8:15 – 8:30 a.m.

Opening Remarks  (Bank of America Auditorium)

Keith Hollingsworth – Morehouse College and Organizing Committee Chair

Welcome to Morehouse College

Regine Jackson – Dean, Division of Humanities, Social Sciences, Media and Arts, Morehouse College

8:40 – 9:55 a.m.

Session 1

Panel

Who Lived Here? Where Did They Go? (BOA Auditorium)

Georgianne Thomas – Clark Atlanta University (Moderator)

Rev. Alvelyn Sanders Swafford

Rev. Jerome Banks

Rev. Greg Warren

Panel

Exploring Atlanta’s Data Center Divide (SM Conf Room A)

William Bryan – Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (Moderator)

Celine Benoit – Atlanta Regional Commission

Property and Housing (SM Conf Room B)

Moderator: Elora Lee Raymond – Georgia Institute of Technology

Real Property Owners of Atlanta: Challenges for Understanding Contemporary Property Ownership

Ryan Pardue – Georgia State University

Taylor Shelton – Georgia State University

“No Investment Pays Off Like Slum Property”: The Business of Low-Income Rental Housing in Late 20th Century Atlanta

LeeAnn Lands – Kennesaw State University

Speculative Homeownership and Gentrification: Mapping Investor, Second-Home, and Principal Residence Purchases in Atlanta

Daniel Krasner – Georgia State University

Housing Instability in the South: Coalitions for Eviction Prevention in Clayton County, Georgia

Tabitha Ingle – Georgia State University

Daniel S. Pasciuti – Georgia State University

Community and Public Health (SM Conf Room F)

Moderator: Patricia Lawrence – Georgia State University

The map back to home: Where do Atlantans live after catastrophic, rehabilitation care?

Pat Barrett – Shepherd Center

Raeda K. Anderson – Shepherd Center

Daniel S. Pasciuti – Georgia State University

Madelief L. Tilder – Georgia State University

Patricia R. Lawrence – Georgia State University

Chloe M. Sellers – Shepherd Center

Melissa A. Treanor – Georgia State University

Lauren B. Leeder – Georgia State University

Project Healthy Grandparents: Improving the Health and Well-being of Atlanta’s Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Patricia Lawrence – Georgia State University

Examining Donor Preferences for Aiding Individuals Experiencing Homelessness

Jonathan Oxley – Georgia State University

Husnain Fateh Ahmad – University of the South

Leveraging Responsible AI to Address Community Challenges in Atlanta: A Design Thinking Approach to Community-Engaged Learning

Yeqing Kong – Georgia Institute of Technology

Isabela Cardona – Georgia Institute of Technology

Panel

Teaching Atlanta: Connecting Classrooms to the Stories of our City  (SM Conf Room E)

Brennan Collins – Georgia State University (Moderator)

Marni Davis – Georgia State University

Alexander Cors – Emory University

Bailey Betik – Emory University

10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Keynote (BOA Auditorium)

“This Story Will Change Your Life”

Hannah Palmer – Writer

Introduction: Marni Davis – Georgia State University

11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Session 2

Workshop

Policing Atlanta: Past, present, future (BOA Auditorium)

Kayla Edgett – University of Georgia (Moderator)

Rachel Arney – Georgia State University

Richard Milligan – Georgia State University

Black Culture in Atlanta (SM Conf Room A)

Moderator: Joycelyn Wilson – Georgia Institute of Technology

Get Some! Historicizing and Marketing Yeek Culture

Kevin Holt – Stony Brook University

Ghosts of Atlanta: Cultural Gentrification of the Black Mecca

Rhana Gittens Wheeler – Oglethorpe University

Documenting Atlanta Metropolitan State College: A Fifty-Year Photographic Retrospective

Kenja McCray – Clayton State University

Environmental Studies and Justice (SM Conf Room B)

Moderator: Rebecca Watts Hull – Georgia Institute of Technology

Systematic Investigation of Industrial Stormwater Permits in the South River Watershed

