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. |
