We encourage college and university instructors, independent scholars, elementary and secondary school teachers, visual and performing artists, and others to submit a 250-word proposal summarizing a 20-minute individual presentation or 60-minute panel presentation. We welcome program ideas based on the following or related themes:

• "Writing, Teaching, and Performing Poetry in the 21st Century"
• "Migration and the Politics of Movement in African American Life"
• "African Americans and Public Education in the Urban North"
• "From John Mercer Langston to James Mercer Langston Hughes: The Evolution of African American Social Thought in Ohio (c.1850-1950)"
• "Rethinking "the Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (Langston Hughes, 1926)
• "Hughes and Transnational Connections"
• "Art, Social Settlements, and the History of Karamu House"
• "The Rise of the City in the Era of Jim Crow"
• "The Politics of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality"
• "When Mass and Class Meet: Elite African Americans and Cultural and Social Policy-Making"
• "Artists and Patrons: Producing 'Culture' in the Interwar Period"