On November 29, William and Mary's Institute for Historical Biology (IHB), Africana Studies, and the Department of Anthropology will host a free symposium, "Archaeologies of Slavery & Memory in the Diaspora." This event will be held in the Sadler Center Commonwealth Auditorium from 2 - 6:30 pm.
In this half-day symposium, we will discuss how and why archaeology as a tool-set and disciplinary field has been central to both the "re"-discoveries of sites associated with slavery and to local reclamation and memorialization processes by descendant communities and their allies. Sites and memorialization efforts discussed will include New York’s African Burial Ground, Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom memorialization efforts and the East Marshall Street Well Project, the multi-national Slave Wrecks Project, and the Make the Ground Talk documentary. What subsequent public dialogues and societal impacts have emerged on histories muted by racist renditions?
2 – 3:30 pm: Presentations with Audience Q&A
- Dr. Michael L. Blakey, NEH Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology and American Studies, the College of William & Mary; Director of the IHB and co-Director of the Remembering Slavery, Resistance and Freedom Project
- Dr. Autumn R. Barrett, Co-Director of the Remembering Slavery, Resistance and Freedom Project and Senior Research Associate, IHB
- Dr. Joseph L. Jones, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, the College of William & Mary
4 pm: Special Guest Speaker with Audience Q&A
- Dr. Tania Andrade Lima, Museu Naciona /UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro and chief archaeologist on the discovery of the Valongo Wharf
5 – 6:15 pm: Panel Discussion
- Dr. Paul Gardulla, curator, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and Smithsonian member of the Slave Wrecks Project
- Dr. Ibrahima Thiaw, University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar and the Slave Wrecks Project
- Dr. Stephen Lubkemann, George Washington University and the Slave Wrecks Project
- Ana Edwards, Sacred Ground Reclamation Project
- Janet “Queen Nzinga” Taylor, East Marshall Well Project
- Brian Palmer and Erin Holloway, Make the Ground Talk documentary
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