Schedule of Events

Day One
Tuesday, November 6, 2007

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
SIGN-IN & BREAKFAST
Catering provided by Nantucket Cafe in Chapel Hill, NC

8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Film Clip From the Boswell Sisters Singing “Sleepy Time Down in the South” (1932)
Welcome and Introduction

8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
SESSION I: What if Events in Southern History Were Changed?

10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
BREAK

10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
SESSION II: What if African Americans Had Overturned American History?

Concurrent Session: Producing Speculative Scholarship and Art

11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
LUNCH
Catering provided by Ethel Carver Catering in Durham, NC
FILM - “CSA: The Confederate States of America”

1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
SESSION III: “The Making of CSA: Trudier Harris Engages Filmmaker Kevin Wilmott”

2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
BREAK

2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
SESSION IV: Sandra Govan Plenary Session on Octavia Butler

3:45 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
CLOSING REMARKS

5:30-6:30 p.m.
Dinner (on your own)

7:00- 9:00 p.m.
Keynote Panel: Challenging Historical Perspectives through Fiction

DAY 2
Wednesday, November 7, 2007

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
SIGN-IN & BREAKFAST
Catering provided by Nantucket Cafe in Chapel Hill, NC

8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction

8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
SESSION I: Examining Speculative Literature

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
BREAK

10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
SESSION II: Lectures and Showcase Poetry, Visual Art, Folk Traditions

11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
LUNCH- Catering provided by Ethel Carver Catering in Durham, NC
FILM - “White Man’s Burden” (starring Harry Belafonte and John Travolta)

1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
SESSION III: Analysis of “White Man’s Burden” & Audience Feedback
Lecturer and Moderator: Charlene Regester

2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
BREAK

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
SESSION IV: Speculative Score & Documentary Performance

3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
CLOSING REMARKS

5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Dinner (on your own)

7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Speculative Dance Performance: Night of Renewal
Speculating on 18th & 19th-century African slave and Scottish Highlander interaction in NC
Sonja Haynes Stone Center Theatre

DAY 3
Duke University
Thursday, November 8, 2007

10:00-11:30 a.m.
Session One: Speculating on Reconstruction
Panel Topic: If Albion Tourgee's plan for Reconstruction had been in place, what would the South be like now? Elliott asserts that Tourgee and the Radicals envisioned that during Reconstruction boundaries would be re-drawn and the ex-Confederates would not be allowed to vote.

11:30-11:45 a.m.
Break

11:45-1:00 p.m.
Lunch and a Movie: Excerpts of Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind

1:30-2:45 p.m.
Session II: Speculating on the Future
Round Table Discussion by *Duke Seminar Group on the South
Panel Topic: What kind of present would we have if the historical past were different? Using historical precedence, where are the possible places to go from here to the future?

2:45-3:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks

*Duke Seminar on the South Participants, please contact one of the following co-leaders: Paula McClain, Kerry Haynie, Mike Munger, Sherman James, or William A. Darity, Jr.