The 14th Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium
March 22-23, 2024
Event Details
William & Mary, Office of the Provost
The Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation
In-Person and Virtual Symposium
Event is free. All are welcome!
Taking Our Time: Healing Through Black History, Family, and Communities
This Williamsburg, Virginia, symposium will take place both in person at the William & Mary School of Education (301 Monticello Avenue) and virtually over Zoom. The Friday evening performance location will be in the Commonwealth Auditorium, Sadler Center (200 Stadium Drive), and Saturday evening’s event will be at Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved (115 Jamestown Road).
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Friday, March 22, 2024
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8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Registration Check-In |
William & Mary School of Education, Concourse |
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8:45 a.m. - 8:55 a.m. |
Welcome by Robert Francis Engs Lemon Project Director Dr. Jody Allen |
School of Education, Matoaka Woods |
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8:55 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. |
Remarks by Wanjirũ G. Mbure, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Arts & Sciences |
Matoaka Woods |
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9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. |
Break |
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3 Concurrent Panels |
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9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
Panel 1: Voices of Integration: Black Students from the Class of 1969 |
Matoaka Woods |
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School of Education, Dogwood |
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Panel 3: Preserving Legacies: Memorialization and Commemoration |
School of Education, Holly |
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10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. |
Break |
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3 Concurrent Panels |
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10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
Panel 4: Designing for Racial Healing in Real Time: The Sewanee Praises Memorial Project |
Matoaka Woods |
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Dogwood |
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Holly |
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12:00 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. |
Lunch |
Matoaka Woods |
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1:10 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. |
Break |
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3 Concurrent Panels |
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1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Panel 8: King Iron: Forging Identity Through the Untold Stories of the Iron Furnace Workers of Middle Tennessee (Hybrid) |
Matoaka Woods |
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Panel 9: Reclamation through Data-Informed Methods for Studying Slavery and Beyond |
Dogwood |
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Panel 10: Reparative Work and the East Marshall Street Well Project |
Holly |
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2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. |
Break |
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3 Concurrent Panels |
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2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Panel 11: Using Public History such as Markers and Statues to Heal Communities of Color |
Matoaka Woods |
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Panel 12: Taking Up Space and Finding Joy in Life, Culture, and Art |
Dogwood |
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Panel 13: Exploring Family Histories |
Holly |
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4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. |
Break |
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3 Concurrent Panels |
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4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. |
Matoaka Woods |
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Panel 15: Digital Archives, Communal Care, and Healing through Comics and Flowers |
Dogwood |
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Panel 16: Good Ancestors, Silenced DNA, and Researching Our History |
Holly |
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5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. |
Break |
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7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
The Lemon Project with The African-American Historical Society of Newport News & the Hampton University Department of Music & Performing Arts presents "The Yard," Written by Iris Goode-Middleton Reception to Follow in Atrium, Sponsored by W&M Department of Theater, Speech, & Dance |
Commonwealth Auditorium, Sadler Center (200 Stadium Drive) |
Saturday, March 23, 2024
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8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Registration Check-In |
School of Education, Concourse |
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8:55 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. |
Welcome by Dr. Jody Allen Introduction by Andre Taylor, Historian, Colonial Williamsburg |
School of Education, Matoaka Woods |
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9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. |
"Healin de Black Famlee: A Gullah/Geechee Circle of Healing Session" Keynote by Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation |
Matoaka Woods |
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10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Book Signing by Queen Quet |
Concourse |
3 Concurrent Panels |
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10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. |
Panel 17: A School Name: The Identity, Impact, and Implications |
Matoaka Woods |
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Panel 18: Facets of Public History: Graduate Student Experiences and the Lemon Project |
School of Education, Dogwood |
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Panel 19: Racial Identity and Healing, Critical Conversations, and Family Histories |
School of Education, Holly |
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11:45 a.m. -12:00 p.m. |
Break |
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12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. |
Lunch Panel 20: Mapping as Community Healing: Space, Place, and Legacy at the Williamsburg Bray School |
Matoaka Woods |
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1:15 p.m. -1:30 p.m. |
Break |
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3 Concurrent Panels |
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1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. |
Matoaka Woods |
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Panel 22: Silenced Voices in Interpreting Sites of Slavery (Hybrid) |
Dogwood |
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Panel 23: Reconciliation through Conversations, History, and Communal Healing |
Holly |
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2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
Break |
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3 Concurrent Panels |
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3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. |
Matoaka Woods |
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Panel 25: Rekindling the Family Flame: A Family's Pursuit of Liberty from Virginia to Liberia (Hybrid) |
Dogwood |
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Panel 26: Reassembling the Pieces: Restoration for Descendants of a Race Massacre (Virtual) |
Holly |
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7:00 p.m. |
Spoken Word Event in collaboration with The Black Poets Society |
Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved (115 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, VA 23185) (Parking is available behind the Admissions Building on Grigsby Drive.) |
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