All sessions are free and open to the public.
Marable, history and political science professor and founding director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, will deliver the keynote address at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16, in Macalester's Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel. A reception and book signing follows. The conference also features a lecture by cultural critic Troupe at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, at the Cowles Auditorium of the Hubert Humphrey Center at the University of Minnesota, West Bank. Marable is a lecturer and commentator on the politics of history and race in America. A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, a new quarterly journal that examines theoretical issues within Black America, Africa and the Caribbean.