Conference Honors Professor Ira Berlin
Conference Honors Professor Ira Berlin
Please join us on April 9 and 10, 2015, for a conference honoring the work of Professor Ira Berlin. Entitled Slavery, Freedom, and the Remaking of American History, this event will feature presentations by former students of Dr. Berlin and by past or present members of the Freedmen & Southern Society Project.
The conference is free and open to the public; no registration is required.
NOTE: Frederick Douglass Statue Fund
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Slavery, Freedom, and the Remaking of American History
A Conference in Honor of Ira Berlin
April 9-10, 2015
University of Maryland, College Park
McKeldin Library Special Events Room (6137)
§ former student of Ira Berlin
‡ past or present member of the Freedmen & Southern Society Project
Thursday, April 9
9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30-11:30 Maneuvering Within, Against, and Out of Slavery
Chair: § Edna Greene Medford, Howard University
Beyond Manumission: Slave Emancipations and the (Re-)Invention of Freedom
‡ Julie Saville, University of Chicago
Taking Canaan: Nat Turner's War against Slavery
‡ Anthony E. Kaye, Pennsylvania State University
Another Type of Passage: African-American Community in the Slave-Exporting Center of Georgetown
§ Mary Beth Corrigan, Independent Scholar
By Land and by Water: The Problem of Mobility in American Slavery
‡ Susan Eva O'Donovan, University of Memphis
1:00-3:00 Free Blacks in a World of Slavery
Chair: ‡ Michael K. Honey, University of Washington, Tacoma
Slavery and Freedom in New Orleans' Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
§ Jessica Marie Johnson, Michigan State University
Human Trafficking, Internal Black Migration, and the Rise of the Deep South in Jacksonian America
§ M. Scott Heerman, Johns Hopkins University
Presumption of Guilt: Race, Liberty, and Policing in the Early Republic
‡ Kate Masur, Northwestern University
Salvador v. Turner: Black Litigants, Citizenship, and Local Courts in the Antebellum American South
§ Kimberly M. Welch, West Virginia University
3:15 An Assessment and Appreciation of the Scholarship of Ira Berlin
Chair: ‡ Barbara J. Fields, Columbia University
Ira Berlin and the Making of the American Working Class
‡ Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania
4:30-6:00 Reception
The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora (1207 Cole Student Activities Building)
Friday, April 10
9:00-10:45 Emancipation and the U.S. Civil War
Chair: ‡ Steven F. Miller, University of Maryland
Relief, Surveillance, and Discipline in the Civil War Refugee Camp
‡ Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
The Abolition of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley
‡ John C. Rodrigue, Stonehill College
Transforming Medicine: Race and the U.S. Civil War
‡ Leslie A. Schwalm, University of Iowa
11:00-12:00 The Law and the Constitution in the Aftermath of Emancipation
Chair: ‡ Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Not by Reason of Color Alone: Class and Character in Ex-Slaves' Encounters with the Law, 1865-1867
‡ Leslie S. Rowland, University of Maryland
Making History, Making the Constitution: The Fifteenth Amendment in American Political Culture, 1870-1920
‡ Stephen A. West, The Catholic University of America
1:15-2:45 War and the Transformation of African-American Life: Reflections on Ira Berlin's Scholarship
Chair: § Herbert Brewer, Morgan State University
Time, Space, and the Dissolution of Afro-American Slavery in the American Civil War
‡ Joseph P. Reidy, Howard University
The Black Military Experience and the Social History of Soldiers
§ Donald R. Shaffer, American Public University
Military Service as a Migratory Experience: World War II and the Third Great Migration
§ Douglas Bristol, Jr., University of Southern Mississippi
3:00-4:00 Personal Reflections on Ira Berlin's Influence
Chair: § Cynthia M. Kennedy, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Atlantic Creoles and Global Competencies, Past and Present
§ Sarah Russell, Duke University
Seen and Unseen: First Ladies and Slaves
§ Marie Jenkins Schwartz, University of Rhode Island
Of Road Scholars and Historians against Slavery: Ira Berlin's Influence as a Public Intellectual
§ Matthew Mason, Brigham Young University