2018 - The Present and the Future of the Past

Featured Speakers

Dr. James A. Clark, Professor of Southern Literature, Barton College

Dr. Gregory Hansen, Professor of Folklore and English, Arkansas State University

Dr. Gregory N. Reish, Director of the Center for Popular Music, Professor of Music History, Middle Tennessee State University

Dr. Martha Norkunas, Professor of Oral and Public History, Middle Tennessee State University

Dr. Paul S. Loeb, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Puget Sound

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

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Schedule
2018
Monday, September 17th
10:00 AM

Haunted: The Pasts That Are Still With Us

Douglas Murray, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

10:00 AM

12:00 PM

The Once and Future History of Neoplatonism: From Early Modernity to Postmodernity

Chance B. Woods, Vanderbilt University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

Re-interpreting Southeastern Indians and Andrew Jackson at the new Tennessee State Museum

Rob DeHart, Tennessee State Museum

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

‘We must establish incredible events by credible evidence’: Holocaust Denial and Historical Truth.

Douglas Bisson, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

2:00 PM

4:00 PM

History, Pseudohistory, and Propaganda: What History Is… and Isn’t.

Cynthia Bisson, Belmont University
Douglas Bisson, Belmont University
Brenda Jackson-Abernathy, Belmont University
Peter Kuryla, Belmont University
Daniel Schafer, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

Byron Herbert Reece: What Can We in the 21st Century Learn from ‘Georgia’s Farmer Poet’?

James A. Clark, Barton College

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

5:00 PM

Tuesday, September 18th
10:00 AM

Dancing with the Victorians in a Postmodern World

Annette Sisson PhD, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

Refinement Preserved for Eternity: A Study of Tennessee Samplers

Jennifer C. Core, Tennessee Historical Society

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

11:00 AM

1:00 PM

Yoga: An Ancient Practice in the Modern Landscape

Aretha Mckinney, 12South Iyengar Yoga Center of Nashville

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

When Propaganda Masquerades as History: The Case of the Soviet Union

Daniel Schafer, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

2:00 PM

4:00 PM

There’s More to Knowing than Seeing: Belmont in Iceland, a Case Study in the Value of Study in Study Abroad

Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

Heritage Friction/Heritage Values and the Work of Folklore

Gregory Hansen, Arkansas State University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

5:00 PM

Wednesday, September 19th
10:00 AM

Presenting and Representing the Past

Gregory Hansen, Arkansas State University
Martha Norkunas, Middle Tennessee State University
Gregory N. Reish, Middle Tennessee State University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

10:00 AM

12:00 PM

American Transcendentalism and the History of the Future

Andy Davis, Belmont University
Peter Kuryla, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

Who Put the Old in Old-Time? Revivalism, New Acoustic Music, and Fetishizing the Musical Past

Gregory N. Reish, Middle Tennessee State University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

1:00 PM

3:00 PM

The Anachronism of Greek Tragedy - in its Time and in our Own

Richard Rader, Montgomery Bell Academy

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

3:00 PM

5:00 PM

Mutable Pasts

Martha Norkunas, Middle Tennessee State University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

5:00 PM

Thursday, September 20th
10:00 AM

Race and the Rise of Professionalized Collection Methodology

Ashley Bouknight, Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

Narratology: “… in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers …”

Melanie Walton, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

11:00 AM

1:00 PM

Animated Antiquity: Cartoon Representations of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chiara Sulprizio, Vanderbilt University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

Knowing the Past: it’s not about the answers—it’s about the questions

Maggie Monteverde, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

2:00 PM

4:00 PM

Nietzsche’s Philosophical Understanding of the Historical Past and its Significance

Paul S. Loeb, University of Puget Sound

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

Listening to Voices Unheard

Early Music City

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

5:00 PM

Friday, September 21st
10:00 AM

Open Discussion: Philologoi

Mark Anderson, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

The Encyclopedic Imaginary: History, Synchrony, and the Organization of Knowledge

Daniel Selcer, Duquesne University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

11:00 AM

12:00 PM

Even Naïve “Explorers” Can Make History: The 1931 Matto Grosso Expedition

Eric Hobson, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

Each One Teach One

Gracie Blaising, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

Confronting Racism, Past and Present

Marcia McDonald, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

2:00 PM

Saturday, September 22nd
3:00 PM

Writing Workshop: “Writing the Past”

Jason Lovvorn, Belmont University
Sue Trout, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

3:00 PM

Sunday, September 23rd
4:00 PM

2018 Sandra Hutchins Humanities Symposium Writing Competition Reading and Celebration of Winning Entries

Susan Finch, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

4:00 PM

7:00 PM

I’m Just a Poet: All I Have Is Words

Nikki Giovanni

Curb Event Center

7:00 PM

Monday, September 24th
10:00 AM

Poetry Reading with Nikki Giovanni

Gary McDowell

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

10:00 AM