Friday, September 12, 2025

9:00 AM // Registration Open 

Ingram Hall Lobby

9:30 AM // Breakfast & Morning Activities (on your own)

• Viewing of Lateef’s visual art (Vanderbilt University Art Gallery)
• Screening of “Brother Yusef” (Ingram Hall)
• Exhibits from the Yusef Lateef Collection (Ingram Hall Lobby and Wilson Music Library)

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM // Opening Convocation/Panel, “The Life and Artistry of Yusef Lateef”

• Participants: Ralph Jones, Alex Marcelo, Sonny Rollins (via phone)
• Moderator: Ayesha Lateef; Charlie Apicella

3:00 - 4:45 PM // Breakout sessions 

• Visual Art (Chair, Alhena Katsof)
• Poetry (Chair, Anthony Reed)
• Intersection of Muslim identity and creativity (Chair, LuFuki)

Ingram Hall Lobby

5:00 PM – 7:30 PM // Dinner (on your own)

7:30 PM // Recital in Turner Hall (with performer commentary)

• Blair Students, Faculty, and Guests recital
  Ellen Hummel (oboe), Brian Utley (saxophone), Jared Hauser (oboe), Molly Barth (flute), Blair student jazz combos, Blair Big Band, The BlueNote Combo
• Moderator: Doug Shadle

Saturday, September 13, 2025

8:30 AM // Welcome 

Ingram Hall

9:00 AM - 11:30 AM // Session, “New Directions in Yusef Lateef Studies” (scholarship, pedagogy, creative practice) 

• Presenters: Marc Hannaford, Ingrid Monson, Mark Lomanno
• Moderator: Doug Shadle

Ingram Hall

11:30 - 1:00 PM // Lunch

1:15 PM – 2:45 PM // Group/Individual Masterclasses with Students 

• Guest clinicians:
  • Ellen Hummel (oboe)
  • Jeff Coffin (saxophone)
  • Angel Bat Dawid (clarinet)
  • LuFuki (guitar)
  • Alex Marcelo (piano)

Various locations

1:30 - 2:30 PM // Maxine Gordon: Oral interview series kick-off with Ralph Jones 

Turner Recital Hall

3:00 - 4:30 PM // Sonic Convocation
Ralph Jones, coordinator 

Instrumental Rehearsal Hall

4:30 PM - 7:30 PM // Dinner (on your own)

7:30 PM – Culminating concert with Autophysiopsychic Millennium 

Ingram Hall