All events are in the Magnolia Room at the Inn at Ellis Square unless noted otherwise.
Sunday
3:00-5:00 PM Registration
6:00 PM Welcome Reception hosted by the University of Connecticut
7:00 PM Performance Demonstration: Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
Monday
Landmark Site: African American Tour of Savannah and First African Baptist Church
Theme: Sounds and Traditions: The Sacred World of Black Slaves
Guiding Question: How is religion reflected in music, art, storytelling and dance?
Reading: “They shun the scrutiny of white men”: Reports on Religion from the
Georgia Lowcountry and West Africa, 1834-1850, Erskine Clarke
8:00 AM Gullah Music in a Cultural/Historical Context, Dr. Robert Stephens
9:00 AM View “The Language You Cry In”
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM The West African Connection, Dr. Cynthia Schmidt
11:45 AM Lunch
1:00 PM Conflicting Theologies, Dr. Erskine Clarke
2:45 PM Break
3:00 PM African American Tour of Savannah
5:00 PM Tour: First African Baptist Church
6:00 PM Dinner, on your own
Tuesday
Landmark Site: The Penn Center, St. Helena Island, SC
Theme: Sounds in Place and Time: The Plantation and the Praise House
Guiding Question: How do black-white interactions affect cultural creations and
productions during the antebellum and post-bellum periods?
Reading: ” A Sense of Self and Place: Unmasking My Gullah Cultural
Heritage”, Emory Campbell
7:15 AM Depart for Penn Center
8:30 AM Tour: York W. Bailey Museum and Penn Center grounds
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM A Sense of Self and Place, Dr. Emory Campbell
12:00 PM Gullah Lunch ($14.00 pre-paid from stipends)
1:00 PM Down by the Riverside and Other Spirituals, Ron Daise
3:15 PM Bus Departs for Savannah
5:00 PM Dinner, on you own
6:30 PM Group work on projects
Wednesday
Landmark Site: Georgia Historical Society
Theme: Images and Iconography
Guiding Question: How were the Gullah, and by extension, African-Americans
represented in images and iconography? By whom and in what?
Reading: TBD
8:00 AM Ring Plays, Play Parties and Clapping Games, Mary Ellen Junda
9:00 AM West African Traditions and Transformations, Leroy Campbell
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM Discussion
11:00 AM Primary Sources, Dr. Robert Stephens
12:00 PM Lunch, on your own
1:00-5:00 PM Georgia Historical Society ( 2 hrs. each group)
5:00 PM Dinner, on you own
6:30-8:00 PM Performance Demonstration, Georgia Sea Island Singers
Thursday
Landmark Site: Sapelo Island, GA
Theme: Stories and Artifacts
Guiding Question: What is the nature of African influence and of American influence
in the Gullah tradition?
Reading: “Summoning the Ancestors: The Flying Africans’ Story and Its
Enduring Legacy” Timothy Powell
6:45 AM Departure
8:30 AM Ferry to Sapelo Island
9:00-2:30 PM Sapelo Island- History, Culture and me, Cornelia Bailey
Tour of Island
2:30 PM Ferry to mainland
3:00 PM Leave for Savannah
4:30 PM Early Dinner, on your own
6:30 PM Group work on projects
Friday
Landmark Site: Inn at Ellis Square
Theme: Cultural Memories in History: Recollections
Guiding Question: How can ethnographic research and contextual inquiry be used to
describe people, places, language, and creative and expressive
events?
8:00 AM Group work on projects
9:30 AM Al Williams, State Representative
10:00 AM Our Family History, Mary and Wilson Moran
12:00 PM Lunch, on your own
1:00 PM Group Presentations
3:30 PM Summary and Future Endeavors
4:30 PM Workshop concludes
Schedule and readings subject to change until June, 2013.
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