Graduate History Association Hosts Power & Struggle Conference

Image of poster detailing keynote address.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