Thursday, April 18th
Carnegie Library, 200 W 9th Street

4:00 – 5:00 PM. Registration

Registration and Check-in at the Carnegie Library

Photo booth and information table, hosted by Steven Wang, Co-PI of Stories for All

5:00 – 7:00 PM. Welcome Reception

Welcome Reception, catered by Merchants Pub and Plate

Register for the Reception here.

7:00 – 8:30 PM. Keynote Panel

Alex Ketchum – The Feminist Restaurant Project
Eric Gonzaba – Wearing Gay History
Kelly Baker Josephs – The Caribbean Digital
Natchee Barnd – Native Space
Facilitated by Giselle Anatol, Director of the Hall Center for the Humanities and PI of Stories for All

Learn more about the Keynote Panelists here.

Friday, April 19th
Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont Street

10:00 – 10:30 AM. Registration

Registration and Check-in at the Lawrence Public Library

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM. Panel Presentation Breakouts

12:00 – 1:30 PM. Lunch Break

Exhibits on display in the Auditorium

• Denise Sherman, Executive Director, The Kansas African American Museum | Dockum Drug Store Sit-In Virtual Reality Project
• Maria Velasco, Professor, Visual Art, University of Kansas | Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms
• Chloe Willett, Exhibition Coordinator, American Jazz Museum | Trading Fours: An Oral Exchange on Jazz Musical Influence and Biography

1:30 – 3:15 PM. Funders’ Forum

(Auditorium)

Get tips and advice about getting grants from a variety of different funding agencies, from private foundations to state and federal funders.

• Julie Mulvihill, Executive Director, Humanities Kansas
• Katie Winter, Director, Winter School; and Board Member, Douglas County Community Foundation
• Patricia Brooks, Deputy Director, National Endowment for the Humanities

3:15 – 3:30 PM. Break

3:30 – 5:00 PM. Panel Presentation Breakouts

5:00 – 6:00 PM. Break

6:00 – 7:30 PM. Birds of a Feather Dinner with Moderators

7:30 – 9:00 PM. Film Screenings

Film Screenings held at Ready for Good, 708 Connecticut Street (map)

• Finding La Yarda: A digital storytelling art installation (clip)
  Marlo Angell, Project Director / Filmmaker, Lawrence Arts Center
  Peter Jasso, Filmmaker, Incomplete Films
  Ben Ahlvers, Exhibitions Director, Lawrence Arts Center
  Blanca Herrada, Exhibitions Coordinator, Lawrence Arts Center
  Johnathan Christensen Caballero, Artist, Lawrence Arts Center
  Ann Dean, Photographer, Lawrence Arts Center
• Kansas: An Eclogue (trailer)
  Patrick Ross, Independent Filmmaker
  Joshua Nathan, Independent Filmmaker
• SITEs Unseen: Preserving New Mexico’s Culture
  Bethany Tabor, Program Officer, New Mexico Humanities Council
• Untold Stories: Former Enslaved Americans Who Sought Freedom in Lawrence, KS (clip)
  Marla Arna Jackson, Director, African American Quilt Museum and Textile Academy
  Directed by Sean Blake & Marvell Fight
  Cinematography by Jeremy Osbern
  Sound Recording by Nathan Towns
  Edited by Sean Blake
• The Evolution of Black History (Building Black Kansas City project)
  Dr. William “Bill” Tuttle
  Dr. David Katzman
  Dr. John Edgar Tidwell
• Fairway Fairness (clip) (Building Black Kansas City project)
  Carmaletta Williams, Executive Director, Black Archives of Mid-America
• BLINK!
  Cia Cole, B.L.A.C.K. Lawrence
• Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms
  María Velasco, Professor, Visual Art, University of Kansas
  Valerie Mendoza, Independent Public Historian
  Matt Jacobson, Professor, Film and Media Studies, University of Kansas
  Donna Rae Pearson, Local Historian, Kitchen Table History
• Who Gets To Parent?
  Pere DeRoy, Doctoral Candidate, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Kansas
  Timmia Heard DeRoy, Assistant Professor, Directing and Social Justice Theatre, University of California, Berkeley
• Bench by the Road Stories: The Stories of the Bench by the Road Project
  Carolyn Denard, Founder and Board Chair, The Toni Morrison Society
  Craig Stutman, Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, Delaware Valley University
• Films by rePRO available on their website archive
  Lela Meadow-Conner, Curator/Producer/Founder, mama.film
  Mallory Martin, Co-Founder, rePRO Film, Artistic Director, Artistic Director, Cleveland International Film Festival
  Kylie Brown, repRO Film Digital Director, Livefree Lab
  Neha Aziz, rePRO Film Programmer, Programmer at Cleveland International Film Festival, Austin Asian American Film Festival, Podcaster
  Asha Dahya, rePRO Podcast Host, Author, TEDx speaker and founder of GirlTalkHQ.com
  Emily Christensen, rePRO Periodical Copywriter
  Jill Lafer, rePRO Consultant

Saturday, April 20th
Carnegie Library, 200 W 9th Street

10:00 – 10:30 AM. Registration

Registration and Check-in at the Carnegie Library

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM. Presentation Breakouts

12:00 – 1:30 PM. Lunch Break

Exhibits on display in the Auditorium

• Marlo Angell, Project Director/Filmmaker, Lawrence Arts Center | Finding La Yarda: A digital storytelling art installation
• Nasir Anthony Montalvo, transdisciplinary artist-archivist | “Soakie’s”: Downtown Kansas City’s former Black gay bar (as archived through {B/qKC}, The Kansas City Defender)
• Rachel Schwaller, Multi-Term Lecturer | “Unsettled Lawrence”: Challenging Collective Memory of Settlement Through the Oral and Public Histories of Unhoused Populations in Lawrence

1:30 – 3:00 PM. Workshops & Performances

3:00 – 4:00 PM. Break

4:00 – 6:00 PM. Closing Reception

Closing Reception catered by Merchants Pub and Plate

Photo booth and information table, hosted by Steven Wang, Co-PI of Stories for All

Register for the Closing Reception here.