At UNC Charlotte Center City
9 a.m., Amy Wood (Illinois State University), Featured Speaker
10:15-11:15 a.m., Graduate Student Panel: Religious and Cultural Dimensions of Lynching
- La Trina P. Jackson “Lynching as a Religious Act: Jesus, Jim Crow and Troy Davis”
- Alexis M. Johnson, “Black Christ: An American Apocalyptic Theme”
- Evonnia S. Woods (University of Missouri), “Some Little Known Facts about Lynching”
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Lynching Across Lines of Color and Gender
- Krystion Obie-Nelson (UNC Charlotte), “Black Women, White Women and Lynching: A Complex History”
- Carol Loar (University of South Carolina – Upstate), “The Edgefield Tragedy: Domestic Violence, Murder, and Lynching in late Nineteenth-Century South Carolina”
- Vann R. Newkirk (Alabama A&M), and Komanduri S. Murty (Fort Valley State), Rampage in Tuscumbia, Alabama
12:30 p.m., Lunch on your own
2-3 p.m., When Family, Law and Lynching Meet
- Jonathan Markovitz “From Lynching to Stand Your Ground and Stop-and-Frisk: Technologies of Fear and Surveillance”
- Connie Williams, (UNC Charlotte) “Story of a Hero and Anti-Lynching”
- Dionne Ford, “Taking My Space”
3:15-4:15 p.m., Manfred Berg (University of Heidelberg, Germany), Featured Speaker