Hamida Akter – Georgia State University

Megan Curry – Georgia State University

Jessica Sterling – Chattahoochee Riverkeeper

Richard Milligan – Georgia State University

Hotlanta: Identifying Environmental Justice Hotspots in Atlanta

Aaron Pacheco – Georgia State University

Presence of Snails and Slugs in Atlanta Community Gardens

Kamelly Alejos – Georgia State University

Christy C. Visaggi – Georgia State University

Jann E. Vendetti – Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Historical Black Women in Atlanta (SM Conf Room F)

Moderator: Keith Hollingsworth – Morehouse College

Annie McPheeters, Civil Rights, and African-American Librarianship in Atlanta

Vicki Crawford – Morehouse College

Jewel Woodard Simon: An Inclusive History of the Atlanta art world

Mark Taylor – Berry College

In Their Own Way: Lugenia Burns Hope, Adrienne McNeil Herndon, and Addie Waite Hunton – The Radical Activism of Three African American Women in Atlanta, 1898 – 1910

Clarissa Myrick-Harris White – Morehouse College

Uncovering a Hidden Story: Mattie Adams and Black Entrepreneurship in Atlanta

Keith Hollingsworth – Morehouse College

Khalil Harper-Arias – Morehouse College

Panel

Walls of Atlanta: Graffiti, Public Art, and the Visual Politics of Urban Change (SM Conf Room E)

Julia Tulke – Emory University (Moderator)

Randy Gue – Emory University

Antar Fierce – Artist and Historian

Tatiana Bell – Artist

Miranda Kyle – Emory University

12:30 – 1:45 p.m.

Lunch and Learn

Lunch: (SM Atrium and Conf Rooms C&D)

Discussion

“There is No Place for Us” – Atlanta And Housing

(SM Conf Room F)

Brian Goldstone – Journalist

Elora Lee Raymond – Georgia Institute of Technology

Poster Presentations (SM Atrium)

“Hot Nights in Georgia”: Little Five Points, Community Activism, and the Making of a Scene

Sinclair Lewis – University of Georgia

Gauging Gages

Hazel Pepperman – Georgia State University

Is It Not in Your Backyard? Mapping Concentrations of Illegal Tree Removal in Atlanta

Sophuth Phon – Georgia State University

Industrial Parks in Jurassic Park: The Logics of Logistics in Clayton County

Lynesia Denson – Georgia State University

Prison Education in Greater Atlanta

Kipton Jensen – Morehouse College

1:45 – 3:00 p.m.

Session 3

Panel

AI and the Future of Work in Greater Atlanta and Beyond (BOA Auditorium

Allan Hyde – Georgia Institute of Technology (Moderator)

Brandeis Marshall – DataedX Group

Tyler Cook – Georgia Institute of Technology

Sean Mulvanity – Georgia Institute of Technology

Steven Ferguson – Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta Culture (SM Conf Room A)

Moderator: Ruihua Shen – Morehouse College

Jasmine Flowers and Hip-Hop Warriors: How Chinese American Dance Choreographers Assert Belonging and Navigate the Black/White Binary in Contemporary Atlanta

Kristin Buhrow – Emory University

We Shall Overcome: Atlanta Chinese and Their Shared Memories of the 1989 Beijing Pro-Democracy Movement

Shaofan Zhang – Georgia State University

History and Place (SM Conf Room B)

Moderator: Katherine Hankins – Georgia State University

Across the Green Divide: Race, Labor, and Conservation in Atlanta’s Botanical Gardens

Samantha Lieberman – Georgia Institute of Technology

From Bottling Plant to Buried Trash: the archaeology of Atlanta’s soft drink industry

Emmett Cantkier – Georgia State University

Race and cultures of property in 20th century suburban Atlanta

Kathryn Wilson – Georgia State University

Wrong Side of the Tracks: The Old Stone Church as a Narrative Example of the Landmark Designation Process

