The University of Alabama Graduate History Association will host its annual Power and Struggle Conference on October 5 and 6, 2018.
This year’s keynote speaker is former Bankhead Fellow and current The Ohio State University Associate Professor of History Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt (2009). Jeffries will speak at 7:00 pm, Friday, October 5, 2018, at Smith Hall on The University of Alabama campus. The Charles G. Summersell Memorial Fund will sponsor a dinner for attendees.
The conference continues the following day at ten Hoor Hall. A detailed program of events is available here.
Registration & Breakfast | 08:00 am – 09:00 am |
Session 1 | 09:00 am – 10:20 am |
Break | 10:20 am – 10:30 am |
Session 2 | 10:30 am – 11:50 am |
Lunch Meal Provided by the Summersell Center for the Study of the South |
11:50 am – 1:30 pm |
Session 3 | 01:30 pm – 02:50 pm |
Break | 02:50 pm – 03:00 pm |
Session 4 | 03:00 pm – 04:20 pm |