2020 SYMPOSIUM AT A GLANCE
John Hope Franklin Center Programming for May 27 - June 2, 2020
2020 Reconciliation in America National Symposium and the 1st Community Remembrance Week
We have two major events for the week of May 27 - June 2, 2020
Event 1:
For our 9:00 am – 5:00 pm programming, The Reconciliation in America National Symposium is our 11th gathering of scholars and social advocates interested in the latest research and practices on reconciliation. This year the focus is on technology to achieve reconciliation & will be held online in a virtual format. The daytime event has registration costs of $50.
Event 2:
For our evening programming (after 5:00 pm), The Community Remembrance Week*, we have a selection of free events for the community. During these evenings, the history of Greenwood can be honored over four nights of events that allow community members to share memories, new insights & approaches, collaboration with diverse groups across Tulsa and the nation, along with a play that gives a glimpse into the Greenwood history. This event will be held online in a virtual format
*The Community Remembrance Week has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Oklahoma Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Below is a tentative agenda for both events for the week of May 27 - June 2, 2020.
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AGENDA
(All times in CST)
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Event Day One: Wednesday, May 27
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Speakers: John W. Franklin & Eli Grayson
Title: Slavery, Forced Migration & Land: African and Native Americans During and After Slavery
Description: The Africans encountered Native Americans and Europeans once they arrived from the slavery trade. This session will explore the relation of both Africans & Native Americans to the land, making use of historic maps that are not well known.
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Speaker: Dr. Pauline Harris
Title: Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" contribution to the 1921 Race Massacre
Description: D.W. Griffith’s technically groundbreaking but notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly Movie
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Speaker: Dr. Paula Price
Title: Reconciliation through Online Ministry
Description: In short, neutrality gives everyone access to opportunity. Social media’s pervasive platforms makeeveryone’s vision and mission adaptable and diversified; diversity being the very heart of reconciliation.
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Speakers: Karen Harmon & Dr. Gary Young-Allen
Title: Who Am I When No One's Looking: Color Me Human
Description: Skin color is intimately connected to social constructions of race.
Community Remembrance Event* - Free to the Public
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Keynote Speaker: Samuel Sinyangwe
Wednesday Keynote Speaker
Click here to learn more about Samuel Sinyangwe
*The Community Remembrance Week has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Oklahoma Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Event Day Two: Thursday, May 28
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Speakers: David Adams & Miguel Da Corte
Title: Using Change Management for Effective Reconciliation
Description: Understanding the people side of change as a means of building an effective, sustainable reconciliation plan.
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Jorsch
Title: The Oldest Technology: Natural Resources as Neutral Resources
Description: Urban environmental rehabilitation projects organized and led by aggrieved communities offer possibilities to restore not only the physical landscape, but community relations, dignity, and spiritual connection to humanity.
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Speakers: Kristen Marangoni & Gay Phillips
Title: Mapping Greenwood
Description: Several service-learning courses at TCC are working together toward a geo-tagged map of the Greenwood and surrounding areas to help facilitate self-guided walking tours of the area.
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Speakers: Jeffrey Kennedy, Rhonda Grayson, Damario Solomon, Sharon Lenzy-Scott
Title: Exploring the Culture & History of the Creek Freedmen of Indian Territory
Description: Exploring the culture and History of the Creek Freedmen of Indian Territory
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Speakers: Jim North
Title: The Keyboard: Mightier than the Sword
Description: Storytelling through publication, online and print
Community Remembrance Event - Free to the Public
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Speakers: Captola Dunn & Carolyn Ellis, joined by Gage Banks & Harrison Hardman
Disucssion Facilitator: Quraysh Ali Lansana, Tulsa Artist Fellow
Description: Conversation between the Elders & Youth on heritage and technology to bridge the gap of generational sharing and knowledge and respect.
To better prepare for this session, click on the links below to view videos created by Ms. Dunn & Ms. Ellis.
