November 7th, Sciences Po Lille, along with the US embassy in Paris, will organize the following conference:
 
National Museum of African American History and Culture, the reasons for success - How to show a painful history
 
The conference will be given by John W. Franklin:
 
John W. Franklin is Senior Manager in the Office of External Affairs, at the Smithsonian’s 19th museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, has worked on African American, African and African Diaspora programs for the past 30 years at the Smithsonian. Initially, he served as researcher and French language interpreter for the Smithsonian’s African Diaspora program of the 1976 Bicentennial Folklife Festival while living and teaching English in Dakar, Senegal. Franklin developed symposia and seminars for the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies from 1987-1992. At the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage he curated Smithsonian Folklife Festival programs on the Bahamas (1994), Cape Verdean Culture (1995), Washington, D.C. (2000) and Mali (2003). Franklin served on the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture from 1998 to 2008 and the board of the Reginald Lewis Maryland Museum of African American History and Culture from 2000 to 2009.   He served on the Board of Governors of the Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies from 2005-2011. He served on the Washington, D.C. Commission on African American Affairs from 2013-2016. He currently serves on the D.C. Commission on Emancipation. He is a member of the Community Advisory Board of Howard University’s Public Television Station, WHUT. He edited, My Life and an Era: the Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin with his father, John Hope Franklin.
 
It will be held in room 0.15 (La Boétie), from 6.00 pm until 8.00 pm