Event
This symposium, co-hosted by the Penn & Slavery Project and the Program on Race, Science & Society, with support from the Office of the Provost, the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, the Penn Medicine Office of Inclusion and Diversity, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, will explore Penn’s relationship with the institution of slavery. The symposium will feature presentations by undergraduates currently conducting research as part of the Penn & Slavery Project, as well as roundtable and panel discussions by some of the nation's leading scholars of slavery, race, and medicine.
The symposium is free and open to the public. Please register using this link.
Schedule
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
4:00-4:15 p.m.: Welcome: Dr. Wendell Pritchett, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania
4:15- 5:45 p.m.:
Introductions: William Noel, Director of the Kislak Center & the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
Plenary roundtable:
Kathleen Brown, David Boies Professor of History; Director of the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women; Director of the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania
Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights; Professor of Africana Studies; Director of the Program on Race, Science & Society, University of Pennsylvania
Deirdre Cooper Owens, Associate Professor of History, Queens College, CUNY; Director for the Program in African American History, Library Company of Philadelphia
5:45- 6:45 p.m.: Reception
Thursday, April 4, 2019
9:30- 10:00 a.m.: Registration, coffee provided
10:00-11:15 a.m.: Session 1: Penn & Slavery Project Research Findings
Research presentation by current undergraduate seminar students
11:15-11:30 a.m.: 15-minute break, refreshments provided
11:30- 12:30 p.m.: Session 2: Working on the Penn & Slavery Project: Current Research Areas, Strategies, and Ideas for the Future
Moderator: Daniel Richter, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History; Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Arielle Julia Brown, Cultural Planning Consultant for the Penn & Slavery Project; Public Programs Developer, Penn Museum
Alexis Broderick Neumann, Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow for the Penn & Slavery Project and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Paul Mitchell, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
VanJessica Gladney, Public History Fellow for the Penn & Slavery Project
Breanna Moore, Independent Scholar
12:30-1:00 p.m.: Session 3: Reimagining Penn’s History through Augmented Reality
VanJessica Gladney
Laurie Allen, Director of Digital Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Paul Farber, Artistic Director of Monument Lab; Lecturer in Fine Arts/Urban Studies, University of Pennsylvania
1:00-2:30 p.m.: Lunch (provided)
2:30- 4:30 p.m.: Session 4: Slavery and Medicine: What was Penn’s Role?
Moderator: Dorothy Roberts
Daina Ramey Berry, Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
Sowande’ Mustakeem, Associate Professor of History and of African and African-American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Rana Hogarth, Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher Willoughby, Lapidus Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
4:30- 5:30 p .m.: Reception