Booker T. Washington Symposium

June 4-6, 2006 * Chicago -- > welcome | program | speakers | audio

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PROGRAM Click here for a 20-page full-color program in PDF format
Sunday, June 4, 2006
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.	Registration	Chicago Athletic Association 12 South Michigan Avenue
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.	Cocktail Reception
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.	Opening Banquet Dinner First Keynote Address Anne Wortham, Ph.D. “Fighting Dependency with Virtue: What Advice Would Booker T. Washington Give to the Victims of Hurricane Katrina?” Second Keynote Address Glenn Loury, Ph.D. "What Manner of People Are We? Race and Responsibility in 21st Century America" Booker T. Washington Legacy Prizes presented to: Anne Wortham, Ph.D. Peter Ascoli, Ph.D. Carole Swain, Ph.D.
Monday, June 5, 2006
7:00 - 8:00 a.m.	Registration & Buffet Breakfast	Chicago Athletic Association 12 South Michigan Avenue
8:00 a.m.	Shuttles depart for Arthur Rubloff Building
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.	Opening Remarks Rev. William S. Winston Booker T. Washington and Entrepreneurship	Thorne Auditorium/ Arthur Rubloff Building 375 East Chicago Avenue
9:00 - 10:30 a.m	Panel 1 Booker T. Washington's Legacy Moderator Glenn Loury, Ph.D. Panelists Robert J. Norrell, Ph.D. Marcus D. Pohlmann, Ph.D. Christopher Reed, Ph.D.
10:30 - 12:00 noon	Panel 2 Black Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Moderator John Sibley Butler, Ph.D. Panelists Rev. Hycel Taylor, Ph.D. Charles Horne, Ph.D. Steve Mariotti Gary MacDougal
12:00 noon	Shuttles depart for the Union League Club
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.	Lunch Keynote Address Glenn Loury, Ph.D. "Black Progress: The Washington-DuBois Debate Revisited"	Union League Club 65 West Jackson Boulevard
2:00 p.m.	Shuttles depart for Arthur Rubloff Building
2:30 - 4:30 p.m.	Panel 3 Closing the Academic Achievement Gap Moderator Rev. Kenneth Smith, Ph.D. Panelists William B. Allen, Ph.D. Mark Bauerlein, Ph.D. Peter Ascoli, Ph.D.
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.	Panel 4 - CANCELLED Blacks in the Media: Role Models, News, and Shaping Public Opinion Moderator Roland S. Martin Panelists Clifford Kelly Art Norman
5:45 p.m.	Shuttles depart for DuSable Museum
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.	Cocktail Reception	DuSable Museum of African American History 740 East 56th Place
7:00 - 9:30 p.m.	Dinner Keynote Address Rev. Hycel Taylor, Ph.D. Booker T. Washington and Today's Black Community" Booker T. Washington Legacy Prizes presented to: Margaret Clifford, Ph.D. John Sibley Butler, Ph.D. Glenn Loury, Ph.D.
9:30 p.m.	Shuttles depart for Chicago Athletic Association
Tuesday, June 6, 2006
7:00 - 8:00 a.m.	Registration & Buffet Breakfast	Chicago Athletic Association 12 South Michigan Avenue
8:00 a.m.	Shuttles depart for Arthur Rubloff Building
8:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Panel 5 Left, Right & Black: Where to Go in the Political Arena? Moderator Ralph Conner Panelists Carol Swain, Ph.D. Frank Harold Wilson, Ph.D. Panel Presentation by Frank Harold Wilson Extended Paper by Frank Harold Wilson William Allen, Ph.D. Marcus Pohlman, Ph.D.	Thorne Auditorium/ Arthur Rubloff Building 375 East Chicago Avenue
10:30 - 12:00 noon	Panel 6 Self-Reliance and the Role of Government Moderator William Allen, Ph.D. Panelists Peter W. Schramm, Ph.D. Daryl Scott, Ph.D.
12:00 noon	Shuttles depart for Metropolitan Club
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.	Lunch Keynote Address Steve Mariotti “Entrepreneurship Education for Low-income Minorities: The Living Legacy of Booker T. Washington”	Metropolitan Club Sears Tower 233 South Wacker Drive
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.	Summary Remarks Speakers will be invited to present their thoughts and reactions to presentations made earlier in the symposium.
3:30 p.m.	Shuttles depart for Chicago Athletic Association
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.	Unscheduled Time
5:30 p.m.	Shuttles depart for Navy Pier	Chicago Athletic Association 12 South Michigan Avenue
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.	Board the Spirit of Chicago at Navy Pier	Spirit of Chicago Dock at Navy Pier
7:00 - 10:00 p.m.	Dinner Cruise on Lake Michigan Brief Remarks by hosts and special guests Lee H. Walker Joseph L. Bast Herbert Walberg, Ph.D. Booker T. Washington Legacy Prizes presented to: William Allen, Ph.D. Robert Norrell, Ph.D.
10:15 p.m.	Shuttles depart for Chicago Athletic Association