CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

THURSDAY/JULY 21

5:30pm-8:00pm WELCOMING RECEPTION
The Society will welcome New York book editors, including many with whom Toni Morrison worked at Random House as well as editors from Knopf, Penguin, Plume and publishing houses in New York City.

FRIDAY/JULY 22

Breakfast on your own (Available in hotel)
9:00am-11:00am CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
11:00am-12:30pm OPENING OF SEVENTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE AND TMS BUSINESS MEETING
Opening Remarks, Adrienne Lanier Seward and Carolyn Denard, Conference Co-Chairs Business Meeting–Evelyn Schreiber, Society President, presiding
12:30pm-2:00pm OPENING PLENARY
Keynote Address: Dana Williams, Professor of English, Howard University. “Toni Morrison and Her Role as Editor” (Boxed lunches provided)
2:00pm-2:30pm Break
2:30pm-4:00pm PLENARY PANEL I
“Authors Toni Morrison Edited”
Panelists: Angela Davis (Emerita/University of California-Santa Cruz), John McCluskey (Emeritus/Indiana University-Bloomington), Quincy Troupe (Emeritus/University of California-San Diego)
4:00pm-5:15pm DISCUSSION ROUNDTABLES – SESSION I
Topic: “Culture, Advocacy, Critique: Negotiating the Relationship Between Authors and Editors”
5:15pm-5:30pm Break
5:30pm-6:30pm RECONVENE FOR DISCUSSION OF SESSION I ROUNDTABLES
6:30pm Dinner on your own

SATURDAY/JULY 23

8:30am-9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00am-10:30am PLENARY PANEL II
“Toni Morrison As Author and Editor: Her Impact and Influence”
Panelists: Edwidge Danticat (Writer), Tayari Jones (Rutgers University-Newark College of Arts and Sciences)
10:30am-11:30am DISCUSSION ROUNDTABLES – SESSION II
Topic: “Toni Morrison: Her Impact and Influence in the Publishing World”
11:30-12:15 RECONVENE FOR DISCUSSION OF SESSION II ROUNDTABLES
12:30pm-2:00pm AUTHORS’ AND EDITORS’ LUNCHEON
Keynote Address: Chris Jackson, Executive Editor, Spiegel and Grau
2:30pm-4:00pm PLENARY PANEL III
“The Origin and Meaning of The Black Book”
Panelists: Howard Rambsy (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville) and Cheryl Wall (Rutgers University)
4:00pm-5:00pm DISCUSSION ROUNDTABLES – SESSION III
Topic: “The Black Book and Documenting Black History in the Age of Digital Media”
5:00pm-6:00pm RECONVENE FOR DISCUSSION OF SESSION III ROUNDTABLES
7:30pm-10:00pm 85th BIRTHDAY GALA RECEPTION AND BANQUET

SUNDAY/JULY 24

8:30am-9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00am-10:00am PLENARY SESSION IV
“Publishing Today: Its Challenges to Black Writers”
Panelists: John McCluskey (Emeritus/Indiana University-Bloomington)/Chair, Paula Giddings (Smith College), Kiese Laymon (Vassar College), Martha Southgate (Vermont College of Fine Arts), Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah (Essayist and Critic)
10:30am–11:30am DISCUSSION ROUNDTABLES – SESSION IV
Topic: “Publishing Challenges to Black Writers and Their Responses”
11:30-12:15pm RECONVENE FOR DISCUSSION OF SESSION IV ROUNDTABLES
12:15pm-1:00pm CLOSING PLENARY (Boxed lunches provided)
1:00pm-2:00pm Hotel Check-Out
2:00pm Board Buses to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
3:00pm Bench Placement at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
4:30pm Buses return to hotel