CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
| 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. | |
| 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) |
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| 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 |
| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
| 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) |
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| 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 |