Harvard University
Tsai Auditorium S010, CGIS South
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts
December 14-16, 2023
Please join us for a celebration in honor of Marcyliena H. Morgan, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, and Founding Director of the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute.
Colleagues, activists, artists, and educators will come together in seven panels across three days to recognize the multiple contributions Professor Morgan has made as a linguistic anthropologist, an ethnographer, and an architect and agent of change in the academy, capturing the spirit of creativity, positivity, Black achievement and expression, art, music, youth, social change and social justice that are manifest in her scholarship and have been of critical importance to all of her work.
The conference is free and open to the public. A recording will be made available at youtube.com/hutchinscenter.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14
Welcome | 5:00 PM
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard
The Black Woman Out Front | 5:30 PM
Moderator: Valerie Smith, President, Swarthmore College
Panelists: Stella Dadzie, Founder, Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent, UK
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Jamaica Kincaid, Professor of African and African American Studies
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15
Bringing a Qualitative Lens to Linguistic and Minoritized Communities | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Moderator: Prudence L. Carter, Sarah and Joseph Jr. Dowling Professor of Sociology at Brown University
Panelists: Marla F. Frederick, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University; incoming Dean, Harvard Divinity School
Kris D. Gutiérrez, Carol Liu Distinguished Professor, Berkeley School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Sandra Susan Smith, Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice, Harvard Kennedy School; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute; Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Women of Color Speaking, in Life and the Academy | 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Moderator: John Baugh, Margaret Bush Wilson Distinguished University Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Panelists: Dorinne Kondo, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Professor of Anthropology University of Southern California
Sonja Lanehart, Professor of Linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Vice Chancellor of Graduate Studies Emerita, Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles
Hiphop as Cultural Force and Scholarly Mission | 2:00 PM-3:30 PM
Moderator: Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard University
Panelists: Christopher Emdin, Maxine Greene Chair for Distinguished Contributions to Education at Teachers College, Columbia University
Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music, supported by the Time Warner Endowment and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Giuseppe “u.net” Pipitone, independent scholar, Italy
9th Wonder, Grammy-award winning producer and DJ and educator
Reimagining Spaces for Black Creative Expression | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Moderator: Charla Jones, Founder and CEO, eu2be
Panelists: Ben Caldwell, Founder, KAOS Network, Los Angeles
Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
Lisa B. Thompson, Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies and College of Liberal Arts’ Advisor to the Dean for Faculty Mentoring & Support, University of Texas at Austin
Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16
Legacy of the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Moderator: Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor and Chair of African & African American Studies, Professor of English, Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Panelists: Bakari Kitwana, 2023-24 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Buffalo
Imani Perry, Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Brandon Terry, John L. Loeb Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of African & African American Studies, Harvard University
Marcyliena Morgan as Mentor, Builder, Inspiration | 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Moderator: Alvin B. Carter III, Brown Rudnick
Panelists: Dionne Bennett, Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department, CUNY
Nicole Persley Hodges, Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, and Professor of American Studies, and African & African American Studies, University of Kansas
Dawn-Elissa Fischer, Professor of Anthropology, San Francisco State University
C. Keith Harrison, Professor for the DeVos Sport Business Management Graduate Program, University of Central Florida
Closing Remarks | 12:30 PM-1:00 PM
Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Professor of Urban Planning and Chicana/o Studies and Interim Dean, Division of Social Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
Claude Steele, I. James Quillen Endowed Dean, Emeritus, Stanford University School of Education, and Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Stanford University