SCHEDULE

Thursday, January 19th

• 3:00 pm: Check-in begins, St. Mary’s Sewanee

• 6:00 pm: Keynote address by Earl Lewis, "Our Violent Past: Unfree Labor, Terrorism, and the Search for Repair," Convocation Hall at The University of the South (open to the public)

• 7:30 pm: Dinner with Speaker Introductions, St. Mary’s Sewanee Dining Room

Friday, January 20th

• 7:30 am: Continental Breakfast, Dining Room

• 8:00 am: Earl Lewis - Exploring Keynote Address, Common Room

• 9:15 am: Panel 1 and Discussion, McRae Room

  • Juyoun Jang, "The Humanizing Black Space in Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped and Sing, Unburied, Sing."

  • Jeff Keith and Kevin Kehrberg, "Song of the Unsung: The Swannanoa Tunnel, the Incarcerated Laborers Who Built It, and the Meanings of Appalachian Music"

• 10:30am: Panel 2 and Discussion, McRae Room

  • Douglas A. Blackmon, "Bricks, Backs, and Banks: Unfree Labor in the Making of Modern Atlanta"

  • Brian Giemza, "From the Coal Creek War to Brushy Mountain to the Maloney Poor House: A Brief History of Unfree Labor and Containment Schemes in East Tennessee (with Apologies to Cormac McCarthy)"

• 12:30 pm: Lunch, Dining Room

• 1:00 pm: Camille Westmont will give an Overview of the Lone Rock Stockade Project, Dining Room

• 1:30 pm: Field Trip to Lone Rock Stockade

• 6:00 pm: Dinner featuring a performance by the Cherry Creek Ramblers, Dining Room and Fireplace Room

Saturday, January 21st

• 8:00 am: Continental Breakfast, Dining Room

• 9:00 am: Teaching Workshop with Kevin Gannon, McRae Room

• 12:00 pm: Lunches to-go, Dining Room