FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024
4:30pm-5:15pm
DROP IN REGISTRATION AND WELCOME
The Alsop House
301 High Street, Middletown, CT
5:30pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall
Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University
INTRODUCTION
Katherine Kuenzli
Professor of Art History and Chair, Department of Art and Art History, Wesleyan University
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Tara Dudley
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin
The Ties that Bind: Race, Gender, and Preservation at the Periphery of the Forty Acres
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024
Hot and cold beverages will be provided, starting at 8:15am at the Alsop House dining room and Ring Family Performing Arts Hall lobby
8:15am–8:45am
DROP IN REGISTRATION AND WELCOME
The Alsop House
301 High Street, Middletown, CT
9am–11:40am
MORNING PRESENTATIONS
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall
Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University
Joseph Siry
Professor of Art History, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the Humanities, Wesleyan University
Russell House and Alsop House: The Villa as Style and Ideology
Jesse Nasta
Assistant Professor of the Practice in African American Studies, Wesleyan University
The Other Side of Foss Hill: Middletown, Connecticut’s Beman Triangle as an Early Black Activist Space, 1828–1860
Suzy Taraba
Dietrich Family Director of Special Collections and Archives (Retired,) Wesleyan University
“Erected on Faith:” Willbur and Ruth Peck Fisk‘s House, Colonization, and Women’s Stories
11:45am–12:45pm
LUNCH
Daniel Family Commons
Third floor of Wesleyan‘s Usdan University Center, 45 Wyllys Avenue
1:00pm–3:30pm
SITE VISITS
Guided tours will be offered at each location at 1:15pm, 2:00pm, and 2:45pm. A sign-up sheet will be available at the symposium registration on Friday evening and again on Saturday morning. All groups should plan to meet at 1pm outside the Ring Family Performing Arts Hall.
Russell House, 350 High Street
Led by Alain Munkittrick
Partner, Munkittrick Associates, LLC
Alsop House, 301 High Street
Led by Elizabeth Milroy
Professor of Art Emerita, Wesleyan University
Lecturer in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania
Beman Triangle, Bounded by Cross Street, Vine Street & Knowles Avenue (Guided tour will meet outside the Wesleyan’s Cross Street Dance Studio, 160 Cross Street)
Led by AME Zion Church Historian Mardi Loman and Wesleyan Assistant Professor of the Practice in African American Studies Jesse Nasta
Hot and cold beverages will be provided, starting at 3:00pm at the Alsop House dining room and Ring Family Performing Arts Hall lobby
3:45pm – 4:45pm
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall
Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University
Elizabeth Milroy (moderator)
Tara Dudley, Joe Siry, Jesse Nasta, and Suzy Taraba
Ahmed M. Badr, Director, Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Wesleyan University
This event is sponsored by Wesleyan’s Art and Art History department, Virgil and Juwil Topazio Fund, Dean’s Office, African American Studies program, and American Studies department.