Conference Schedule
Thursday, June 26, 2003
Opening Dinner, 7:00 PM
Keynote Address:
Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
Strategies for the Black Church in the Current Policy Environment
Dinner is located at Ida Noyes Hall, 1st Floor Library
Friday, June 27, 2003
All panels are held at 5733 South University Avenue
Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Contours of Black Religious Thought and African American Political Practice
Dr. Fredrick Harris
Department of Political Science
Rochester University
Dr. Alton Pollard
Director Black Church Studies
Candler School Of Theology
Emory University
Dr. Blair L.M. Kelley
Department of History
North Carolina State University
Dr. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
John D. MacArthur Professor
Sociology and African-American Studies
Colby College
Friday, June 27, 2003
10:45AM-12:15PM
Housing and Health: The Black Church and the Provision of Social Goods
Dr. Forrest Harris
Kelly Miller Smith Institute on
Black Church Studies
Vanderbilt University Divinity School
Reverend Alma Crawford
The Church of the Open Door
Chicago, Illinois
Chaplain Claudia Highbaugh
Divinity School
Harvard University
Dr. Andrew Billingsley
Institute for Families in Society
University of South Carolina
Friday, June 27, 2003
2:00PM-3:30PM
Anti-Violence Initiatives: Black Religion, Prison Policy, and Anti-Violence
Mark Scott, Executive Director
National Ten-Point Leadership Foundation
Boston, MA 02124
Dr. Beth Richie
Director, African American Studies
University of Illinois-Chicago
Reverend Carl W. Kenney
Compassion Ministries
Durham, North Carolina
Friday, June 27, 2003
3:30PM-5:30PM
Tour of Chicago's South and West Sides Sites of African American Religious Interest
Led by Dr. William Samuels
Friday, June 27, 2003
Dinner 6:00 PM
Keynote Address:
Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas
Professor of Religion
Goucher College
Womanist Reflections on the Meanings of Current U.S. Policy
Dinner is located at Ida Noyes Hall, 1st Floor Library
Saturday, June 28, 2003
All panels are held at 5733 South University Avenue
Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
9:00AM-10:30AM
Black Mega Churches and the Possibility of Social Action
Dr. Shayne Lee
Department Sociology
University of Houston.
Dr. R. Drew Smith
Project Director
Public Influences of African-American Churches Project
Leadership Center at Morehouse College
Dr. Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs
Political Science
Hood College
Saturday, June 28, 2003
10:45AM-12:15PM
Black Faith in a Time of War: Lessons of the War on Iraq for Black Faith Practices
Sister Jamie T. Phelps, O.P., Ph.D.
Director and Professor of Systematic Theology
Institute for Black Catholic Studies
Xavier University of Louisiana
Reverend Michael L Pfleger
Pastor
Faith Community of St. Sabina
