The Virginia Humanities Conference at Germanna Community College
March 2nd and 3rd, 2023
Disrupting Ideologies – Change, Challenges and Contests over Ideas
Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Kerri Moseley-Hobbs, the founder and director of More Than a Fraction, has work in education as both an administrator and researcher for over 20 years. She is a 5th generation descendent of John Fraction, the subject of her first Creative Nonfiction book “More Than A Fraction” and specializes in history of Africans in America, African Americans, and indigenous peoples of Maryland, the Southeast region.
The Zoom can be found below (one Zoom link for each day) and breakout rooms will be held for each session.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Renee Garris
Virginia Humanities Conference
Thursday, March 2
https://vccs.zoom.us/j/82527626027
9:00- 9:10 Welcome – Dr.Gray, President, Virginia Humanities Conference
9:10-10:10 – Panel 1
Session 1
Tracing (Counter)Stories in Confederate Monument Controversy
Co-Presenters: Dayman Parrish (Undergraduate, CNU ’24) &
Dr. Brooke Covington (Assistant Professor of English, CNU)
Legacies of Rage and Resistance: Building Social Justice in the 21 first Century Academy
Danny Tweddy (UMW)
Session 2
Teaching Multicultural literature using culture as the central point of disseminating meaning through: Jhumpa Lahiri’s “A Temporary Matter
Sunithi Gnanadoss (Germanna)
Guanyin and GOOD Violence of the Bodhisattva
John Thompson (VCU)
10:15-11:15 – Panel 2
Session 1
Teaching the Humanities Through Travel: Minoan Crete
Carol Campbell (Professor of Humanities, GCC, NOVA CC)
Session 2
Envisioning Desiderata: Art as a Tool for Projecting and Concretizing Solutions to Our Current Social, Political and Human Problems
Joe Dreiss (Professor of Art and Art History, UMW)
Interdisciplinary English as Social Justice: Dickens, Disney, and Popular Culture
Eric Lorentzen (UMW)
11:20-12:20 Panel 3
Session 1
Ugliness within Beauty: How the collaboration betwixt the Church and Government gives reason for Urban Criticism in Cervantes’ Rinconete y Cortadillo
Riley Parks (CNU)
The Face of the Earth Disrupts the Ideologies of Borders
Kip Redick (CNU)
Session 2
Collaboration at Every Level: The Centrality of Student Work to Digital Public Humanities – Roundtable
Janis Parker (U of Richmond), Dan Howlett, (GMU), Kathryn Ostrovky (U of Richmond), Jeff McClerklen (UMW)
12:30-1:30 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Kerri Moseley-Hobbs
1:45-2:45 – Panel 4
Session 1
Writing Roundtable – Jessica Perez, Germanna
Paper presentations – Jad Abielmona, CJ Walker, and Steven Laporte (Germanna Students)
Session 2
Marymount’s Buildings’ Namesakes-Racial Equity and a Legacy of Slavery
Maddy Diba (Marymount University)
How Art and Culture can Benefit Prisoners During and After Incarceration
Alexa Valverde (Germanna ‘24)
Friday, March 3
https://vccs.zoom.us/j/86755134397
9:00- 9:05 Welcome
9:05-10:05 Panel 5
Session 1
A Dangerous Humanities: Applying the Discipline’s Method to What is Uncomfortable in our Present World.
Christopher Martiniano (VCU) and Justin Cockrell, (VCU undergraduate ‘24)
The Immaterial Cloth: understanding expressions of gender and sexuality in the Anthropocene through computer/loom produced art
Justin Cockrell (Undergraduate, VCU ‘24)
Session 2
A Lighthouse of Language
Paul Fallon (UMW) and Ge’ez Frontier Foundation
The Agonies of Apathy: Mary Johnston and the Challenges of Inaction in the American Progressive Era
Clayton Brooks (Mary Baldwin)
10:15-11:00 Delegate Meeting to follow
