Please save the date of Thursday, July 11 for the next TRLN Annual Meeting! After having hosted the 2018 Annual Meeting at the Durham Convention Center, this year we’ll be returning to the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill, NC.
We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Louise Bernard, founding Director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. Dr. Bernard was formerly Director of Exhibitions at the New York Public Library. As a Senior Content Developer and Interpretive Planner in the New York office of the museum design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates, she worked on the design team that developed the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, along with other international projects. She previously served as Curator of Prose and Drama for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, and as Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University. She received her Ph.D. in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale, and her current research engages with the literary archive, material culture, museology, public history, and interpretive planning and design. She is a scholarly advisor to the International African American Museum in Charleston, SC, and sits on the Board of the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association.
A lunchtime program and other details, including registration and the call for proposals, will be announced in the coming months.
Please mark your calendars and plan to join us at the Friday Center on July 11!
Questions? Contact Events@trln.org.