Thursday, October 1

3 p.m.
Sound: Print: Record: African American Legacies exhibition tour led by co-curators Dr. Charles Carson and Dr. Julie McGee. University Museums, Mechanical Hall Gallery.

5 - 6 p.m.
Welcome and Introduction: Dr. Patrick Harker, President, University of Delaware
Keynote address, Ned Sublette, musician and musicologist
Gore Hall, Roselle Center for the Arts.

8 p.m.
Opening night performances featuring MR Daniel, Tracie Morris and the UD Department of Music. Gore Hall, Roselle Center Arts.

Friday, October 2
Gore Hall, Louise and David Roselle Center for Arts

8 - 8:50 a.m. - Registration

8:55 a.m. - Welcome, George Watson, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

9 - 10:30 a.m.

“Fixing a Legacy”: Black Music and History.

• Kandia Crazy Horse, music writer and editor, Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies, Princeton University
• Dr. Jason King, Associate Professor and Artistic Director of the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, NYU
• Harry Weinger, Vice President, Artists & Repertoire, Universal Music Enterprises.

10:30-11 a.m. – Break

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Sound/Record

• Ned Sublette, musician and musicologist
  
• Tim Brooks, author, music historian, and scholar of the recording industry
• Dr. Karl Hagstrom Miller, Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and Music, University of Texas, Austin.

12:30 - 1:30 p.m. – Break

1:30 - 3 p.m.

Art/Music/Art

• John Dowell, Professor of Printmaking, The Tyler School of Art, Temple University
• Dr. MR Daniel, interdisciplinary artist and scholar, Princeton University
• Dr. Tracie Morris, interdisciplinary poet and scholar, Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute.
• George E. Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, and the Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University.

3 - 3:30 p.m. – Break

3:30 - 5 p.m.– Plenary session

• Moderator: Dr. Nancy Weiss Hanrahan, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Women and Gender Studies, George Mason University

5- 6 p.m. – Closing reception

OVENIGHT ACCOMODATIONS

Symposium attendees who travel from out of state will be able to reserve rooms at the Courtyard Marriott on the campus of the University of Delaware at a special rate until August 30, 2009.

BOTH EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For more information or to register in advance please contact Peggy Lea (302) 831 8037 or universitymuseums@udel.edu or www.udel.edu/museums/spr

This program is partially funded by a grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  
Additional support comes from College of Arts and Sciences, the Paul R. Jones Initiative, Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events and the Department of Art Conservation.