News and Events
BNEC 2006 Events
Friday Events:
Session #1: Black Culture in Northern New England
Session #2: Black Life in Northern New England
Session #3: Keynote Address & Opening Reception
Saturday Events:
Session #1: Black Presence in 19th Century Northern New England
Session #2: Black History in New England Museums, Historical Societies, and Communities
Session #3: Black Family History and Genealogy
Session #4: Civil Rights and Current Issues
Session #5: Tour of Historic Black Sites/ Strawbery Banke Museum/ Portsmouth, NH
News and Events
Reception for Too Long in the Shadows: The Black Presence in New Hampshire
Location: Milne Special Collections and Archives, Level 1, Dimond Library
Time: Friday, March 30th at 4 p.m.
Several UNH authors are featured in this special issue of Historical New Hampshire, by the New Hampshire Historical Society, including Professor Emeritus Robert B. Dishman, Professor W. Jeffrey Bolster, Professor Emerita Barbara A. White, Jody R. Fernald, Valerie Cunningham, and Professor David H. Watters.
The reception will also mark the donation of the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail archives to UNH.
Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail Symposium
Location: Levinison Room of Portsmouth Public Library.
Time: Saturday, April 28th from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
This year's event, "The Civil Rights Movement in New Hampshire" will feature a distinguished keynote speaker and presentations in the morning, followed by an afternoon interviewing workshop with New Hampshire civil rights movement leaders for teachers and other interested members of the public.
Heritage New Hampshire Lecture Series: Professor Julie Ellison, Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a national consortium of universities and colleges committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design.
Location: TBA
Time: April 30th, 12p.m.-3p.m.
Her lecture on Imagining New Hampshire will be the occasion for a gathering of UNH faculty, students, historical society and museum staff, and state officials in historical and cultural preservation and tourism. Look for announcements for the location of the event later in the semester.
Black New England Conference 2007: Visible Lives, Remembered Places
Location:UNH
Dates: June 1-2, 2007.
Building on the success of the 2006 conference and with additional funding from a President's Excellence Award, the conference will broaden its subject to include presentations about African American life, history, and culture in all the New England states. Keynote speakers will include Professor James Campbell, Brown University, and Professor Joanne Pope Melish, University of Kentucky. There will be sessions on Black Life in New England, Black Cultural Expressions in New England, Social Memories, Memorials, and Trails, Black New England and Africa, Black New England and the Caribbean, and a teachers workshop on researching and teaching local Black History. The teacher workshop will showcase research projects by JerriAnne Boggis, Valerie Cunningham, and David Watters whose work was funded by the UNH President's Excellence Award. For further information about the conference, contact conference cochair, JerriAnne Boggis (JerriAnne.Boggis@unh.edu ).
