{"id":1382,"date":"2023-02-23T15:25:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vahumanitiesconference.org\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:25:45","slug":"2023-schedule-and-program-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vahumanitiesconference.org\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"2023 Schedule and Program Now Available!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Virginia Humanities Conference at Germanna Community College<\/strong><\/h2>\n

March 2nd<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup>, 2023<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Disrupting Ideologies – Change, Challenges and Contests over Ideas<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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 \u201cMore Than A Fraction\u201d and specializes in history of Africans in America, African Americans, and indigenous peoples of Maryland, the Southeast region.<\/p>\n

The Zoom can be found below (one Zoom link for each day) and breakout rooms will be held for each session.<\/p>\n

We look forward to seeing you there!<\/p>\n

Renee Garris<\/p>\n

Virginia Humanities Conference<\/p>\n

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Thursday, March 2<\/h2>\n

https:\/\/vccs.zoom.us\/j\/82527626027<\/a><\/p>\n

9:00- 9:10 Welcome<\/strong> –\u00a0 Dr.Gray, President, Virginia Humanities Conference<\/em><\/p>\n

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9:10-10:10 – Panel 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tracing (Counter)Stories in Confederate Monument Controversy<\/u><\/p>\n

Co-Presenters: Dayman Parrish (Undergraduate, CNU ’24) &<\/p>\n

Dr. Brooke Covington (Assistant Professor of English, CNU)<\/p>\n

Legacies of Rage and Resistance: Building Social Justice in the 21 first Century Academy<\/u><\/p>\n

Danny Tweddy (UMW)<\/p>\n

Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Teaching Multicultural literature using culture as the central point of disseminating meaning through: Jhumpa Lahiri\u2019s \u201cA Temporary Matter<\/u><\/p>\n

Sunithi Gnanadoss (Germanna)<\/p>\n

Guanyin and GOOD Violence of the Bodhisattva<\/u><\/p>\n

John Thompson (VCU)<\/p>\n

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10:15-11:15 – Panel 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Teaching the Humanities Through Travel: Minoan Crete<\/u><\/p>\n

Carol Campbell (Professor of Humanities, GCC, NOVA CC)<\/p>\n

Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Envisioning Desiderata: Art as a Tool for Projecting and Concretizing Solutions to Our Current Social, Political and Human Problems<\/u><\/p>\n

Joe Dreiss (Professor of Art and Art History, UMW)<\/p>\n

Interdisciplinary English as Social Justice: Dickens, Disney, and Popular Culture<\/u><\/p>\n

Eric Lorentzen (UMW)<\/p>\n

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11:20-12:20<\/strong> Panel 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ugliness within Beauty: How the collaboration betwixt the Church and Government gives reason for Urban Criticism in Cervantes\u2019 Rinconete y Cortadillo <\/em><\/u><\/p>\n

Riley Parks (CNU)<\/p>\n

The Face of the Earth Disrupts the Ideologies of Borders<\/u><\/p>\n

Kip Redick (CNU)<\/p>\n

Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Collaboration at Every Level: The Centrality of Student Work to Digital Public Humanities <\/u>– Roundtable<\/p>\n

Janis Parker (U of Richmond), Dan Howlett, (GMU), Kathryn Ostrovky (U of Richmond), Jeff McClerklen (UMW)<\/p>\n

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12:30-1:30 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Kerri Moseley-Hobbs<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1:45-2:45 – Panel 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writing Roundtable<\/u> – Jessica Perez, Germanna<\/p>\n

Paper presentations –<\/em> Jad Abielmona, CJ Walker, and Steven Laporte\u00a0 (Germanna Students)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marymount’s Buildings’ Namesakes-Racial Equity and a Legacy of Slavery<\/u><\/p>\n

Maddy Diba (Marymount University)<\/p>\n

How Art and Culture can Benefit Prisoners During and After Incarceration<\/u><\/p>\n

Alexa Valverde (Germanna \u201824)<\/p>\n

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Friday, March 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n

https:\/\/vccs.zoom.us\/j\/86755134397<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:00- 9:05 Welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:05-10:05 Panel 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Dangerous Humanities: Applying the Discipline\u2019s Method to What is Uncomfortable in our Present World.<\/u><\/p>\n

Christopher Martiniano (VCU) and Justin Cockrell, (VCU undergraduate \u201824)<\/p>\n

The Immaterial Cloth: understanding expressions of gender and sexuality in the Anthropocene through computer\/loom produced art<\/u><\/p>\n

Justin Cockrell (Undergraduate, VCU \u201824)<\/p>\n

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Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Lighthouse of Language<\/u><\/p>\n

Paul Fallon (UMW) and Ge\u2019ez Frontier Foundation<\/p>\n

The Agonies of Apathy: Mary Johnston and the Challenges of Inaction in the American Progressive Era<\/u><\/p>\n

Clayton Brooks (Mary Baldwin)<\/p>\n

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10:15-11:00\u00a0 Delegate Meeting <\/strong>to follow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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