Black History 360°: The Schomburg's Summer Education Institute 2012

Black History 360°: The Schomburg’s Summer Education Institute 2012

Monday-Saturday, July 23-28, 2012 - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 

The 3rd Annual Schomburg Summer Education Institute will convene for six days to unite educators—school teachers, college faculty, community educators and college students—with premier historians and scholars to explore the history and cultures of African Americans and African peoples throughout the Diaspora.  Join us for dynamic learning experiences—lectures, interactive workshops, curator talks and community walks—that are connected to the Schomburg’s current exhibitions, permanent collections, and vast digital resources.  Educators will gain valuable content knowledge and learn inquiry-based approaches to teaching across the grades using the Schomburg’s rich resources both on-site and online. Curriculum materials will be provided daily including: Primary and secondary resources, exhibition guides, bibliographies, and sample activities.  Come back and visit our Summer Education Institute 2012: Black History 360° webpage at www.schomburgcenter.org\blackhistory360 to receive updates on institute faculty, topics, workshops, hotel & travel information, agenda, etc.

 TO DOWNLOAD A REGISTRATION FORM, CLICK HERE.

 

BLACK HISTORY 360˚: The Schomburg’s Summer Education Institute 2012

Monday - Saturday, July 23-28, 2012

 

AGENDA

(Updated 7/21/12)

Monday, July 23:  Teaching Africa: Past and Present

9:00 am | Langston Hughes Auditorium
Opening Remarks
Deirdre Lynn Hollman, Director of Education & Junior Scholars Program, Schomburg Center

9:15 am | Film | Langston Hughes Auditorium
Wonders of the African World: The Road to Timbuktu (2000) with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Presentation | General Research & Reference Division
Using African Art to Teach History with the Schomburg’s Blondiau Theater-Arts Collection of Primitive African Art and Resources from the Museum for African Art
Roger Arnold, Curatorial Assistant, The Museum for African Art

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch | On Your Own

1:00 pm - 2:30pm | Research Workshop | American Negro Theater
Find It: Africa - Using NYPL’s Free Resources to Advance Learning in Your Classroom
Amanda Salles & Pascale Josephson, Educators, NYPL’s Division of Teaching and Learning
with

Teaching Africa with Digital Schomburg
Dr. Sylviane Diouf, Curator of  Digital Collections, Schomburg Center

2:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Workshop | Scholars Center Conference Room
Teaching Humanity & Captivity with Artifacts from the Slave Trade from the Gene Alexander Peters Collection
Gene Alexander Peters, Founder & President of Sankofa Exhibition Consultants

2:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Film | Langston Hughes Auditorium
This is Nollywood (2007)

4:15 pm - 5:00 pm | Open Dialogue | Langston Hughes Auditorium
The Challenges of Teaching Africa:  What do we still need to know?
Moderator: Deirdre Lynn Hollman, Director of Education, Schomburg Center

Tuesday, July 24:  Civil Rights History

9:00 am - 9:30 am |Gallery Stroll | Main Exhibition Hall
The Photographs of Moneta Sleet, Jr., Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist

9:30 am - 11:00  am | Lecture | Langston Hughes Auditorium
From Emancipation to Equality: Six Degrees of Segregation
Dr. Yohuru R. Williams, Fairfield University

11:00 am - 12:15 pm |Performance | Langston Hughes Auditorium
The Fannie Lou Hamer Story: The Legend and Her Songs on A Rugged Road to Freedom
Written and Performed by Mzuri Moyo

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch | On Your Own

1:00 pm - 3:15pm | Film & Discussion | Langston Hughes Auditorium
Slavery by Another Name (2011) based on the book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to WWII, by Douglas A. Blackmon
Post-Screening Discussion with Sam Pollard, Director

3:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Workshop A | American Negro Theater
Teaching the Emancipation Proclamation - Cold Case Document Analysis Workshop
Dr. Yohuru R. Williams,  Fairfield University

3:30 pm - 4:45 pm |Workshop  B | Photographs & Prints Division
Picturing Reconstruction -  Illustrations from Harper’s Weekly
Mary Yearwood, Curator, Schomburg Center Photographs & Prints Division

Wednesday, July 25:  Race & Social Justice Education

9:15 am - 10:45 am | Lecture | Langston Hughes Auditorium
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America
Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center

11 am - 12:00 pm | Workshop | American Negro Theater
Hip Hop Education
Martha Diaz, Founder & Director, Hip Hop Education Center

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch | On Your Own

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Film | Langston Hughes Auditorium
Precious Knowledge (2011)

3:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Lecture | American Negro Theater
Practice What You Teach: Social Justice Education in the Classroom and the Streets
Bree Picower, Montclair State University

Thursday, July 26:  Harlem Studies

All Day | Table Exhibition | Langston Hughes Lobby
Teaching Harlem Through Children’s & Young Adult Literature
Curated by Deirdre Hollman and Cheryl Sutton

9:15 am - 9:45 am | Presentation | Langston Hughes Auditorium
Blues Boulevard:  Lenox Avenue & 135th Street – Crossroads of Harlem’s History & Culture

Christopher Paul Moore, Historian and Schomburg Research Coordinator

9:45 pm - 10:45 pm | Walking Tour | Harlem Neighborhood
Harlem Renaissance Revival Walking Tour
Christopher Paul Moore, Historian and Schomburg Research Coordinator

9:45 am - 10:45 am | Exhibition Tour | Latimer Edison Gallery
Gordon Parks:  100 Moments

11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Workshop | American Negro Theater
The Art of the Harlem Renaissance
Tammi Lawson, Schomburg Art & Artifacts Division

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch | On Your Own

1:00 pm - 2:45 pm | Panel Discussion | Langston Hughes Auditorium
21st Century Harlem Storytellers with Herb Boyd, Katherine Butler Jones, Willie Perdomo, and Grace Edwards
Herb Boyd, activist, educator and author of The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York’s Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Renaissance Years to the 21st Century.