Elizabeth Clappin – History Preservation Studio

History: Race and Gender (SM Conf Room F)

Moderator: Clarissa Myrick-Harris White – Morehouse College

A Massacre Forgotten: What We Can Learn from Atlanta’s 1902 “Race Riot”

Marni Davis – Georgia State University

“One for the money, yes, sir, two for the show”: The ‘Elevators’ of Caste in Atlanta

Anuli Akanegbu – Data & Society

Race & Sexuality Politics in Atlanta’s Postbellum-to-Progressive Era Prostitution Trade

Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh – Georgia State University

Black Women and the Rise of the Black Mecca

Eshe Sherley – Wake Forest University

Panel

Research in Practice: Using Public Data and Community Engagement to Promote Equitable Thriving throughout the Atlanta Region (SM Conf Room F)

Joy Dillard Appel – Atlanta Regional Commission (Moderator)

Arin Yost – Atlanta Regional Commission

Roshani Thakore – Atlanta Regional Commission

Tejas Kotak – Atlanta Regional Commission

John Philipsborn – Atlanta Regional Commission

3:05  – 4:20 p.m.

Session 4

Panel

Under One Roof: Strengthening Community with Affordable Housing and Food Security (BOA Auditorium)

Alicia Riviera – Feeding Georgia Families (Moderator)

Fred Brooks – Georgia State University

Peggy Clark – Community Advocate

Bodua Gordon – Savannah Community Land Trust

Sherri Elaine McCoy – Blessing Bags of Warmth

Atlanta’s Urban and Economic Development (SM Conf Room A)

Moderator: TBD

Development Projects in Atlanta through a Natural Language Processing Lens

Will Bone – Emory University

The Use of Economic Development Overlay Districts in Response to Industrial Land Loss in Atlanta’s Beltline

Raymond White Sr. – White Strategic Services

Revolt! How People, Protests, and Policy Shaped Atlanta’s Highway System

James Newberry – Kennesaw State University

Atlanta’s Influence on Minority Business Enterprise Programs: The Role of Joint Ventures and Disparity Studies

John Eagan – Morehouse College

Atlanta’s Politics (SM Conf Room B)

Moderator: Michael Owens – Emory University

Governing Atlanta After Dark

Jean-Paul Addie – Georgia State University

Boardrooms, squad rooms, and city hall: Intra-regime conflict in Atlanta

Kayla Edgett – University of Georgia

Invocation of the “Atlanta Way” During Times of Unrest: Analyzing the Language Used to Pacify Local Protesters

Matthew Harmon – Georgia State University

By Chance or Design? Atlanta’s Changing Worker Profile

Jennifer Simon – Georgia State University

Teaching Atlanta and the Archives (SM Conf Room F)

Moderator: Thomas Jackson – AUC Woodruff Library

Student stories about Atlanta’s multilingual landscape

Hiram Maxim – Emory University

Generating Queer Histories: Prompting Critical Reflections on Generative AI in the Archives

Alexandra (Allie) Teixeira Riggs – Georgia Institute of Technology

OpenWorld Atlanta: A Digital Hub for Scholarship

Bailey Betik – Emory University

Alexander Cors – Emory University

Telling an Untold Story: Collection Development in an Academic Archive

Sarah Tanner – AUC Woodruff Library

Panel

The Unseen Stories of Housing, Health, and Energy in Atlanta (SM Conf Room E)

Laura Diaz-Villaquiran – Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (Moderator)

Abe Kruger – SK Collaborative

Crystal Reed – Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation

Elizabeth Willis – Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance

Anne Mellinger-Birdsong – Mothers and Others for Clean Air

4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Cliff Kuhn Memorial Lecture (BOA Auditorium)

“Atlanta is Ours and Fairly Won”

Jeffrey Ogbar – University of Connecticut

Introduction: Vicki Crawford – Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr.  Collection

5:45 – 7:00 p.m.

Evening Reception and Cocktail Hour

(African American Hall of Fame in King Chapel)