Humanities Council Calendar

10:00-11:00AM -

11:00-11:50AM -

Keynote Address, Ray Arsenault, PhD., Historian University of South Florida - The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial and the Concert that Awakened America

12:00-1:00PM -

Lunch Session: All That Jazz, Melodious Diplomacy - Panelists Kevin Strait, Ph.D., Panel Chair & Project Historian, National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Smithsonian Institution; Joshua Sternfeld, Ph.D., Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities; Michelle G. Los Banos-Jardina, Cultural Programs Deputy Division Chief, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

1:15-2:15PM -

Panel Discussion: Chocolate City Sounds: The Politics of Go-Go, Calypso, Funk and Hip-Hop From New Orleans to the Bronx, Port of Spain to Washington, D.C., black music genres express the political structures that gave birth to them - Panelists Natalie Hopkinson, Ph.D., Panel Chair & Author of Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City; David Boothman, Celebrated Artist/Musician and Educator. Founder CAJE, Caribbean Art Jazz Ensemble and Caribbean Arts Central; DJ Soul Sister, A self-proclaimed "DJ Artist" and known worldwide as the "Queen of Rare Groove" has hosted "Soul Power" and "Right on Party Situations" for WWOZ-FM, New Orleans for nearly two decades; William E. Smith,Ph.D., Jazz Musician and Hip-Hop Ethnographer.