8:15 – 8:30am

Welcome and Opening Remarks (SCE Auditorium)

8:40 – 10:00am

Session #1

Housing at the Margins #1 (SCE Auditorium)

Permanence or Profit? Short-Term Rentals in Atlanta’s Margins

Daniel Krasner (data.urbanist)

Homeownership Dreams, Rent-to-Own Realities: Sales trajectories and spatial concentrations of rent-to-own housing in Atlanta

Ryan Pardue (Georgia State University)

Locating Landlords: Mapping Intra-Urban Absenteeism in Atlanta’s Peoplestown Community

Benen Chancey (University of Georgia / Georgia State University)

Pedagogy and Place: Narratives of Identity, Activism, and Institutional Memory (SCE 203)

The Significance of Place in the History of Morehouse College

Regine Jackson (Morehouse College)

Keith Tillett II (Morehouse College)

William C. Price (Morehouse College)

The Radical Miss Barker: Crossing Lines With an Activist Educator

JoAnn Wood (Georgia State University)

Building “Against the Odds”: Bricolage, Narrative, and Institutional Identity at GSU

Ajay Shah (Emory University)

Curriculum, Stories, and Place: Narrative Inquiry into Schools and Gentrification

Robert Helfenbein (Mercer University)

Exploring the Margins in Atlanta’s Archives (SCE 216)

Antebellum Atlanta

Mason Reid (Independent Researcher)

Ann Hill Bond (Fulton County Remembrance Coalition)

Known Only to God: The Forgotten Stories of Atlanta’s Potter’s Fields and Indigent Dead

Cynthia Jennings (Independent Scholar)

Elizabeth Clappin (Independent Scholar)

Exploring the Stella Zine Riot Grrrl Collection

Hampton Stall (University of Georgia)

Panel

Writing Our Own History: Scholarly and Journalistic Initiatives at Atlanta’s Historic Penitentiary (SCE 217)

Organizer: Page Dukes (Georgia State University)

Panelists:

Page Dukes (Georgia State University)

Tiffany Parsons (University of West Georgia)

Christopher Gleason (Common Good Atlanta / Georgia State University)

Brother Akhu (Atlantian Revival)

Workshop

Rewriting the Narrative: Counterstorytelling for Equitable Policy Change in Atlanta (SCE 218)

Organizer: Khadijah Ameen (BLKHLTH)

Panelists:

Khadijah Ameen (BLKHLTH)

Matthew McCurdy (BLKHLTH)

Mercilla Ryan-Harris (BLKHLTH)

Paulah Wheeler (BLKHLTH)

10:10 – 11:30am

Session #2

Housing at the Margins #2 (SCE Auditorium)

Attacking Atlanta’s Slums. . . a very local story

LeeAnn Lands (Kennesaw State University)

Infill and Beyond: Understanding the Location of New Common-Interest Developments in Fulton County, Georgia

Rory Renzy (Georgia State University)

Excluded from Resources: Hotel-Based Homelessness and Intergenerational Housing Instability

Larry Mason Jr. (Georgia State University)

April M. Ballard (Georgia State University)

Shannon R. Self-Brown (Georgia State University)

The Resurgence of Co-Living: a Neoliberal Response to Atlanta’s Affordable Housing Crisis

Madelief Tilder (Georgia State University)

Mapping the Margins (SCE 203)

GeoAI Pipeline for Feature Extraction from Historical Urban Maps: An Atlanta Case Study

Shoibolina Kaushik (Emory University)

Safia Read (Emory University)

Alexander M. Cors (Emory University)

A Machine Learning Approach to Digital Humanities and Geospatial Research Within the City of Atlanta Before 1940

Matthew Reeves (Atlanta Regional Commission)

Bill Huang (Atlanta Regional Commission)

Perceptions of Patterns of Pollution: Rethinking Environmental Justice Hotspots in Atlanta

Aaron Pacheco (Georgia State University)

Race and Value in Space and Time: A Critical Narrative Cartography of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation’s Area Descriptions

Scott Markley (Land Use Atlas, Inc.)

Anne Bonds (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Stadiums, Suburbs, and Prison Yards: How Baseball Explains the Spatial Inequalities of Race and Class in Atlanta (SCE 216)

Organizer: Clif Stratton (Washington State University)

Enclosing land for baseball: Commodification, capitalization, and the Atlanta Braves

Andy Walter (University of West Georgia)

Prison Yard Nines: Integrated Baseball and Progressive Reformations at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary

Clif Stratton (Washington State University)

A Tale of Two Stadiums: Cobb County and Professional Sports, 1957-2017

Andrew Bramlett (Kennesaw State University)

Race, Space, and Power in Carceral Atlanta (SCE 217)

Dens, Dives, and Dance Halls: Black Social Dance and Carceral Politics in Atlanta’s Progressive-Era Newspapers

Julie B. Johnson (Spelman College)

Constructing the Carceral City: From the “long 1960s” to the neoliberal consensus in Atlanta

Kayla Edgett (University of Georgia)

Mapping a Movement: Exploring a Proposed Police Training Facility in Atlanta and its Opposition Movement through Online Maps

Camille Harris (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Clio Andris (Georgia Institute of Technology) 

