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Black Women in the Ivory Tower:
Research & Praxis
March 5-6, 2009
The Rutgers University Center for Race and Ethnicity, Institute for Research on Women, and Department of History announce a multi-disciplinary conference on African American Women in the Academy.
Admission is free and open to the public. For regisration and more information, please go to www.blackwomenintheivorytower.com. Any e-mail inquiries may be sent to ivorytower2009@gmail.com.
Keynote Speakers: Evelynn Hammonds, Dean of Harvard College and Cathy Cohen, Deputy Provost of Graduate Education, University of Chicago. Please visit the website to see a full list of the speakers and sessions.
The ABWH 2008 Annual luncheon will take place on Saturday, October 4, 2008 at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. The Luncheon Theme is Telling Histories: Black Women in the Ivory Tower which will be moderated by Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Professor Emerita from Morgan State University and Ula Taylor, Associate Professor, African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Copies of Deborah Gray-White’s Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (Gender and American Culture) The University of North Carolina Press (March 25, 2008). Also ABWH’s own Emerging Voices and Paradigms will be available for purchase and signing. Feel free to contact Dr. Jones for further elaboration regarding this ABWH initiative.
