This day-long symposium features Bowdoin faculty from Gender and Women’s Studies and Africana Studies in addition to four invited scholars: Aisha Finch (UCLA), Jessica Millward (UC Irvine), Salamishah Tillet (Penn) and Bettye Collier-Thomas (Temple). The presenters will discuss their work and facilitate discussion among all of the symposium’s participants.

The day-long event will be followed by a keynote address by Prof. Collier-Thomas, in celebration of the release of her highly acclaimed Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion. Professor of History and Director of the Temple University Center for African American History and Culture, Bettye Collier-Thomas was also the founding Executive Director of the Bethune Museum-Archives Inc., National Historic Site, which was recently incorporated into the National Park System. In this position, she developed the nation's first museum and archives for Black women's history.

Please contact Anne Clifford at acliffor@bowdoin.edu to register for the symposium

Friday March 4, 2011 Bowdoin College Lancaster Lounge in Moulton Union

8:30 – 9:00 Coffee and Registration

9:00 – 10:45 1st session - Antebellum through the Civil War
Aisha Finch
Jessica Millward
Jessica Johnson

11:00 – 12:45 2nd session – The Twentieth Century
Bettye Collier-Thomas
Brian Purnell
Jennifer Scanlon

1:00 – 2:15 Lunch through the line

2:30 – 4:00 3rd session – Academic Work and Activism – Going Forward
Salamishah Tillet
Judith Casselberry

5:00 – 6:30 Dinner on your own

7:00 – 8:30 Keynote Address by Bettye Collier-Thomas
"Make Us a Power": Religious Masculinity and Black Women's Resistance
Kresge Auditorium in the Visual Arts Center

8:30 – 9:30 Reception and book signing outside of Kresge Auditorium

Cosponsored by Gender and Women’s Studies and Africana Studies, with support from the Edith Lansing Koon Sills Lecture Fund, the Women’s Resource Center, and the History Department