10:30 a.m. | Saving Sandy Island
Presenters: Saving Sandy Island (2006) is a documentary about the struggle to save an exceptional South Carolina island and its Gullah community from development. Home to endangered species and rare long leaf
2:30 p.m. | Black Freedom Struggles and the Gullah Geechee Corridor: A Place of Settlement
Presenters: Latif A. Tarik My discussion will focus on the recent publication (Kendall Hunt, 2021) Black Freedom Struggles: Africana Reader which is a testament to Black excellence throughout the Africana world. The focus
2:30 p.m. | Resilient and Strong: Gullah Strategies of Reconciliation, Repair, and Healing
Presenters: Charen Glasgow This presentation will also discuss methodologies that open up creative spaces for catharsis, reconciliation, healing, and transnational solidarity towards informing transitional justice policies, and community development programs
1:45 p.m. | North Carolina Gullah Geechee Greenway – Blueway Heritage Trail Project
Presenters: Brayton Willis Stretching nearly 500 miles along the coast of Florida to North Carolina, the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor footprint was established in 2006 by Congress as a
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1:15 p.m. | Plantersville Cultural Collaborative
Presenters: Ray Funnye ; Craig M. Sasser Funded by the Broadening Narratives initiative from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The Plantersville Cultural Collective is the second phase of work
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12:45 p.m. | Gullah Geechee Seafood Trail
Presenters: Marilyn Hemingway The Gullah Geechee Chamber of Commerce, alongside the WeGoja Foundation, S.C. Sea Grant Consortium, Gullah/Geechee Nation, and Coastal Carolina University are working on the development of a
12:30 p.m. | Who can get to the water: Investigating environmental justice issues around public and private coastal infrastructure in South Carolina
Presenters: Jeffrey Beauvais In this presentation, we present a study on whether public and private WAI in South Carolina, USA is equitably distributed with respect to race and income. Using
11:45 a.m. | Split Down to Timbers: How the Discovery of Shipwrecks from Black History Impacts Local Life, Memory, and Archaeology
Presenters: Khamal Patterson Both the Planter and the Clotilda are historically significant sites, either eligible or listed on the National Register. Both provide robust examples for a lively discussion of
11:30 a.m. | Genetic Ancestry and Analysis from Hagley Plantation
Presenters: Kalina Kassadjikova I present here preliminary genetic data obtained from a subset of the individuals unearthed from St. Mary’s Chapel cemetery on the former Hagley Plantation, near Georgetown, SC.
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11 a.m. | Racialized Tabletalks: Foodways, Materiality and Inscribed Discources
Presenters: Scott Alves Barton Cookware transforms raw foodstuffs into cooked dishes, signaling the transformation of nature, clay or iron, to culture as a vessel or tool. As such these vessels can
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