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From Segregation to Black Lives Matter: A Symposium and Celebration of the Opening of the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History at the University of Florida
March 21, 2019 - March 23, 2019
January 11, 2019: For Immediate Release
The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida announces:
From Segregation to Black Lives Matter. A Symposium and Celebration of the Opening of the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History at the University of Florida
Free registration is available here.
Contact: Tamarra Jenkins, (352-392-7168), aahpsymposium@gmail.com
Organized by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.
Sponsored by the University of Florida Office of the Provost, African American Studies, George A. Smathers Libraries, the College of Medicine, College of Public Health and Health Professions, Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment), Bob Graham Center for Public Service, Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research, The Richard J. Milbauer Program in Southern History, Department of History, The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Oak Hall School Civil Rights Symposium
Event Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019 to Saturday, March 23rd
Locations: George A. Smathers Libraries, The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, A. Quinn Jones Centerwhi
2019 marks the 10th anniversary of the African American History Project at the University of Florida. Funded primarily by the UF Office of the Provost, this research initiative has resulted in over thirty public history panels and programs, ten university seminars on African American studies, scores of student conference presentations and community-based oral history and Black History workshops across the country. The new collection includes over six hundred oral histories with African American elders in Florida telling stories of memories of slavery, resistance to segregation, anti-Black racial violence, the coming of the modern civil rights movement and narratives of Black and Latinx intersectionality among many other topics.
This symposium marks the formal opening of the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History at the University of Florida to scholars, students, and researchers worldwide. Joel Buchanan (1948-2014) was a beloved civil rights activist, historian and librarian in Gainesville and at the University of Florida. Joel was an indispensable member of the community, a tireless speaker who gave countless lectures and informal talks to elementary, high school and college students about the histories of segregation, the civil rights movement, and Gainesville. Joel used history to share his dreams of a better future for all. Joel guided generations of high school, college and university students in the completion of their class projects and dissertations. The naming of this collection is meant to pay homage to Joel Buchanan’s vision of history and social justice.
The symposium will feature panels, films, exhibits, performances, and lectures on many different facets of Black History. The event will bring together scholars, educators, and community organizers to discuss how to infuse African American history in K-12, higher education and social justice organizing on a national level. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the role of African American history in classrooms, communities, and civic engagement. The event will also feature noted authors signing their books.
Preliminary Symposium schedule Thursday, March 21, 2019
GEORGE A. SMATHERS LIBRARIES, LIBRARY EAST, ROOM 100
8:00 to 9:00 AM: REGISTRATION/COFFEE
COMMUNITY PRESENTERS/POSTERS/TABLING*
9:00 to 10:00
OPENING REMARKS:
President Fuchs, University of Florida
Provost Joe Glover, University of Florida
Reda Buchanan
Sharon Austin, Director UF African American Studies
Paul Ortiz, Director, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
10:00 am: Conducting the Oral Histories: Challenges, Impacts, Legacies
Featuring SPOHP/UF Alumni: Randi Gill-Sadler, Lafayette College,
Justin Hosbey, Emory University, Justin Dunnavant, UC-Santa Cruz/Vanderbilt
Raja Rahim, University of Florida
Moderated by Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, University of Florida
11:15am: Coffee Break
Book Signings
(Participants’ books will be for sale throughout the event’s proceedings)
11:45am: The Difference History Makes: Veterans, Classrooms, Community, Museum & Virtually
John Nelson, Jefferson County Veterans of Foreign Wars, Sherry DuPree, Director, UNESCO-Transatlantic Slave Trade, Gayle Phillips, Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center, St. Augustine, Curtis Michelson, Democracy Forum, Vivian Filer, Cotton Club Museum, Inc.
Moderated by Paul Ortiz, University of Florida
12:45pm: –BREAK FOR LUNCH–
2:30pm: “Gator Tales” Film Screening
Gator Tales is an original play devised and directed by UF Arts Professor Kevin Marshall
In conjunction with SPOHP. Focusing on the experiences of the first generations of
African American students at UF, the play was nominated for the 2015 Freedom of
Expression Award by Amnesty International at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.
3:30pm: Comment: UF Alumni Narrators’ Panel: Evelyn Mickle, Albert White, Bernard Hicks
6:00pm: HARN MUSEUM OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Keynote Address:
Curtis Austin, Department of History, University of Oregon
Author of: Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party
Comment: Derrick White, Department of History, Dartmouth University
7:00 to 9:00pm: Dinner Reception
Friday, March 22, 2019
GEORGE A. SMATHERS LIBRARIES, LIBRARY EAST, ROOM 100
8:30am: MORNING WELCOME/ COFFEE
Opening Remarks: Dean David Richardson, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida
9:00am: Remembering Joel Buchanan:
Evelyn Foxx, Alachua County NAACP, Rodney Long, Alachua County Commissioner Emeritus, Bernie Machen, UF President Emeritus, Judith Russell, Smathers Libraries Dean, Steve Noll, Department of History, Marna Weston, Oak Hall School, Faye Williams, M.A.M.A.’s Club, Family & community members
10: 15am: Unveiling the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History
Judith Russell, Stephanie Birch, Laurie Taylor, George Smathers Libraries
11:00am: Coffee Break/Light Refreshments
Book signings
11:30am: History, Intersectionality and Liberation in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Tanya Saunders, University of Florida, Nailah Summers, Dream Defenders, Max Krochmal, Texas Christian University
Moderated by Lauren Pearlman, University of Florida
–LUNCH BREAK—
An Afternoon of Student Activism, Ethnic Studies, and Community Building
2:30pm: “The Making of the Institute of Black Culture at the University of Florida,”
Presented by Student Filmmakers
Comment: Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Valdosta State University
Coffee Break
Book Signings
4:30pm: “The Making of the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures, “La Casita” at UF”
Presented by Student Filmmakers
Comment: Nicholas Vargas, University of Florida
Saturday, March 23, 2019
A. Quinn Jones Center Auditorium
1013 NW. 7th Avenue
Active Commemorations: Putting Historical Memory to Work
9:00am: Morning Welcome/Coffee
9:30am: Ocoee, Florida: One Hundred Years of Accountability and Reconciliation in the Making,
Kathleen Crown, Nichole Dawkins, Mayor Rusty Johnson, William E. Maxwell
Moderated by Ed Gonzalez-Tennant, University of Central Florida
11:00am: Coffee Break
Book Signings
11:30am: “Legacies of Lincoln High School”
Presentation by Albert White, Lincoln High School Alumnus
Moderated by: Tina Certain, Alachua County School Board Member
LUNCH
1:30pm: Documentary Film-in progress: “Legacies of Lynching: The Odyssey of Oscar Mack in Florida and Beyond,”
Julian Chambliss, Department of English, Michigan State University
Comment: James Brown, Grandson of Oscar Mack & Audience
SYMPOSIUM CLOSING REMARKS: Larry Rivers, Distinguished Professor of History,
Florida A & M University
This Symposium is Funded by the University of Florida Office of the Provost