Audio recordings and transcripts

DAY 1

1:00-1:15 Welcome & Opening Remarks

Sarah Thomas, Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian, Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty and Arts and Sciences

1:15-2:45 The Past is Present | Keynote Conversation

Craig Wilder, Barton L. Weller Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Chair of Women's Research & Resource Centers, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies, Spelman College

3:00-4:30 Scholars Report on Research Experience | Panel Discussion

Moderator: A'lelia Bundles, journalist and author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

Garrett Felber, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi and Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University
Valerie Boyd, Charlayne Hunter-Gault Professor of Journalism and Director of MFA Program in Narrative Nonfiction, University of Georgia; author of Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Anastasia Curwood, Associate Professor, Director, African American & Africana Studies, University of Kentucky

4:30-5:00 Questions & Answers

9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks

Jane Kamensky, Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Professor of History, Harvard University

9:15-10:30 The Past and Present in the Future | Keynote Conversation

Brewster Kahle, Founder of the Internet Archive
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Harvard University

10:45-12:30 Black Research Collections: Successes and Challenges | Panel Presentation

Moderator: Kenvi Phillips, Curator for Race & Ethnicity, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University

Mary F. Yearwood, Director of Collections and Information Services, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
Lopez D. Matthews, Digital Production Librarian, Howard University Libraries & the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Randall Burkett, Curator of African American Collections, Rose Library, Emory University
Kara Tucina Olidge, Executive Director, Amistad Research Center
Dino Robinson, Production Manager, Northwestern University Press, Founder, Shorefront Legacy Center

1:30-3:30 Why Partner? | Interactive Session

Moderator: Reginald Chapple, Chief, Office of Partnerships and Philanthropy, National Parks Service

Collaboration: Perspectives from Library Directors

Monika Rhue, Director of Library Services at Johnson C. Smith University; Board Chair, HBCU Library Alliance
Brenda Johnson, Library Director & University Librarian, University of Chicago Library

A Pilot Collaboration between Spelman College Archives & Schlesinger Library

Amanda Strauss, Manager for Special Projects & Digital Services, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Holly Smith, College Archivist, Spelman College

Technology & Collaboration

Cecily Marcus, Principal Investigator of Umbra Search, Givens Collection of African American Literature Curator, University of Minnesota Libraries
Trevor James Bond, Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal, Co-Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation and the Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at the Washington State University Libraries

3:30-4:00 Wrap-up & Closing Remarks

Julieanna Richardson, Founder and Executive Director of The History Makers
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School