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Academic Symposium Schedule

October 17, 2009

MORNING

7:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Harpers Ferry Park shuttle buses will run from the Cavalier Heights Visitor Center to the Stephen T. Mather Training Center approximately every 15 minutes. All symposium participants must park at the Cavalier Heights Visitor Center and take the shuttle bus.

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. – Coffee and pastries

8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. – Book sales open in the Mather Training Center lobby.

9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. – Session Set VII

Session VII.A., First Floor Classroom, Stephen A. Mather Training Center

Session Title: Special screening of the late Dr. Herbert Aptheker’s lecture during the John Brown 1996 Symposium at Pennsylvania State University
Session Chair: Peggy A. Russo, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto

  • Speaker: Herbert Aptheker, Author of Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States and editor of the papers of W. E. B. Du Bois.
    Title: John Brown’s Challenge: Yesterday and Today

Session VII.B., Second Floor Classroom, Stephen T. Mather Training Center
Session Title: Harpers Ferry Raiders: After the Raid
Session Chair: John Quist, Shippensburg University

  • VII.B.1. Kent A. McConnell, Phillips Exeter Academy
    Title: Race and “Body Politics” at Harpers Ferry
  • VII.B.2. John R. McKivigan, Indiana University, Purdue University at Indianapolis
    Title: Escape from Harpers Ferry
  • VII.B.3. D. Jonathan White, University of Alabama
    Title: “What We Have to Expect”:  Harpers Ferry, Extradition and Secession

Session VII.C., Fellowship Hall, Curtis Freewill Baptist Church

Session Title: Southern Responses to the Harpers Ferry Raid
Session Chair: TBA

  • VII.C.1. Daniel J. Bell, South Carolina State Park Service
    Title: “They Have Actually Crossed the Rubicon”: Governor William Henry Gist and South Carolina’s Response to the Harpers Ferry Raid
  • VII.C.2. Connie Park Rice, West Virginia University
    Title: “They Reaped a Whirlwind at Harper’s Ferry”:  Western Virginia’s Response to John Brown’s Raid
  • VII.C.3. Eric J. Richardson, North Carolina Central University & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Title: Onward Christian Soldiers: John Brown’s Impact on Southern Abolitionist and Pacifist Anti-Slavery Groups, 1859-1900

10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. – Session Set VIII

Session VIII.A., First Floor Classroom, Stephen T. Mather Training Center

Session Title: Harpers Ferry Raiders: Background and Motives
Session Chair: Pete Teagle, Hampton Roads Academy

  • VIII.A.1. Chris Catalfamo, Indiana County Historical Society   
    Title: John Brown’s First Lieutenant: Albert Hazlett, Indiana County, Pa. and the Making of a Revolutionary
  • VIII.A.2. Nicole Etcheson, Ball State University
    Title: John Brown’s Men
  • VIII.A.3. Philip J. Schwarz, Professor Emeritus, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Title: The Newby Family and the Harpers Ferry Raid

Session VIII.B., Second Floor Classroom, Stephen T. Mather Training Center

Session Title: John Brown’s Image in Art, Photography, and Film
Session Chair: John Stauffer, Harvard University

  • VIII.B.1. Jean Libby, Independent Scholar & Editor of Allies for Freedom
    Title: John Brown Photo Chronology
  • VIII.B.2. Andrew McAlister, University of Tampa
    Title: And Starring _________ as John Brown: Problems of Adapting Brown’s Story to the Big Screen
  • VIII.B.3. Vincent Ajamu Shivers, Youngstown State University
    Title: John Brown’s Kiss

Session VIII. C., Fellowship Hall, Curtis Freewill Baptist Church

Session Title: John Brown in African-American Cultural Memory
Session Chair:  Tonya Thames Taylor, West Chester University

  • VIII.C.1. Melanie Fritsch, University of Tuebingen, Germany
    Title: “We do believe in John Brown”: John Brown in African American Memory at the Turn of the Century
  • VIII.C.2. Robert B. Gilpin, Yale University
    Title: Bringing Brown Back to the Ferry
  • VIII.C.3. Zoe Trodd, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Title: Christ Re-crucified: John Brown in the American Anti-Lynching Tradition

AFTERNOON

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Keynote Address

Chapel, Curtis Freewill Baptist Church

  • Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Finkelman
    President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
    Albany Law School
  • Introduction: Daniel Littlefield
    University of South Carolina

1:00 p.m. – Shuttle bus will return to the Cavalier Heights Visitor Center.

Public programming activities, including music, dramatic presentations and scholarship will continue through Sunday, October 18, 2009 in the Lower Town District of Harpers Ferry. Check www.johnbrownraid.org for schedule.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

Wednesday October 14

Thursday October 15

Friday October 16

Saturday October 17

 

RELATED LINKS:

John Brown Anniversary Sales Items

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Kim Biggs
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
P O Box 65
Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

(304) 535-6024

Kim_Biggs@nps.gov

 

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Harpers Ferry Historical Association

Jefferson County NAACP

National Parks Conservation Association

John Brown Heritage Association

Penn State University, Mont Alto Campus