Complete symposium program schedule here.

To mark the end of the inaugural year of the FHI's HBCU Faculty Fellowship Program - and inspired by the vision and legacy of John Hope Franklin - this one-day symposium and workshop will bring together faculty, students, and administrators from Duke and local area HBCUs to explore ways of creating institutional collaborations around the arts and the humanities, and across older historical divisions in the region and beyond. The symposium will feature lectures by noted historians Darlene Clark Hine and Evelyn Higginbotham (editor of the revised From Slavery the Freedom) on the legacy of John Hope Franklin, and sessions organized by our current HBCU Faculty Fellows Jelani Favors and Dana Williams. Two exhibits will be on view: a retrospective by Fatimah Tuggar and editions/translations of From Slavery to Freedom. This symposium is presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute and John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture at the Duke University Libraries.