Schedule

8:00am - 9:00am Continental Breakfast

9:00am Welcome

Welcoming Remarks, Dean Sam Huckaba, College of Arts & Sciences

David Kirby, English, FSU "Gales of Helpless Laughter"

9:15am to 10:30am: Marchlands into Borderlands, the theme of Creating

Aubrey Lauersdorf, History, FSU

Tanya Peres, Anthropology, FSU

Moderator: Maximilian Scholz, History, FSU

10:30am to 10:45am Coffee Break

10:45am to 12:15pm: A Border Emerges, the theme of Consolidation

Alisha Gaines, English, FSU

Christine Rizzi, History, FSU

Andrew Zwilling, US Naval War College 

Moderator: Kathleen Conti, History, FSU

12:15pm to 1:15pm Lunch

1:15pm to 2:45pm: The Age of the Mason-Dixon Line, the theme of Fragmentation

Amanda Porterfield, Religion, FSU

Paul Renfro, History, FSU

Diane Roberts, English, FSU

Moderator: Robinson Herrera, History, FSU

2:45pm to 3:00pm coffee break

3:00pm to 4:30pm: The Significance of Mason-Dixon: A Conversation with Kathleen DuVal (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Jane Kamensky (President Thomas Jefferson Foundation/Emerita Harvard University), Mark Peterson (Yale University). Moderator: Katherine Mooney, History, FSU

*The Symposium will be recorded. It will not be Zoomed.*