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NOV 5 AT 3 PM \u2013 NOV 7 AT 2 PM PDT<\/strong><\/p>\n See full details and register at https:\/\/www.gsd.harvard.edu\/event\/landscapes-of-slavery-landscapes-of-freedom-the-african-diaspora-and-the-american-built-environment\/?fbclid=IwAR2vx3Fx1zRmLDAUdV94Yjm4G8JGGzkkoqVaA2crraKNHEeXSP1VGWG9AO8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n This forum brings together scholars whose research investigates the relationship between the African diaspora, Afro-descendants, and the built environment of North America and the Caribbean from a variety of lenses that are specific to the scholars\u2019 fields of inquiry. The goal is to begin to expand the field of landscape history by taking into consideration questions that are not always deemed central to the practice of design, if design is understood as an activity that has featured\u2014in the historical narratives\u2014the presence of an author-designer, a client, and a variety of tools the former has used to communicate ideas about form, materials and use, to the latter.<\/p>\n By its very cross-disciplinary nature and topical organization, this forum questions a traditional mode of history writing that is based both on the description of linear developments and on the exclusive use of archival and written sources. Instead it argues for a relational historiography that considers what methods and what traces\u2014written, spoken, or material, and whether found on the land\u2019s surface or below\u2014may allow us to tell the story of the Black North American and Caribbean landscape of enslaved people, maroons and freemen. Without arguing for the obliteration of what is already known about the landscape of plantations and the settlements of early America, essays presented at this symposium will ultimately produce a landscape history that, paraphrasing \u00c8douard Glissant, is latent, open, multicultural in intention, and directly in contact with everything possible.<\/p>\n Friday, November 5, 2021<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n 6 PM<\/span> Introduction by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto, Conference Chair<\/span><\/p>\n 6:10 \u2013 7:30 PM Saturday,\u00a0November\u00a06<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 10 \u2013 10:20 AM 10:20 \u2013 11:50 AM Hoeing, Harvesting, Healing & Hexing: The Earth and its Cultivation as Tools of Resistance to Enslavement Forgotten Witnesses: Exploring Archaeological Sites of Labor at a Presidential Plantation 11:50 AM \u2013 1 PM 1:30 \u2013 3 PM Nowhere and Everywhere: The Archaeological Footprint of Afro-Descendants on the Urban Landscape of 16th<\/sup>-Century Spanish Hispaniola The Plantation Cityscape:\u00a0Slave Labor as a Circulatory System in the Urbanization of Colonial New Orleans<\/span><\/i> 3 \u2013 3:30 PM 3:30 \u2013 5 PM \u201cThe Fences Have Flown\u201d: Unsettling Enclosure in Narratives of Black Spatial Practice<\/span><\/i> Landscape, Memory, and the History of Slavery in Mississippi<\/span><\/i> Sunday, November 7, 2021<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n 10 \u2013 11:30 AM Muted Place and Free Settlement Icons<\/span><\/em> Working Freedom: Black Farmers and Industrious Landscapes in Maryland, 1866-1880<\/span><\/i> 11:30 AM \u2013 1 PM 1 \u2013 3 PM Toward a Black Historical Ecology of the Atlantic World<\/span><\/i> Beneath the Surfaces of Historical Landscapes: Archaeology, African and Indigenous Diasporic Communities, and the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina Living Freedom in the Maroon Landscape: An Ecological Way of Life 3 \u2013 3:15 PM \u00a0<\/p>\n Michael W. Twitty<\/strong>\u00a0is a living history interpreter, culinary historian, and food writer personally charged with teaching, documenting, and preserving the African American culinary traditions of the historic South and its connections with the wider African Atlantic world as well as parent traditions in Africa. He blogs at\u00a0Afroculinaria.com<\/a>. He\u2019s appeared on\u00a0Bizarre Foods America<\/em>\u00a0with Andrew Zimmern,\u00a0Many Rivers to Cross<\/em>\u00a0with Henry Louis Gates, and most recently\u00a0Taste the Nation<\/em>\u00a0with\u00a0Top Chef<\/em>\u2018s Padma Lakshmi and a special guest appearance in Michelle Obama’s\u00a0Waffles and Mochi<\/em>\u00a0show on Netflix. HarperCollins released Twitty\u2019s\u00a0The Cooking Gene<\/em><\/a>, in 2017, tracing his ancestry through food from West and Central Africa to America and from slavery to freedom.\u00a0The Cooking Gene<\/em>\u00a0won the 2018 James Beard Award for best writing as well as the book of the year, making him the first Black author so awarded. His piece on visiting Ghana in\u00a0Bon Appetit<\/em>\u00a0was included in Best Food Writing in 2019 and was nominated for a 2019 James Beard Award. Twitty’s next book,\u00a0Rice<\/em><\/a>\u00a0with UNC press, is currently fresh off the presses.\u00a0Koshersoul<\/em>, about his culinary journey as a Jew of African descent, will be out in 2022 through HarperCollins. He was most recently named a National Geographic Explorer in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3815,"featured_media":34062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11],"tags":[4,50,40,127,141,13,131,9,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43960,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43959\/revisions\/43960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Schedule<\/h3>\n
<\/span><\/b>Welcome remarks by Anita Berrizbeitia, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture
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Keynote Address by Michael Twitty
Beyond \u2018Slave Food\u2019: Re-Organizing the Perceptions and Potential of African American Foodways<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
Introduction by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto<\/span><\/p>\n
Panel Discussion 1, moderated by\u00a0Jarvis McInnis<\/span><\/span>
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<\/em>Anne Bouie<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/em>James French and Matthew Reeves<\/span><\/p>\n
Lunch Break<\/span><\/p>\n
Panel Discussion 2, moderated by\u00a0Matthew\u00a0<\/span>Mulcahy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
<\/em>Pauline Martha Kulstad-Gonz\u00e1lez<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span>Nicholas Paskert<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span>Break\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Panel Discussion 3, moderated by\u00a0Jennifer Anderson<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span>Elleza Kelley<\/p>\n
<\/span>Max Grivno<\/span><\/p>\n
Panel Discussion 4, moderated by\u00a0Andrea\u00a0<\/span>Mosterman<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span>Everett Fly<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span>Melissa Blair<\/span><\/p>\n
Lunch Break\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Panel Discussion 5, moderated by\u00a0Sara\u00a0<\/span>Zewde<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span>Justin Dunnavant<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/em>Daniel Sayers<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/em>Diane Jones Allen<\/span><\/p>\n
Closing Remarks by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto<\/span><\/p>\nConference Chair<\/h3>\n
Keynote Speaker<\/h3>\n