9th Annual Symposium Program
The 9th Annual Lemon Project Symposium
“Celebrating Legacies, Constructing Futures:
Four Hundred Years of Black Community and Culture”
Lemon Project Symposium Program
Thursday, March 14, 20196:45 pm Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium, 200 Stadium Drive
The Long Shadow Film Screening
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: Matoaka Woods, School of Education, 301 Monticello Avenue
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 2000
- “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
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
- “Reconciliation through Public History”
- Location: Mataoka Woods
- “A Legacy of Family: Disrupted and Rebuilt”
- Location: Holly
- “Constructing Home, Constructing Self”
- Location: Dogwood
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
- “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
