At UNC Charlotte Center City, 320 E. 9th Street
8 a.m., Registration
9 a.m., Welcome, Jeffrey Leak, Director, Center for the Study of the New South
9:05-10:15 a.m., Fitzhugh Brundage (UNC Chapel Hill), Featured Speaker
10:15-11:15 a.m., Theorizing the Lynching Experience
- Julia Robinson (UNC Charlotte), “Myth, Rituals, and Racial Bodies: Lynching in the American South”
- Sandy Alexandre, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Out of Site: On Location in Lynching Photographs”
- Charles L. Lumpkins (Penn State University), “Mass Destruction of Black Communities: Reconsidering Progressive-era Race Riots as Pogroms”
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Lynchings, Near Lynchings and Race Riots
- E.M. Beck (University of Georgia), “Averted, Foiled, and Failed Lynchings in the American South: The Untold Story”
- Zach Sell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “For that Protection that Law Refuses to Give”: Life, Law, and Refusal during the Springfield Race Riot of 1908
- Gregory Mixon (UNC Charlotte), “The Atlanta Race Riot and Lynching”
12:30 p.m., Lunch on your own
2-2:50 p.m., Living Through a Lynching: The Extraordinary Life of Dr. James Cameron
- Robert Smith (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Fran Kaplan, America’s Black Holocaust Virtual Museum
3-4 p.m., Cultural Dimensions of Lynching
- Trina Seitz (Appalachian State University), “Teaching the History of Lynching to Undergraduates”
- Ruth Thompson-Miller (University of Dayton), “Segregation Stress Syndrome: The Long Term Consequences of Jim Crow America”
- Stephanie Harp, “Whiter than Snow: Southern Baptist Hymnody in the 1920s and a Lynching in Little Rock”
4 p.m., Break
At Levine Museum of the New South, 200 E. 7th Street
5:30-7 p.m., Reception
At First United Presbyterian Church, 406 N. College Street, across from Levine Museum
7 p.m., Claude A. Clegg III (Indiana University) – Featured Speaker
