Open to the Public

Some events will be open to all, whether registered for the annual meeting or not. Read on below for more information, and register for any you’re interested in. Full descriptions and participant bios can be found in the conference Program.

Please note that by attending these events you must adhere to the NCPH Events Code of Conduct.

Rhetoric(s) of Freedom: A Conversation about the Conditions of Black Life in the Age of the American Revolution: PART ONE

Monday, MArch 6, 2023 | 9:00 – 10:00 PM Eastern | virtual

Our group of public humanities scholars and practitioners will examine this theme with a care for what it means to leverage recent scholarship, while also doing this work within public history spaces. It considers the social, economic, political, and intellectual worlds of African Americans in their quest to live out the full meaning of freedom. The program pays attention to nuances and various ways that geography and ecology shaped the idea of black freedom. In so doing, presenters also will foreground the important place that shifting methodologies play in this discussion. The second part of the discussion will take place at the NCPH Annual Meeting. Sponsored by the National Park Service.

Facilitator: Sylvea Hollis, Montgomery College
Participants: Yveline Alexis, Oberlin College
Ista Clarke, Charleston County Parks Department
Maya Davis, Riversdale House Museum
Marcus Nevius, University of Missouri

You can now watch the discussion on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70tb2jbGbZE.

considering the revolution: the Rhetoric of Freedom (PART two)

wednesday, April 12, 2023 | 8:00 – 9:30 PM Eastern | Location TBA

Join us for the third in a series of five roundtables designed to explore and interrogate the American Revolution ahead of the 250th anniversary. Designed as a three-part suite of programming, a virtual roundtable grounding us in the history and scholarship of slavery, freedom, and the Revolution will be held in March 2023 ahead of the annual meeting. Second, this in-person opening plenary will allow conference attendees to dig deeper into the theme “The Rhetoric of Freedom” with our facilitator and scholars in a more conversational style. We’ll follow up with a concurrent session on Thursday of the conference that is designed to provide support for interpreters and strategies as they engage our publics in these essential conversations. Co-sponsored by the National Park Service and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

This plenary is free and open to conference attendees and non-attendees alike who are in Atlanta, GA, no advance registration required.

Part Three of this series is a session being held Thursday, April 13, at 10:30 am – “Interpreting Slavery and Revolution: Safe Space and Vent Session.” This session is only open to conference attendees. Sponsored by the National Park Service.

Public Plenary | After the Party It’s the Waffle House: Interpreting and Preserving the Hip Hop South

Friday, April 14, 2023 | 6:00 – 7:30 PM Eastern | Big Bethel AME Church (220 Auburn Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA)

This year’s public plenary is a conversation between three influential and award-winning educators and activists whose work explores the meanings, interpretations, and spaces of the hip hop genre, which has shaped Atlanta indelibly since the Civil Rights Movement. Experts on the hip hop south Regina Bradley, author of Chronicling Stankonia, and Maurice Hobson, author of The Legend of the Black Mecca, are joined by architect and designer Michael Ford, founder of the Hip Hop Architecture Camp and recent architect of the Bronx Hip Hop Museum, to talk about the stamp hip hop leaves on cities like Atlanta, public interpretations of hip hop, and the role it can play in community-building and education. Sponsored by Georgia Humanities.

Participants: Regina Bradley, Kennesaw State University
Michael Ford, The Hip Hop Architecture Camp and BrandNu Design
Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University

This plenary is free and open to conference attendees and non-attendees alike who are in Atlanta, GA, no advance registration required.