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Transforming Public History: From Charleston to the Atlantic World Conference

1:30pm EDT

Session 1B: Museumizing the Black Holocaust in America: A Dialogue with America's Black Holocaust Museum Stern Center Room 206Reggie Jackson • Fran Kaplan Session 1C: From History to Our story: Decolonizing the Presentation of the Gullah/Geechee Legacy Stern Center Room 201Kate Derickson • Queen Quet • Glenda Simmons • Amir Jamal Toure • Elder Carlie Towne • Annette Watson

10:45am EDT

Session 1B: Middle Passage Public History Stern Center 409Ann Chinn • Eurica Huggins-Axum • Gene Tinnie

2:00pm EDT

Session 2A: Slave Quarters and Places of Memory as Tools to Fight Racial Intolerance: The Power of Preservation and Interpretation Stern Center Room 201Ana Edwards • Jennifer Hurst-Wender • Sonja Ingram • Zachary Nataf • Braden Paynter Session 2B: Transforming the Traditional Southern House Museum and Plantation: The Use Of Counter-Narratives to Tell a More Inclusive History Stern Center BallroomFielding Freed • Shawn Halifax • Porchia Moore • Shannon Browning Mullis Session 2D: The Costume Called My Skin: A Conversation with Members of the Black Interpreters Guild on Interpreting Black Life through Racial Justice Movements and the “Whitelash” Stern Center Room 206Sara Makeba (she/her) • Ashley Bouknight • Terry E. Brown • Elon Cook • Nicole Moore

8:00am EDT

Session 1C: Public History and the Narratives of Slavery in Rio de Janeiro Stern Center Room 201Martha Abreu • Matthias Rohrig Assuncao • Keila Grinberg • Jane Landers • Herb Mattos Session 1D: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration--Equal Justice Initiative Stern Center Room 205Equal Justice Initative

9:45am EDT

Session 2A: Remembering Slavery in America’s Most Historic City Stern Center Room 201Alphonso Brown • Shawn Halifax • Ethan J. Kytle • Joseph McGill • Blain Roberts Session 2B: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Archaeological Heritage within the City of Charleston Stern Center Room 205Inna Moore • Lauren Northrup • Katherine Saunders Pemberton • Charles Philips • Sarah Platt • Eric Poplin • Martha Zierden Session 2C: The Place Where It Happened: How One Historic Site Is Tackling Controversial Topics in Interpretation Stern Center 409Carin Bloom • Jeff Neale • Greg Smith • Dottie Stone

1:00pm EDT

Session 3B: Lessons Learned: Preserving Memorabilia and Healing Wounds with Mother Emanuel AME Church. Stern Center Room 205Elizabeth Alston • George McDaniel • Meg Moughan • Celeste Wiley • Leah Worthington Session 3C: Reimagining the Boundaries of Antislavery: History, Heritage, and Community Engagement Stern Center Room 206Katie Donington • Rebecca Nelson • John Oldfield • Mary Wills Session 3D: The Thin Neck in the Hourglass: New Public History Perspectives on Early Charleston and the Afro-Atlantic World Stern Center Room 201Thavolia Glymph • Jane Landers • Henry Lovejoy • Amy Potter • Peter Wood

2:45pm EDT

Session 4B: The Continuing Struggle for a Substantive Democracy: From the Atlantic Revolutions to Today Stern Center BallroomJames Campbell • Timothy Johnson • Mark Solomon • Mildred Williamson Session 4C: Collaboration: Abbeville Stern Center Room 205Mary Barr • Kiara Boone • Iva Carruthers • Ronnie Galvin • Francis Gourrier • Doria Johnson • Thee Smith Session 4D: Slavery Out of Sight: Dealing with Difficult Heritage in North Mississippi Stern Center Room 206Suzanne Davidson • Jeffrey Jackson • George McDaniel • Jodi Skipper Session 4E: Interpreting African American History in the Age of Black Lives Matter and Trump Stern Center 409Sara Makeba (she/her) • Elon Cook • Paul Garbarini • Shawn Halifax

4:30pm EDT

Session 5A: Blurred Lines: Accountability and Difficult Dialogues in the Wake of Racial Violence Stern Center Room 205Jason Allen • Mark Auslander • Jay Ball • Mary Elliot • Jeff Neale • Bryce Peake Session 5B: Inalienable Rights: Living History Through the Eyes of the Enslaved Stern Center 409Jerome Bias • Joseph McGill • Nicole Moore • Donald West Session 5C: Presenting the Past To Be Sold: The American Slave Trade from Virginia to New Orleans Stern Center Room 206Barbara Batson • Gregg Kimball • Catherine Wyatt Session 5D: Conquest and Catastrophe; Religious Material Culture, Space, Place, and Memory in Public History Stern Center Room 201Jonathan Highfield • Nadia Kamies • Ramona LaRoche • Anthony Stanonis