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Academic Symposium Schedule

October 14, 2009

MORNING

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 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.

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. – Symposium registration open in the first floor lobby of the Stephen T. Mather Training Center.

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. – Coffee and pastries served in the Mather Training Center lobby.

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. – Book sales open in the Mather Training Center lobby.

AFTERNOON

1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. – Session Set I

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

Session Title: John Brown in Kansas
Session Chair: Jonathan Earle, University of Kansas

  • I.A.1. Rusty Monhollon, Hood College (presented by Dean Herrin, National Park Service Coordinator, Catoctin Center for Regional Studies). Title:  John Brown and Kansas:  An Uneasy Past
  • I.A.2. Chris W. Post, Kent State University-Stark Campus
    Title:  Reputational Politics and the Symbolic Accretion of John Brown in Kansas
  • I.A.3. Peggy A. Russo, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto
    Title:  The Pottawatomie Massacre Cover-up

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

Session Title: John Brown’s Women
Session Chair: Janet Beck, Appalachian State University

  • I.B.1. Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz, Indiana University
    Title:  “I am the only person who can honestly claim to be `the last survivor’”: Annie Brown (Adams) and the Memory of John Brown’s Raid
  • I.B.2. Alice Keesey Mecoy, Independent Scholar,
    Great-great-great granddaughter of John Brown
    Title: Silent Warriors—The Women in John Brown’s Life
  • I.B.3. Sandra Weber, Independent Scholar
    Title: Mary Ann Day Brown, Wife and Widow of John Brown

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

Session Title: “A Transcendentalist above All”: John Brown and the Politics of Transcendentalism
Session Chair: Daniel S. Malachuk, Western Illinois University-Quad Cities

  • I.C.1. Ethan Kytle, California State University, Fresno
    Title:  Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Transcendentalism, and John Brown’s Raid at Harpers Ferry
  • I.C.2. Daniel S. Malachuk, Western Illinois University-Quad Cities
    Title:  The Role of Emerson, Thoreau, and John Brown in America’s Long Revolution, 1776-1870
  • I.C.3. Michael Ziser, University of California, Davis
    Title: The Communism of Singularities: Emerson’s Political Theory and John Brown

2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. – Session Set II

Session II.A., Chapel, Curtis Freewill Baptist Church

Session Title: John Brown Biography
Session Chair: Todd Bolton
Branch Chief, Visitor Services, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
John Brown Remembered: Symposium Planning Committee

  • II.A.1. Evan Carton, University of Texas, Austin 
    Title:  John Brown, Constitutional Evil, and Ontological Insurrection
  • II.A.2. Robert McGlone, University of Hawaii
    Title: TBA

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Join a Park Ranger for a guided walking tour from the Stephen T. Mather Training Center to the Lower Town district of Harpers Ferry, while learning about Harpers Ferry’s history. A park shuttle bus can be acquired from the Lower Town to take participants to the Cavalier Heights Visitor Center.

4:00 p.m. - Participants not wishing to take the walking tour may board a park shuttle bus at the Stephen T. Mather Training Center to return to the Cavalier Heights Visitor Center.

EVENING

5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – “Night at the Park” – Join fellow symposium participants at a reception on The Green, sponsored by Pennsylvania State University. The Green is located in the Lower Town district of Harpers Ferry across from the Harpers Ferry Historical Association Park Bookshop. Symposium participants should park at the Cavalier Heights Visitor Center and ride a park shuttle bus to Lower Town.

Ongoing activities include:

  • Harpers Ferry Historical Park Bookshop will be open.
  • Ongoing book signings in the tent on The Green.
  • John Brown related park museums and exhibits will be open.
  • Refreshments will be served.
  • Live music.
  • Harpers Ferry merchant district will be open.
  • Josephine Curtis’s book on the Murphy Family history will be on display.
  • Photographic exhibit on John Brown will be on display on the second floor of the John Brown Museum.

8:00 p.m. – Park shuttle bus will return to the Cavalier Heights Visitor Center.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

Wednesday October 14

Thursday October 15

Friday October 16

Saturday October 17

 

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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Harpers Ferry Historical Association

Jefferson County NAACP

National Parks Conservation Association

John Brown Heritage Association

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