Members of the Department of History, Geography, and Economics would like to welcome you to our spring symposium celebrating the life and works of Lillian B. Horace and her contemporaries.  Lillian Horace bears the unique distinction as Texas's earliest known African American woman novelist, diarist, and biographer, and the first African American woman writer to author a utopian novel before 1950. 

Horace featured second from left with members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority

The symposium will be held in the Barbara Jordan Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs and is open to the public.   Registration is required.  To help us serve you best, please register by February 27, 2009, 11:55PM; use the password "fabulous1" at the following link:   HORACE.  Registration fees and luncheon tickets are nonrefundable after February 27, 2009, 11:55PM.   Please see the program of events printed below.

Friday, March 6, 2009

• 8:00-10:50AM:  On-site Symposium Registration
• 11:00-11:50 PM:  Opening Session~Keynote Address by Nikki  Brown
• Lunch:  A Culinary Tribute to Horace, the Preacher’s Wife
• 1:00-1:50PM:  Session 1:     Bruce Glasrud, “She was Not the Only One:  Lillian B. Horace and Her Contemporary (Southwestern) Female Authors”
• 2:00-2:50PM:    Session 2:  Yvonne Davis Frear, “Lillian B. Horace:  Early Maverick of “the Cause”:  Interpretations of African American Social Consciousness in History and Literary Accounts” 
• 3:00-3:50PM:    Session 3:   Angela Boswell, “The Double Burden:  Gender and Race Consciousness in the Writings of Lillian B. Horace” 
• 4:00-4:50 PM:    An Artistic Tribute to Horace

Saturday, March 7,  2009

• 8:00-8:50AM:    On-site Symposium Registration
• 9:00-9:50AM:  Session 4:  Alisha Knight, “To Be a Publisher:  Lillian Jones Horace and the Dotson-Jones Printing Company”
• 10:00-10:50AM:   Session 5:  Bryan Jack, “Confronting the ‘Other Side’: Everyday Resistance in the Novels of Lillian B. Horace”
• 11:00-11:50:  Session 6:   Bernadette Pruitt, “‘Beautiful People in the Era of Lillian Horace:  Agency, Work, the Great Migration to Houston, Texas, and the Forging of a Civil Rights Tradition, 1900-1941″
• Lunch:  A Culinary Tribute to Horace, the Woman on the Move
• 1:00-1:50PM:  Lillian B. Horace Awards Ceremony, with closing remarks by Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, “Lillian Bertha Jones Horace:  The Writer and Her Road to Recovery”

We look forward to seeing you!

Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Texas Southern University; Email:  kossie_kl@tsu.edu

*This program is sponsored in part by a Faculty Enhancement Grant from Texas Southern University.