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Universities Studying Slavery Consortium Meeting and Lemon Project Symposium Program

“Celebrating Legacies, Constructing Futures:
Four Hundred Years of Black Community and Culture”

Online registration is closed, but registration will be available onsite. 

Universities Studying Slavery Consortium Meeting

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Morning events will be held at the Wren Building, followed by a trip to Jamestown in the afternoon.

Parking

Parking is available at First Baptist Church at 727 Scotland Street. To park at this lot, please display this parking pass on your car window. Click here for walking directions from the First Baptist Church parking lot to the Wren Building. If you need handicap accessible parking closer to the Wren building, email [[w|lemon]] with your request before March 8.

Schedule

8:30 am The Great Hall, The Sir Christopher Wren Building, 111 Jamestown Rd.
Check-In
Continental Breakfast

9:15 am The Great Hall
Welcome by Provost Michael R. Halleran

9:30-10:30 am The Great Hall
USS Business Meeting

10:30 am-11:30 am The Great Hall
Roundtable: On the Ground Advice: Universities Studying Slavery and its Legacies The Great Hall

11:30 am
Tour of the Wren Building

12:30 pm The Great Hall
Lunch

1:45 pm Ewell Circle
Shuttle leaves for Jamestown Island

2:00-5:00 pm Jamestown 
Private Tour of the Angela Site, the Archaeological Collections, & the Nathalie P. & Alan M. Voorhees Archaearium Museum

5:00 pm
Shuttle Departs Jamestown Island

Dinner on Your Own

6:45 pm Commonwealth Auditorium, Sadler Center, 200 Stadium Drive
The Long Shadow Film Screening

The 9th Annual Lemon Project Symposium
All events will be held at the School of Education, unless otherwise noted.

Friday, March 15, 2019

10:00 am 107 North Boundary Street   
Bray School Marker Dedication
Welcome by President Katherine A. Rowe

Bray School Marker Dedication Rain location: School of Education, Matoaka Woods

11:00 am
Lunch on your own

11:30 am School of Education Concourse, 301 Monticello Avenue
Check-in Begins

12:30 pm-1:45 pm 2 concurrent panels

  • “Beyond Research: Practical Repair Remedies for Universities Studying Slavery”
    • Location: Matoaka Woods
  • “Transcending Narratives of Trauma”
    • Location: Classroom 2000
2:00 pm-3:15 pm 2 concurrent panels
  • “Seeking Abraham, Fostering Joy”
    • Location: Matoaka Woods
  • “Building Institutions, Building Power”
    • Location: Classroom
3:30 pm-4:45 pm 

  • “Preserving Boydton Institute: An African American School from Reconstruction into the Jim Crow Era”
    • Location: Matoaka Woods
  • “Beyond Research: Practical Repair Remedies for Universities Studying Slavery” Part 2: Interactive Working Session
    • Location: Classroom 2000
5:00 pm Matoaka Woods
Introduction of Speaker by President Katherine A. Rowe

Keynote by Christy Coleman, CEO of the American Civil War Museum
“Reclaiming the Narrative at the American Civil War Museum”

Reception to Follow Keynote

Saturday, March 16, 2019

8:00 am-8:50 am School of Education, 301 Monticello Avenue
Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:50 am-9:00 am Matoaka Woods
Welcome

9:00 am-10:15 am Matoaka Woods
Roundtable: “New Perspectives on Restorative Justice and Collective Healing"

  • Moderator: The Rev. Dr. Joanne M. Braxton, Frances L & Edwin L Cummings Professor Emerita of English & Humanities, William & Mary; CEO and President of the Board of the Braxton Institute
  • Nkechi Taifa, Esq., President and CEO, The Taifa Group, LLC; Convener, Justice Roundtable
  • Constance Paige Young, anti-racist activist, crime victim advocate and writer
10:30 am-11:45 am 3 concurrent panels

  • “Reconciliation through Public History”
    • Location: Mataoka Woods
  • “A Legacy of Family: Disrupted and Rebuilt”
    • Location: Holly
  • “Constructing Home, Constructing Self”
    • Location: Dogwood
11:45 am–12:15 pm Matoaka Woods
Lunch

12:30 pm-1:45 pm 3 concurrent panels

  • “Objects and Places: Telling the Truth and its Consequences”
    • Location: Matoaka Woods
  • “Four Hundred Years of Black Community in the Peninsula”
    • Location: Holly
  • “Critical Commemoration”
    • Location: Dogwood
2:00 pm-3:15 pm 3 concurrent panels

  • “Dismantling a Jim Crow Archive: Reimagining our Responsibility to Surfacing Black Lives”
    • Location: Matoaka Woods
  • “Moving Histories: Untold Stories from the South”
    • Location: Holly
  • “Learning from the Bray School: An Interdisciplinary Approach”
    • Location: Dogwood
3:15 pm Matoaka Woods
Concluding Remarks