Miami and Slavery Student Symposium
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151 S. Campus Ave., Oxford, OH 45056
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFs3kL6tnomOHUqa2PlhGdjPH8V2kaPyPOBuLM6CiSGAoGgw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=117732463973776060058Join us on Saturday, May 9 at 10:00 am for an interdisciplinary student-led symposium in King Library highlighting preliminary investigations into Miami's connections to American slavery and freedom. The "Miami and Slavery Student Symposium" will feature: graduate student panels, a faculty/staff roundtable discussion, virtual keynote address, refreshments, and a student poster presentation. It will be held in room KNG 320 from 10:00 am -- 2:00 pm.
The "Miami and Slavery Student Symposium" caps off the yearlong 2026 Humanities Lab. In collaboration with the Walter Havighurst Special Collections, students returned to Miami's archives to explore the University’s founding history, bringing into view the longer, overlooked history of African American presence, contributions, and experiences at Miami and in Oxford. From these investigations, they created campus tours, digital exhibits and collections, and individual research projects to share with the broader community.
“Miami and Slavery” engages with scholarship from universities in Ohio, across the United States, and abroad committed to studying their institutional histories of slavery. How might a similar project at Miami provide an opportunity to confront its history and forge a path toward truth-telling, moral accountability, and reconciliation, embodying the true spirit of Miami’s Code of Love and Honor? “Miami and Slavery” offers a framework for answering these fundamental questions and understanding the generations of Black individuals and families connected to Miami University.
Keynote by Dr. Anna-Lisa Cox (Harvard University fellow). Refreshments provided.
Co-sponsors: Humanities Center, Menard Family Center for Democracy, Honors College, Walter Havighurst Special Collections & University Archives, Department of History, Bethel A.M.E. Church, The Western Program for Individualized Studies
Keynote by Dr. Anna-Lisa Cox (Harvard University fellow). Refreshments provided.
Co-sponsors: Humanities Center, Menard Family Center for Democracy, Honors College, Walter Havighurst Special Collections & University Archives, Department of History, Bethel A.M.E. Church, The Western Program for Individualized Studies
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