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14th Annual MURAP Academic Conference

"The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Bicentennial Reflection"

Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room

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

 

 

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
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