October 18-21, 2017 Symposium Schedule

Wednesday, October 18, 2017                                                                                                           

5:00pm:                       Opening reception (Newcomb Hall)

Speaker: Daina Ramey Berry (Associate Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies and the Oliver H. Radkey Fellow in American History, University of Texas at Austin), “Ghost Values and the Remains of Slavery”

7:30pm:                       Slave Dwelling Project Experience (The Lawn)

Thursday, October 19, 2017                                                                                                               

8:00-8:30am:               Registration (Newcomb Hall)

8:30-9:00am:               Welcome (Newcomb Hall)

Marcus Martin (Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity, Co-Chair of the President’s Commission of Slavery and the University, University of Virginia) Kirt von Daacke (Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of History, Co-Chair of the President’s Commission of Slavery and the University, University of Virginia), Robert (Bobby) W. Battle (Bicentennial Commission Co-Chair), Teresa Sullivan (President, University of Virginia)

9:00-10:20am:             Opening Panel: “Slavery and Its Legacies at UVA” (Newcomb Hall)

Speakers: Patrice Grimes (Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Education, University of Virginia), Ervin Jordan (Associate Professor and Research Archivist, University of Virginia), Louis Nelson (Professor of Architectural History and Associate Dean in the School of Architecture, Associate Provost for Outreach, University of Virginia), Kirt von Daacke (Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia)

Moderator: Elizabeth Varon (Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History and Associate Director at the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, University of Virginia)

10:30am-12:00pm:      Breakout Panels – Session 1 (Newcomb Hall)

• “Plantation Remix: Site-Performance as Intervention, Dynamic Memorialization, and Empathy-Building Transformation”
• “College Bound—Interracial and Racist Student Culture at Lane Seminar, Andover Theological Seminary, The University of Mississippi, and Columbian College (DC)”
• “Preservation & Restoration: Finding & Saving Historic Structures”
• “For Friendship, For Freedom, For Union: The JUEL Project and UVA Students”
• “Remembering Slavery at the University of South Carolina
• “Cemeteries, Slavery, and History”
• “Retain or Remove? Memorialization of Slaveholders, Supremacists, and Segregationists at Clemson University”
• “Identification & Interpretation Challenges in Researching the Enslaved”
• “Workshop: Contacts, Collaboration, Classrooms, Courage! Making a Successful Slave Dwelling Project Visit”

12:15-2:00pm: Luncheon and Panel: “Institutions Confronting the Legacy of Slavery”         (The Lawn)

Speakers: John W. Franklin (Cultural Historian and Senior Manager in the Office of External Affairs at the National Museum of African American History and Culture), Kat Imhoff (President and Chief Executive Officer, The Montpelier Foundation), Taylor Reveley (President, William & Mary), Gary Sandling (Vice President of Visitor Programs and Visitor Services, Thomas Jefferson Foundation), Teresa Sullivan (President, University of Virginia)

Moderator: Deborah McDowell (Alice Griffin Professor of English and Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia)

2:30-4:00pm:               Breakout Panels – Session 2 (Newcomb Hall)

• “Contextualizing UVA’s Landscape of Slavery”
• “Voices of Descendants: A Conversation”
• “New Interpretations at Historic Sites”
• “Excavating Memories, Elevating Morality: Digging for Slaves at St. Mary’s College”
• “Southern Schools, Slavery, and the Built Environment”
• “Slavery, Freedpeople, and the Landscape”
• “Contemporary Responses to Slavery at Universities”
• “‘Living with the Dead’: Mounds and Monuments among Monacan Indian and Enslaved Communities in Central Virginia”

7:30-9:00pm:               African American Cemetery Commemoration

Speakers and Performers: Alvin Edwards (Pastor, Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church), Delores McQuinn (Virginia House of Delegates), Almeta Miller (Richmond, VA), Brenda Marie Osbey (Poet, New Orleans, LA), Lynn Rainville (Research Professor in the Humanities, Sweet Briar College), Union Run Baptist Church Choir

Friday, October 20, 2017                                                                                                                    

 8:00-8:30am:               Registration (Newcomb Hall)

8:40-10:15am:             Panel: “Connecting with Community and Descendants” (Newcomb Hall)

Speakers: Scot French, Lenora McQueen, Will Kurtz (UVA Nau Center for Civil                  War History), Elizabeth Chew (Montpelier), Leontyne Peck

10:30am-12:00pm:      Breakout Panels – Session 3 (Newcomb Hall)

• “The Land, the Screen, the Page: Locations of Enslavement and Creative Arts”
• “Engaging the Community: Slavery and Breaking the Town/Gown Barrier”
• “Using Belle Grove Plantation to Educate Adults, University Students, and Elementary Students on the History of Slavery in the Shenandoah Valley”
• “Roots & Remembrance at Sweet Briar: A Discussion with Descendants”
• “Slavery and Race at Northern Universities”
• “Slaves in the Classroom: Science, Medicine, Race, and Learning in 19th Century America”
• “Documents and Databases on Slavery in the Digital Era”
• “Confronting Slavery at Furman University”
• “University of Virginia Student Voices—a 21^st Century Perspective”

12:15-2:00pm:             Luncheon and Panel: “Universities and Reparations” (The Lawn)

Speakers: Ana Lucia Araujo (Professor of History, Howard University),      Sandy Darity (Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics, and director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, Duke University), John Rosenthall (Director, Tougaloo College Research and Development Foundation)

Moderator: Craig Wilder (Professor of American History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2:30-4:00pm:               Breakout Panels – Session 4 (Newcomb Hall)

• “Archaeology and History in Understanding the Landscape of Slavery at Virginia Universities”
• “College Bound II: Making a Pro-Slavery Student Body at the University of Mississippi”
• “Challenges & Obstacles to Preserving Sites Associated with Slavery”
• “Reimagining Space and Place at the College of William & Mary”
• “Valley of Dry Bones: Unearthing the Past at the University of Georgia”
• “Virginia Slave Housing: Spreading the Word”
• “Slavery, the Civil War, and Memory in the South”
• Generations of Slavery: Tracing the Enslaved Across Time

Saturday, October 21, 2017                                                                                                                

 8:30am-9:00pm:          (Optional) Field Trip to Montpelier, Monticello, and Highland

Schedule:

8:30am –         Load Bus

9:00 am –        Depart from UVA

11:30 am –      Depart for Highland

12:30 pm –      Tour Highland

2:00 pm –        Depart for Montpelier

3:00 pm –        Tour Montpelier

6:00 pm –        Dinner at Montpelier

7:00 pm –        Depart for UVA

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-Thanks to Kirt von Daacke for creating the conference schedule