The U.S. Embassy Teacher Training Seminar

Kimberley L. Phillips - "African American Oral Traditions and Political Activism: The Struggle for Civil Rights from 1960 to the Election of President Obama"  
In cooperation with LISUM

Venue: U.S. Embassy, entrance Behrenstr. (back entrance)
Date and time: Monday, March 23, 15:00-17:30 

PLEASE TRY TO BE THERE BY 14:30 FOR CHECK-IN. BRING A VALID I.D. FOR IDENTIFICATION AND POSSIBLY LEAVE YOUR CELL PHONE AT HOME. 

Program
15:00: Welcome Remarks

15:15: Lecture and discussion
Kimberley L. Phillips on "African American Oral Traditions and Political Activism: The Struggle for Civil Rights from 1960 to the Election of President Obama." 

Speaker:
Kimberley L. Phillips is dean for educational policy and Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. Her publications include AlabamaNorth: African American Migrants and Working Class Activism (1999) and articles on African American music and religion, women's cultural production, and American cultural politics. Her forthcoming work includes War! What is it Good For?: Black Culture and the U. S. Military; an edited collection of essays, Fight for the Nation: Blacks and the U.S. Military; and a biography of Jimi Hendrix.
She received her B. A. from the University of San Diego and her M.A., Afro-American Studies and Ph.D. (1992), American Studies, from Yale University. She teaches courses on African American and American cultural and social history. Her book, AlabamaNorth: African American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland (University of Illinois Press, 1999), received the Illinois American History Award for the most outstanding book in American History published by the University of Illinois Press in 1999. She is working on an edited collection of essays, Pattin' Juba: Essays in African American Popular Culture, (University of Pennsylvania Press) and a study of African Americans' cultural production about war. She has written articles on African American workers, music, and migration. Her work in public history includes museum exhibits and teacher guides on oral history in the K-12 classroom.

This event is exclusively arranged for Berlin/Brandenburg teachers. Seating is limited. The seminar will be conducted in English.
Registration number: 08L228601
Pl. register via LISUM/TIS Fortbildungsnetzwerk
Deadline: March 19