P&SP Symposium 2019
links to video recordings of the sessions are available in the schedule below
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
4:00-4:15 pm | WELCOME
Dr. Wendell Pritchett, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania
4:15- 5:45 p.m | INTRODUCTION
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 & Women; Director of the Gender, Sexuality & 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 pm | RECEPTION
Thursday, April 4, 2019
9:30- 10:00 am | REGISTRATION & COFFEE
10:00-11:15 am | SESSION 1
Penn & Slavery Project Research Findings
Presentation of research conducted by current undergraduate seminar students
11:15-11:30 am | COFFEE BREAK
11:30- 12:30 pm | 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 pm | SESSION 3
Reimagining Penn’s History through Augmented Reality
VanJessica Gladney, Public History Fellow for the Penn & Slavery Project
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 pm | LUNCH (provided)
2:30- 4:30 pm | SESSION 4
Slavery and Medicine: What was Penn’s Role?
Moderator: 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
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 pm | RECEPTION
For more details about the schedule and speakers: https://prss.sas.upenn.edu/events/penn-and-slavery-symposium