Friday, February 21

1:30-1:45 Introductory Remarks (Kyle Morrow Room)
Dr. Kathleen Canning (Dean of the School of Humanities, Rice University)

2:00-3:20 pm Panel 1 (Kyle Morrow Room)
Memory, Censorship, and Archive: Accessing the Past
Comment: Dr. Lora Wildenthal (Rice University)
Chair: Serena Barbieri (Rice University)
“Locating Jewish Latinxs in the Archive: The 1980 Mariel Boatlift, Cuban Migration, and Performance,” Dr. Mark Goldberg (University of Houston)
“Things Left Unsaid Along the Archival Grain: Some Methodological Reflections on the Reporting of German Soldiers’ Suicides, 1914-1918,” Matthew Hershey (University of Michigan)
“Off Duty: Black Soldiers, Mexican Civilians, and Illicit Economies in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” Edward Valentín (Rice University)
“Between Silencing and Representation: Military Violence, Civilian Responses, and “Foreign” Archives in Modern Chinese History,” Zheng Guan (Princeton University)

4:00-5:00 pm Panel 2 (Kyle Morrow Room)
Engaging Digital Technologies
Comment: Dr. Caleb McDaniel (Rice University)
Chair: Nina David Nevill (Rice University)
“Slave Liberations in French West Africa: A Preliminary Digital Model,” Rebecca E. Wall (Stanford University)
“Testimonies against Slavery: What Text Analysis Can Tell Us about antislavery Discourse,” Sean Smith (Rice University)

5:15-6:30 pm Keynote Speakers (Kyle Morrow Room)

Dr. Keila Grinberg an Dr. Monica Lima (Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Past Presents: The Memory of Slavery and African Presence in Brazil

6:30-8:00 pm Reception (Humanities Building and Foyer)

Saturday, February 22

8:30-9:00 am Breakfast at Humanities Building (Foyer)

9:15-10:45 am Panel 3 (Kyle Morrow Room)
Limitations Beyond the Traditional Archive
Comment: Dr. Lan Li (Rice University)
Chair: Andrew Sanders (Rice University)
“Materiality, Technique and Quality as Historical Evidence in Graphic Satire,” Dr. Cynthia Roman (The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University)
” ‘Our Heaviest Conscience of History’: Carifesta and the Reimagining of Art Discourse in the Americas,” Adrienne Rooney (Rice University)
“Conspicuous Collectors: European Presence and Congolese Objects in Johannesburg, 1992 and 2019,” Emily Hardick (Ohio State University)
“Riel on Ice: Challenging Settler Narratives at Batoche National Historic Site, Canada,” Brendan Thomas (University of Oklahoma)

11:00-12:30 Panel 4 (Kyle Morrow Room)
Composed Storytelling through Past and Present
Comment: Dr. Leo Costello (Rice University)
Chair: Obi Dennar (Rice University)
“Object(ified) Biographies:  The Material Archive of U.S. Slavery,” Dr. Katie Knowles (Colorado State University) and Dr. Sarah J. Weicksel (Smithsonian Institution)
“The Split Ankh: Reconstructing Slave Narratives Across the Atlantic Through Oral History,” Dr. Mark Malisa (University of West Florida)
“The Gulf South Borderlands: Local and Circum-Caribbean Trade Networks and Collaboration, 1701-1721,” Jennnifer Levin (University of Virginia)

12:15-1:45 pm Lunch (Kyle Marrow Room-Serving)

2:00-3:30 pm Panel 5 (Kyle Morrow Room)
Framing Subversive Connections
Comment: Dr. Nicole A. Waligora-Davis (Rice University)
“Dogmas of the Vulgar: Epistemic Imperialism in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland (1798),” Timothy Grieve-Carlson (Rice University)
“Rubén Rendón Lozano’s Viva Tejas: Writing and Reclaiming Borderlands Histories in Interwar Texas,” Bryson Kisner (Rice University)
“The Erotic Geography of T. E. Lawrence’s Political Thought and Its Implications for the Study of Religion,” Anne Parker-Perkola (Rice University)

4:00-5:30 pm Keynote Speaker (Kyle Morrow Room)
Dr. Andrés Reséndez (University of California-Davis), The Other Slavery

5:30 pm Closing Remarks (Kyle Morrow Room)
Dr. Carl Caldwell (Department of History Chair, Rice University)