Event Day Three: Friday, May 29
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Speaker: Rev. Robert Johnson
Title: Prophetic Faith in Current American Politics
Description: Equipping people of faith to be a prophetic - and not partisan - presence in the current dilemma of American politics
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Speakers: Kayla G. Harding
Title: Acknowledging Cultural Bias
Description: Learning how to define implicit bias, cultural bias, implicit social cognition, and realated terms
11:30 PM - 12:15 PM
Speakers: Dr. Dewayne Dickens, Vanessa Komara, & Jean Neal
Title: Don't Forget Your Past: Using Technology to Preserve the Greenwood History
Description: Using technology to provide educators with material that covers the 1921 Race Riot/Massacre, Black Wall Street, and the people and places of the Historic Greenwood District
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Speakers: Kayla G. Harding & Cathy Bankstom
Title: Empowering Students’ Language and Literacy Capital/Acknowledging Cultural Bias
Description: Using culturally relevant practices, we offer practical ways instructors can construct language curricula in order to “transform and enrich the lives” of all students.
Community Remembrance Event* - Free to the Public
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Gilcrease Museum: Display Tour
Friday Evening Session
Description: Virtual Display and Explanation of Museum Holdings with Brief Discussion
*The Community Remembrance Week has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Oklahoma Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Event Day Four: Monday, June 1
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Speaker: M. von Nkosi
Title: Pinning the World: Reconciliation Through Realities
Description: Move a Reconciliation Agenda Forward from Your Pocket
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Speaker: Ronald Graham, Sr.
Title: The Indian Territory Freedmen Saga
Description: How can restorative justice initiatives earn the trust of a public in unwitting complexity with civic structures that perpetuate social injustices and related human rights violations?
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Speaker: Veronica Jackson
Title: Museum Presentation: Humanizing the Heretofore Voiceless in Museum Exhibits
Description: Humanizing the Heretofore Voiceless in Museum Exhibits: From HOW exhibits tell stories to WHAT and more importantly, WHOSE stories are told.
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Speaker: Theophus "Thee" Smith
Title: Trust building Truth speaking vs. 'Deepfake Justice'
Description: How Can Restorative Justice Initiatives Earn the Trust of a Public in Unwitting Complicity with Civic Structures that Perpetuate Social Injustices and Related Human Rights Violations?
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Carlos Moreno
Title: Civic Technology and Social Justice
Description: Civic Technology seeks to create a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, in the 21st Century
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Speaker: Daniel Snell
Title: Is There an APP for Empathy?
Description: Historical Fiction Can Teach Empathy
Community Remembrance Event* - Free to the Public
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Speakers: Vanessa Adams-Harris & Dr. Sally Ann Drucker
Title: Hidden in Plain Sight and Site: Who Will Tell Our Stories?
Description: Vanessa Adams-Harris & Dr. Sally Ann Drucker present two women, Dr. Cecelia Nails-Palmer and Etunia (Ethel) Bauer Katz, who valued education enough to tell us their stories of courage and survival. Of use as primary resources, these stories speak of places occupied and experiences lived under difficulties and traumas. Learning to listen is important for generations to come. Unmasking a story in plain sight and site is survival.
To better prepare for this theatrical presentation, click here to view the introduction to the play.
*The Community Remembrance Week has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Oklahoma Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Event Day Five: Tuesday, June 2
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Speakers: Drew Diamond & Nancy Pettus
Title: Why So Few?
Description: Community upstanders, why we need them
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Speakers: Timothy Janak & Carmen Janak
Title: Illuminating or Obstructing? Society’s Portrayals of Interracial Couples
Description: Interracial Couples and intersectionality of race and reconciliation discussions
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Speaker: Mikael Vaughn
Title: Urban Coders Guild's Black Wall Street
Description: Building an ecosystem honoring the living legacy of Black Wall Street
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Speaker: Lisa Iverson
Title: Genealogy: Ambassador for Reconciliation
Description: How genealogy in combination with systemic family constellation methods can be a tool for ending patterns of racism
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Speakers: Avery Marshall & Moises Echeverria
Title: Use of Technology After Camp Anytown
Description: This workshop is a look into how youth use technology after being exposed to diversity, equity, and inclusion concepts.