3:00 pm - 4:45 pm | Lecture and Conversation | American Negro Theater
Afterthoughts about the Harlem Renaissance and Its Scholarship

Dr. David Levering Lewis, New York University

Friday, July 27:  Black Migration/Immigration

9:00 am - 10:15 am | Lecture | Langston Hughes Auditorium
Caribbean Immigrants and the Making of Black America
Dr. Irma Watkins-Owens, Fordham University

10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Workshop A | American Negro Theater
Find It: NYC Immigration - Using NYPL’s Free Resources to Advance Learning in Your Classroom
Amanda Salles & Pascale Josephson, Educators, NYPL’s Division of Teaching and Learning

10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Workshop B | Scholars Center
iGriot: Genealogy Oral History Project of the Junior Scholars Program
Megan Goings, Schomburg Junior Scholars Program Instructor
Deirdre Lynn Hollman, Director of the Schomburg Junior Scholars Program

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch | On Your Own

1pm-2:30pm | Lecture | Langston Hughes Auditorium
Understanding African-American Migration Experience (1450-2000)
Dr. Sylviane Diouf, Schomburg Curator of Digital Collections

3:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Museum Tour | Studio Museum in Harlem
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World
Shanta Scott, Manager of School, Youth & Family Programs, Studio Museum in Harlem
Bianca Mona, School Programs Coordinator, Studio Museum in Harlem

Saturday, July 28:  The African Diaspora & S.T.E.M. - Science, Technology, Engineering & Math

9:15 am - 10:45 am | Lecture | Langston Hughes Auditorium
Urban Science Education for the Hip Hop Generation
Prof. Christopher Emdin, Columbia University

11:00 am - 12:15 pm | Workshop | American Negro Theater
Black Inventors: Crafting Over 200 Years of Success
Keith C. Holmes, Author

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Lunch | On Your Own

1:15 pm | Tour | Lower Manhattan, 290 Broadway (NOTE: Tour Begins at 2pm)
The New York African Burial Ground National Monument
National Park Service

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Film & Discussion | Langston Hughes Auditorium
500 Years Later (2005)
Chronicles the liberation struggle for people of African descent throughout the Diaspora and evolving consciousness of today’s youth generation.

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm |Seminar | American Negro Theater
Samba, Soul and Civil Rights
Maya Cunningham, Founder, Little Lights Arts

3:45 pm - 4:45pm | FREE TIME

 

On Exhibition at the Schomburg:

July Exhibitions:

National Conference of Artists New York (American Negro Theater) Now – December 28, 2012

Gordon Parks: 100 Moments (Latimer/Edison Gallery) July 12, 2012 – December 1, 2012

Moneta Sleet, Jr. Photojournalist (Main) July 20, 2012 – September 8, 2012

Fall Exhibitions:

The Emancipation Proclamation (LH Lobby & Main) September 21-24, 2012

Visualizing Emancipation (Main) October 11, 2012 – March 16, 2013

 

 

Registration Fees:

General: $600 for 6-days; or $125 per day.

College Students & Seniors:  $450 for 6-days; or $75 per day.  (I.D. required)

Payment Options: Checks or Money Orders; Purchase Orders (NYC DOE Vendor ID#1388744001; or Credit Card.

Please Note:  The Schomburg Summer Education Institute is funded solely by registration fees used to pay for event fees, honoraria, program materials and resources.

 

Registration Deadline:

WALK-IN REGISTRATION EXCEPTED EACH DAY OF THE INSTITUTE.

  

For more information:  Contact

Contact: Deirdre Lynn Hollman, MS Ed, Director of Education

Visit:  www.schomburgcenter.org\blackhistory360

Email:  schomburged@nypl.org

Call: (212) 491-2234

Fax: (212) 491-2011

 

What educators have said about last year's Black History 360°:

“I truly enjoyed the entire program and will definitely continue to learn about black history in an effort to have excellent conversations with my students.”

“All the presentations were excellent.  These sessions are a must to everyone who wants to further their education and understanding of American history!”

“In many ways, today’s portion of the Institute achieved an appropriate balance between the scholarly and the lay, between the textual and the oral, and between the public and the institutional.  I see enormous benefit in bringing educators to the Schomburg to educate them about its holdings so that they, in turn, will educate young people (and others).”

“Today blew my mind. Fantastic.  We needed at least 3 more years to unpack half of what we touched on TODAY.”

“I am truly thrilled to be here.  It has been an intellectual & spiritual experience to hear and interact with such amazing people.  I can’t wait to share what I have learned today with my international students in Taiwan.  Thank you so much!”

“The morning session was stimulating, exciting, rich, philosophical, and chock full of empirical data about our history that I can’t wait to spend more time with.”  

“I am grateful to be here, to be in this dialogue, to participate within a community of people grappling with critical issues of our time.  Thank you!”

 

Come back and visit our Summer Education Institute 2012: Black History 360° webpage at www.schomburgcenter.org\blackhistory360 to receive updates on institute faculty, topics, workshops, hotel & travel information, agenda, etc.

 

TO DOWNLOAD A REGISTRATION FORM, CLICK HERE.