Friday March 29

12-1pm - Begin Registration

1-1:15pm - Welcome (Dr. Matthew Gabriele)

1:15-2:45pm - Session "Civil War Nostalgia in the Later 19th Century"

Moderator: Dr. Paul Quigley (VT)

• "Calvinist Crusaders in Virginia: Jackson and McClellan, Milroy and Hunter, 1862-64"
  • Dr. John H. Matsui (VMI)
• "Nurturing 'The Daisy in the South': Poetic Landscape and Civil War Memory"
  • Kristen Hixon (Charleston Southern)
• "Confederate Historiography: Writing History from Freeman to Woodward"
  • Robert C. Baumgartner (Triton Regional HS)

Break

3:15-4:45pm - Roundtable "Sh** Academics Say (at UNC): The Impact of Academic Discourse Surrounding Silent Sam on Students of Color and Student Activism"

• Cortland Gilliam (Doctoral Student in Education - Cultural Studies and Literacies at UNC-Chapel Hill)
• Blaque Robinson (Doctoral Student in the Department of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill)
• Jennifer Standish (Ph.D. Student in the Department of History at UNC-Chapel Hill)
• Courtney Staton (Former Campus Y Co-President, Journalism and Psychology Major at UNC-Chapel Hill)

Break

5:15-6:45pm - Session "Crusade Nostalgia in the Later Middle Ages"

Moderator: Dr. Susanna Throop (Ursinus)

• "Defying Expectations: Dubays b. Ṣadaqa (fl. 1108-35) in the Crusading Era"
  • Dr. Eric Hanne (Florida Atlantic Univ.)
• "Books and the Postponement of History in 12th-Century Flanders"
  • Dr. Brad Phillis (Gardner-Webb)
• "Place Out of Time: The A-Chronicity of Jerusalem and the Crusades in Roger of Wendover’s Flores Historiarum"
  • Anna Lukyanova (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Reception for Registered Participants

(Dinner on Own)

Saturday March 30

8-9am - Continental Breakfast

9-10:15am - Keynote

"The Romance of Reconstruction: W.E.B. Du Bois' Dark Matter"

Prof. Matthew X Vernon (UC Davis)

Break

10:30-12pm - Session "Medievalism in the 21st Century"

Moderator: Dr. Shaily Patel (VT)

• "The Challenge of Authenticity: Legacies of 20th-Century Crusade Historiography in the New Millennium"
  • Jordan Amspacher (UT-Knoxville)
• "The White Ages: White Supremacists and Nostalgic Medievalism"
  • Dr. David Perry (Minnesota)
• "Engaging the Crusades in Context: The Ethics of Historical Work in 2019"
  • Dr. Susanna Throop (Ursinus)

12-1:30pm - Lunch for All Registered Attendees

1:30-3pm - Session "Issues On/ Around College Campuses"

Moderator: Dr. Lee Vinsel (VT)

• "How Historical Research Changed the World (or At Least a Building Name)"
  • Dr. Adam Domby (College of Charleston)
• "The Immortal, Fraternal Confederacy: The Knights of the Lost Cause on Campus"
  • Dr. Taulby Edmondson (VT)

Break

3:30-5pm - Session "Comparative Thoughts: Crusades & Civil War"

Moderator: Dr. David Perry (Minnesota)

• "Widening the Lens"
  • Dr. C.L. Higham (UNC-Charlotte)
• "The ‘Lost Cause’ and the ‘Beautiful Society’: Problematic Nostalgia in the Defeated Souths"
  • Dr. Thomas Lecaque (Grand View)
• "Crusade and Confederacy: Lost Causes"
  • Dr. Christopher Riedel (Albion)

Break

5:30-7pm - Concluding Roundtable "Teaching These Topics in a Time of White Supremacy"

Moderator: Dr. Matthew Gabriele (VT)

• Dr. Christine Baker (Indiana Univ-PA)
• Dr. Willa Brown (Harvard)
• Dr. Rebecca Hill (UCLA)
• Dr. John Terry (Westminster Schools)

(Dinner on Own)