| Day 1 |
Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| 8:00 - 9:00am |
Breakfast and Registration |
| 9:00 - 9:30am |
Opening Remarks: Rosa Perelmuter, Professor of Spanish and Director, Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program |
| Welcome: Dr. Archie W. Ervin, Associate Provost for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, UNC-Chapel Hill |
| 9:30 - 10:00am |
Introduction of MURAP 2008 Student and Mentor Cohort |
| 10:00 - 11:00am |
Keynote Presentation I: "The Slave(ry) Trade and Reparations in the 21st Century" Adrienne Davis, William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law, Washington University at St. Louis (Introduction: Prof. Joseph Jordan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| 11:00 - 11:30am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 1:30pm |
A Sampling of Research by the MURAP 2008 Cohort: Part I María Obando, George Mason University, The Specter of Abjection: Horace Cross in Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits |
| Karina Gutiérrez, University of California at San Diego, Living in the Cusp of a 'Gay Panic': Defining and Performing Community in The Laramie Project |
| Darius Gulley, University of Akron, On the Disenfranchisement of Felons |
| 1:30 - 2:30pm |
LUNCH |
| 2:30 - 4:15pm |
Panel 1: Writing Slavery
Moderator: Tanya Shields, Asst. Professor of Women's Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill |
| William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Senior Associate Dean for Humanities and Fine Arts, UNC-Chapel Hill, "The First Fugitive Slave Narrative in U.S. History" |
| Dr. Tomeiko Ashford Carter, Interim Director of the Institute of African American Research, UNC-Chapel Hill, "Absalom Jones and the Religious Poetics of Abolition" |
| Tim McMillan, Adjunct Asst. Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill, "Remembering (and Forgetting) Slavery in North Carolina" |
| Respondent: Joseph Jordan, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Director, Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, UNC-Chapel Hill |
| 4:15 - 4:30pm |
Closing Remarks, Prof. Rosa Perelmuter |
| 5:00 - 6:00pm |
Exhibit and Reception, Wilson Library |
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| Day 2 |
Saturday, July 26, 2008 |
| 8:00 - 9:00am |
Breakfast and Registration |
| 9:00 - 10:00am |
Keynote Presentation II: Joseph Inikori, Professor of History, University of Rochester, "Eric Williams and Marc Bloch: Comparative Perspectives in Slavery and Abolition"
Introduction: Prof. William "Sandy" Darity, Duke University |
| 10:00 - 11:30am |
A Sampling of Research by the MURAP 2008 Cohort: Part II
Johan Uribe, The University of Georgia, "Inequality in 21st Century Socialism" |
| Samanthis Smalls, Armstrong Atlantic State University, "Vying for Opportunity: Freedwomen, Their Northern Sisters, and the Politics of the Black Church in the Post-Emancipation South" |
| 11:30 - 12:00pm |
Duke Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Presentation: Christopher Tounsel, Duke University, "British Perceptions of the 'American Problem': 1763-1775" |
| 12:00 - 1:00pm |
LUNCH |
| 1:00 - 2:30pm |
MURAP Alumni Panel
Prof. Millery Polyné, Assistant Professor of American Studies, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study |
| Lisa Calvente, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University |
| Rynetta Davis, Assistant Professor of English, The University of Kentucky |
| Michael Jennings, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| Charles Peterson, Associate Professor of Black Studies, The College of Wooster |
| 2:30 - 3:00pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:00 - 5:15pm |
Panel 2: Reading Slavery
Moderator: Millery Polyné, Assistant Professor of American Studies, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study |
| William "Sandy" Darity, Arts and Sciences Professor of Public Policy Studies, African and African American Studies, and Economics, Duke University, "Cold Calculation or Moral Sentiments?: Narratives of the British Abolition of the Slave Trade" |
| Loren Schweninger, Rosenthal Excellence Professor of History, UNC-Greensboro, "The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Transformation of African American Culture" |
| Thavolia Glymph, Associate Professor of History, Duke University, "Remembering and Dis-Remembering the Abolition of the Slave Trade" |
| D. Barry Gaspar, Professor of History, Duke University, "Abolition on the Horizon: The British Leeward Islands, 1798-1808" |
| Respondent: Reginald Hildebrand, Associate Professor of History and African and African American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill |
| 5:15pm |
Closing Remarks, Prof. Rosa Perelmuter |
