From Indiana Department of Natural Resources DNR/National UGRR: Conferences up for late October at Colgate and Yale

This is from an email we received from the Indiana DNR:

Friends:

Posted below are two announcements for upcoming conferences on the
abolition movement and the commemoration of the Harper's Ferry Raid of
1859. Additional information regarding these conferences are posted
below.
Feel free to share this announcement with others who may be interested
in attending.

Thanks!

BT

Barbara Tagger, Program Manager
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program National Park
Service, Southeast Region Atlanta Federal Center, 1924 Building 100
Alabama Street Atlanta, GA 30303
(404) 507-5635 (office)
(404) 562-3200 (fax)
http://www.nps.gov/ugrr
http://www.HarrietTubmanStudy.org
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NATIONAL ABOLITION HALL of FAME & MUSEUM
October 23 ~ 25, 2009
Colgate University in Hamilton NY and
Peterboro NY


Weekend events include:
Induction of Lewis Tappan and Theodore Dwight Weld with presentations
by
Fergus M. Bordewich
Carol Faulkner, Ph.D.
Hugh Humphreys
Owen W. Muelder
Paul Finkelman,Ph.D.
Keynote by Frederick Douglass at Annual Dinner
Upstate NY debut of film on Lydia Maria Child
Film Screening of Amistad
Magpie concert on John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry
Abolition Lyceum by Milton C. Sernett, Ph.D.



Info:
National Abolition Hall of Fame & Museum
5255 Pleasant Valley Road
Peterboro NY 13134-0055
www.abolitionhof.org
315-684-3262

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John Brown scholars speaking at the Yale event include Louis A. DeCaro, David Reynolds, John Stauffer, and composer Kirke Mechem.

John Brown, Slavery, and the Legacies of Revolutionary Violence in Our Own Time:
A Conference Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Harpers Ferry Raid

Gilder Lehrman Center's 11th Annual International Conference
October 29-31, 2009
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Thursday, October 29, William L. Harkness Hall, Room 201 (Sudler Hall), 100 Wall Street

Friday and Saturday, October 30-31, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Discussions of the place of violence -- its forms, its causes, its justice or injustice -- in American history often begin with John Brown and his exploits in Kansas and at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in the 1850s.
Brown's image has been appropriated by groups from the left and the right. He is a historical as well as a legendary figure, and often the myth overshadows the reality. This conference will explore the meaning and memory of John Brown as well as the problem of violence in American culture, past and present.

The conference will open on the evening of Thursday, October 29 with a performance of John Brown: Trumpet of Freedom by actor and playwright Norman Marshall. On Friday, October 30 and Saturday, October 31, conference panels will focus on four major themes:

John Brown: A Problem in Biography
John Brown and the Arts
John Brown and the Legacies of Violence
John Brown and Abolitionism
Concluding Roundtable: A Problem for Our Own Time
Conference Participants