William & Mary 6th Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium
, March 18-19, 2016
Jim Crow & Civil Rights in the Age of President Obama
With the exception of the Friday Dance Concert, the symposium is FREE! Please register at forms.wm.edu/24498 <http://forms.wm.edu/24498>
To purchase tickets for the Dance Concert call: (888) 965-7254 General Admission- $25; Students—$7
Friday, March 18th 7:30pm
Kimball Theatre (Merchants Square)
Welcome: Jody Allen,
Lemon Project Managing Director and Co-Chair
Leah Glenn, Lemon Project Co-Chair
The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble
Saturday, March 19th School of Education
(301 Monticello Avenue)
8:30 am—9:30 am Check-in and Continental Breakfast
9:45 am Matoaka Room
Welcome – Jody Allen
Opening Remarks – Taylor Reveley, President W&M
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Introduction of Keynote Speaker – Shana Haines
Keynote Address—Ms. Diane Nash “The Movements of the ‘60s: A Legacy for Today”
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/nash-diane-judith-1938 <http://www.blackpast.org/aah/nash-diane-judith-1938>
11:15am – 11:30am Special Announcement - Jody Allen & Andrew Ojeda
11:30am—12:30pm
Integrating the College of William & Mary
Panelists: Lynn Briley ’72;
Warren Buck ’70,’76, ’13; Karen Ely ’71;
Janet Brown Strafer ’71, ‘77
Moderator: Bonnie Winston, Managing Editor, Richmond Free Press
12:30pm—1:00pm Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Presentations
21st Century College Unrest: An International Perspective, Dogwood Room
“They are Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Student Protests on College Campuses in the United States and South Africa”
Carol Corneilse, Ph.D.; Cheri-Leigh Erasmus;
Phyllis Slade Martin, Ph.D.
Moderator: R. Trent Vinson, Associate Professor of History, William & Mary
Justice and the Environment, Holly A Room
Robert Gioielli, Ph.D. “From St. Louis to Flint (and Ferguson and Baltimore): Lead and the Long History of Environmental Injustice”
Lenneal J. Henderson, Ph.D., “Overcoming Embedded Injustice: the Pursuit of Energy and Environmental Justice”
Moderator: Andrew Fisher, Associate Professor of History, William & Mary
Post-Emancipation, Holly B Room
Travis Harris, “Black Reconstruction in Williamsburg”
Candace Gray, “The Crime of Marriage, a Story in Black and White: Kinney v Commonwealth of Virginia, 1879”
Shana Haines, “Paper Citizens: African American Civic Identity and the United States Constitution”
Moderator: Hannah Rosen, Associate Professor of History & American Studies, William & Mary
Lemon Project Summer Research Grant Recipients, Classroom 1056
Keaun Barrett, ’16 “The Invisible Scars of Racism: Understanding the effects of Overt and Covert Acts of Racism on African American Men at the College of William & Mary.”
Johnna Moore, ‘16 “Performance Art and Racial Identity at the College of William and Mary and in Williamsburg”
Moderator: Andrew Ojeda ’12 Morningstar, Client Support Team Leader
Social Justice and the Arts Matoaka Room
Cleo Parker Robinson
Moderator: Leah Glenn, Associate Professor, Theatre, Speech, and Dance
2:30pm – 3:30pm Presentations
Family Ties, Matoaka Room
Carol Hill; Burnell K. Irby; & Justin Miller, “Your Child Is A Negro Child”
Moderator: Susan Kern, Ph.D. Executive Director Historic Campus and Adjunct Associate Professor of History
Wrap up – Leah Glenn
3:30pm – 3:45
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Terry L. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia 23187 757-221-3932
http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/ <http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/>
http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html <http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html>
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Have we got a college? Have we got a football team?.... Well, we can't afford both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.
--Groucho Marx, in "Horse Feathers."
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