Jointly sponsored by New Trier High School, Kenwood Academy, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Urban-Suburban Northwestern Consortium

The 4th R: Confronting the Issue of Race in the American Studies Curriculum and Classroom

Friday, February 16, 2001
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago Circle Center

Saturday, February 17, 2001
Kenwood Academy
5015 Blackstone Ave.
Chicago

At the University of Illinois at Chicago:

Registration, 8:00am.

9:00am
Keynote Address: Professor Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Navigating the Multicultural Minefield: How Teachers and Educators Can Make Diversity Meaningful”

Workshops:

10:10am
Pat Baccellieri, Chicago Program Director, Facing History and Ourselves
“Intellectual Roots of Racism: The Eugenics Movement”

Jeanne Polk Barr, Francis Parker School
“Looking into A Different Mirror: Using Ronald Takaki’s History of Multicultural America in the American Studies Classroom” (preregistration required)

“Reflecting on Race: A dialogue with Chicago area High School Seniors”

11:20am
James Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Teaching the Slave Narrative”

Lavonne Ruoff, D’Arcy McNickel Center for American Indian History, and Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Contemporary Native American Literature”

“Asian Americans in the High School Classroom: Reflections by University of Illinois at Chicago Students”

12:30pm
Luncheon and Poetry Reading by Duriel Harris and Sterling Plumpp. Plenary Session:
Professor Lois Rudnick, University of Massachusetts at Boston
Professor Gerald Graff, University of Illinois at Chicago

“Teaching Controversial Literature in Context: The Case of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

2:30pm
Visits to UIC’s Hull House, Latino Cultural Center, African American Cultural Center, and “Virtual Harlem”

At Kenwood Academy:

10:00am:

Professor Melissa Harris Lacewell, University of Chicago
Elizabeth Kirby, Kenwood Academy

“High School/University Collaboration: Junior Scholars Project 2000”

11:00am:

Teacher Panel Moderated by Professor Danielle Taylor Guthrie, Indiana University Northwest and remarks by Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago

“Ethnicity and Identity in the Teaching of American Studies"

Costs:

Friday only - $50
Saturday only - $10
Friday and Saturday - $55

For registration information, contact James Hall at the phone number or e-mail address below.