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Black Historians and the Writing of Historyin the 19th and early 20th centuriesWhat Legacy?Thursday 12 June 2014: 9:00-6:00Friday 13 June 2014: 9:00-6:30University Paris DiderotRoom Pierre Albouy (685 C)(Grands Moulins de Paris, C Wing, 6th floor)International ConferenceProject Writing History from the Margins (Sorbonne Paris Cité) -----------------------------Thursday 12 June 20149:00       Registration9:30       Opening address: François Brunet (University Paris Diderot)10:00    Plenary session: Pero Dagbovie (Michigan State University)From the Margins to the Mainstream: Reflections on a Century of the African American Historical Enterprise11:00    Coffee break11:30    Writing the History of the DiasporaChair: Claire Bourhis-Mariotti (University of Cergy-Pontoise)Patrick Rael (Bowdoin College): Slave Resistance and Antislavery Ideology: The Haitian Revolution and the Coming of the Civil WarViolet M. Showers Johnson (Texas A&#38;M University): Writing Afro-Caribbean History into African American History in the 1920s and 1930s: The Claims, the Rows and the LegacyMichael Benjamin (Armstrong Atlantic State University): From the Margins: Self-Taught Black Historians and the Project to Publish a Diasporic Encyclopedia1:00       Lunch2:30       Alternative Sources: Art(s) and HistoryChair: Claudine Raynaud (University Montpellier 3)James Smalls (University of Maryland): Freeman Murray and the Art of Social JusticeMary Ann Calo (Colgate University): Art History, Racial Art Theory and Adult Education: Remembering Alain Locke’s Negro Art: Past and Present (1936)Adena Spingarn (Stanford University): James Weldon Johnson’s Black Manhattan and the Popular Stages of History4:00       Coffee break4:30       Historians or “Leaders of the Race”       Chair: Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry (University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3)Nicole Topich (Harvard University): Black Histories and Historians in PetitionsZachery Williams (University of Akron): From the Bottom to the Top: Howard University Historians and Policy History in the United StatesGlenn Jordan (University of South Wales): A Vindicationalist Voice: George Washington Williams and History From the Margins6:00       Cocktail party-----------------------------Friday 13 June 20149:00       Pre-session coffee9:30       Plenary session: Claire Parfait (University Paris 13)Early African American Historians: a Book History Perspective10:30    Coffee break11:30    The Writing of African American History: the Construction of Specific Objects and MethodsChair: Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (University Paris Diderot)John Ernest (University of Delaware): The Negro in the American Rebellion: William Wells Brown and the Design of African American HistoryStephen G. Hall (Alcorn State University): One Hundred Years Before Woodson: Assessing the Development of African American History in the 19th Century12:00    Race and History, Race in HistoryChair: Chris Weedon (Cardiff University)Martha S. Jones (University of Michigan): Who Were the “Negro Historians”?: Reading William Yates on Race and CitizenshipNicolas Martin-Breteau (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales): Historian of Himself, Historian of His Race: W. E. B. Du Bois and the History of Race Oppression in the U.S.1:00       Lunch2:30       Incorporating Slavery into the Historical NarrativeChair: Myriam Cottias (CNRS, CIRESC)Clare Corbould (Monash University): Talking and Writing about Slavery in the Interwar Years, and the Origins of American Social HistoryKate Masur (Northwestern University): “The Colored Side of Lincolniana”: John E. Washington and the Black History of the Lincoln Presidency3:30     Taking up the Challenge: Publishing African American Historical WorksChair: Claire Parfait (University Paris 13)Cheryl Knott (University of Arizona): Merl R. Eppse and the Publication of The Negro, Too, in American HistoryAaron Pride (Kent State University): Selling The Souls of Black Folk: The Legacy and Tradition of the Trotter Family in the African American Historical Enterprise4:30       Coffee break5:00       Roundtable with all the participants: Black Historians: What Legacy?6:00       Closing address: Pap Ndiaye (Sciences Po Paris)