Schedule
All events marked ** are in the Mary Sue Cushman Room, Bairnwick Women’s Center, 114 Mississippi Avenue
Thursday, October 6th
Noon-6:00 Symposium Registration
McGriff Alumni House, 120 Georgia Avenue
6:00-7:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Race and Memorialization: What the South Remembers and Forgets
Presentation by Dr. Karen Cox, University of North Carolina Charlotte
Convocation Hall, 735 University Avenue
Attend virtually via Zoom: https://sewanee-edu.zoom.us/j/88427998134
7:30-9:00 Dinner (for pre-registered participants)**
Friday, October 7th
9:00-10:15 Restorative Justice Archaeology in the Heart of Black Wall Street**
Presentation by Dr. Alicia Odewale, Tulsa University
10:30-11:45 Colleges Working With Communities to Preserve Memories of Black Places**
Roundtable on community history featuring Dr. Tiffany Momon, Sewanee: University of the South; Ms. LaNetra McLemore and Mr. Antoine Smith of the Asia School Restoration Project
12:00 - 1:30 Poster Presentation Session and Lunch
Harris Commons, Spencer Hall
1:30-2:45 The Arts of Remembrance: William and Mary’s Memorial to the Enslaved**
Presentation and discussion featuring Dr. Jody Allen, Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation, William and Mary; Dr. Fanchon Glover, Chief Diversity Officer, Office of Diversity and Inclusion and Co-Chair of the memorial building committee; Mr. Burchell F. Pinnock, FAIA, Architect, Principal and Chairman of the Board, Baskervil Architectural and Engineering Firm
3:00-4:15 Sewanee: The Unnatural History of a Word**
Presentation by Mr. John Jeremiah Sullivan
4:30-5:30 #Save Sewanee Black History
Optional tour of Roberson Project Black Heritage initiative
Meet at University Cemetery, corner of Georgia Avenue and Kennerly Road. Transportation available.
6:00-7:00 Woven Wind: Art, Performance, Memory, and Healing
A work in progress, featuring artists Vesna Pavlovic, Mélisande Short-Colomb, Marlos E’van, Courtney Adair Johnson, musician/artist Rod McGaha, and contributions of Mr. James Toles
Guerry Auditorium, 68 Georgia Avenue
7:00-9:00 Dinner (for pre-registered participants)
Convocation Hall, 735 University Avenue
Saturday, October 8th
9:00-10:15 Poster Session Forum**
Facilitated by Dr. Mark Hopwood and Dr. Anthony Donaldson, Sewanee: The University of the South
10:30-11:45 Memory Projects In and For the Digital Age**
A conversation about the digital projects On These Grounds and Locating Slavery’s Legacies, featuring Dr. Sharon Leon, Michigan State University and Omeka; Dr. Woody Register and Dr. Tiffany Momon, Sewanee: The University of the South
12-12:30 Lunch**
12:45-2:00 Making Treason Odious Again: Perspectives on the Congressional Naming Commission and the Army’s War on the Lost Cause**
Presentation by Dr. Connor Williams, Lead Historian for the “Naming Commission” of the United States Congress
2:30-4:30 Tour of Lone Rock Stockade Archaeological Project led by Dr. Camille Westmont
Depart from parking lot of Cushman Room; Transportation to Tracy City, TN (12 miles from Sewanee) available
Have Questions? Contact Kathleen Solomon (Program Manager, Legacies of American Slavery Initiative)
931-598-3187
The Memory Works Symposium is sponsored by the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation at the University of the South, and in its role as one of seven Regional Collaboration Partners in the Legacies of American Slavery Network, a multiyear program under the direction of the Council of Independent Colleges and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University’s Macmillan Center. The symposium is made possible through the generous support of the Mellon Foundation. Additional support comes from the Center for Southern Studies at the University of the South.