“A Great Industry on the Chattahoochee”: Chattahoochee Brick Company, West Atlanta Waterways, and the Political Ecologies of Convict Leasing

Jay Atkins (University of Georgia)

A Century of Atlanta Music from the Margins (SCE 218)

Organizer: Jesse P. Karlsberg (Emory University)

Atlanta Sacred Music Publishing from the Margins to the Mainstream, 1850–1925

Jesse P. Karlsberg (Emory University)

Upstart Preachers and Recording Pioneers: The Emergence of Atlanta as the Sound Recording Capital of the South

DuJuan A. Morris (Spelman College / Clark Atlanta University)

Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Choir Signifyin’ at the Gone With the Wind Movie Premiere

Marva Griffin Carter (Georgia State University)

“If I Lose, Let Me Lose”: Georgia Folk at the Margins of the New Urban South

Benjamin DuPriest (Georgia State University)

11:40am – 12:40pm

Cliff Kuhn Memorial Keynote (SCE Auditorium)

‘Now is the Time of Monsters’: The Status of Black Atlanta 2026 and the Power of the Black Working Class

Augustus Wood (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign)

12:40 – 1:30pm

Lunch and Learn 

Lunch (SCE Lobby)

Workshop

OpenWorld Atlanta: Community-Sourced Knowledge Working Session (SCE 218)

Organizers: Bailey Betik (Emory University) & Alexander Cors (Emory University)

Poster Presentations (SCE Lobby)

Her Lens. Her Voice.

Jessica Brooks (Georgia State University)

“Ain’t No Help for Us”: Structural Exclusion, Unmet Health-Related Social Needs, and Community Survival Among Chronically Ill Black Women in Atlanta

Shanae Stover (Georgia State University)

Walkin’ On Eggshells in My Own Home: Lived Experiences of Black Single Mothers within the Housing Choice Voucher Program in the Atlanta Housing Authority

Treasure Evans (Georgia State University)

Spatial Inequality Revealed Through Population, Income and Rental Housing Trends in Atlanta, Georgia (2019 – 2023)

Niya Randall (Georgia State University)

Microplastics in Atlanta Waterways

Shumya Jannat (Georgia State University)

The Power Within the Margins

D’Anne Anthony (Georgia State University)

Open Streets: The current state of transforming temporary street closure programs across the United States and the post-pandemic effects

Tania Alanis (Georgia State University)

How to Elect Democratic Socialists in Georgia: The Role of Door-to-Door Canvassing

Fred Brooks (Georgia State University)

Working Side by Side for Georgians with Brain Injuries: Accomplishing Academic (Georgia State University) and Non-Profit (Shepherd Center and Side by Side) goals to improve community participation for brain injury survivors in Georgia

Zohana Afrin (Georgia State University)

Jun Yang (Georgia State University)

Melissa Treanor (Georgia State University)

Graham Moore (Georgia State University)

Madelief Tilder (Georgia State University)

Lauren Leeder (Georgia State University)

Jingyun Pi (Georgia State University)

Patricia Lawrence (Georgia State University)

Daniel Pasciuti (Georgia State University) 

Judy Wissing (Side by Side)

Bryan Schroeder (Side by Side) 

Raeda Anderson (Shepherd Center)

Graham Moore (Shepherd Center)

Pat Barrett (Shepherd Center)

“Thin Line Between Being Helpful and Information Being Used Against You”: Considerations and Opportunities for Environmental Sensing in Jails and Prisons

Alex Cabral (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Britney Johnson (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Grace Crim (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Josiah Hester (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Clio Andris (Georgia Institute of Technology)

1:30 – 2:50pm

Session #3

Placemaking at the Margins (SCE Auditorium)

Ghosts of Atlanta: Cultural Gentrification of the Black Mecca

Rhana Gittens Wheeler (Oglethorpe University)

The Anti-Power Broker: Atlanta Women and the Making of Noguchi’s Playscape

Jade Yang (Kennesaw State University)

The Blueprint of Black Place: An in-depth look at race, class and placemaking in Atlanta, Georgia as a Black Mecca

Jonathan Grant (University of North Florida)

To the Past, To the Future: Memory, Margin, and the Mecca

Danté Studamire (Pennsylvania State University)

Panel

Defending Atlanta’s Streams: A Grassroots History of Urban Sewer Reform (SCE 203)

Organizer: Therese Sabioni (Community Researcher)

Panelists:

Jacqueline Echols (South River Watershed Alliance)

Charles Seabrook (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, retired)

Darryl Haddock (West Atlanta Watershed Alliance)

Bill Eisenhauer (Metro Atlanta Urban Waters Institute)

Panel

Interpreting the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games: Archival Approaches from Three University Libraries (SCE 216)

Organizer: Alison Reynolds (Georgia Institute of Technology) 

Panelists:

Jody Thompson (Georgia Institute of Technology) 

Connor Lynch (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Kaylynn Washnock Stooksbury (University of Georgia)

Lisa Vallen (Georgia State University)

Panel

Revolutions at the Margins: Atlanta’s Cyclists Past and Present Confront Questions of Access and Relevance (SCE 217)

Organizer: Clif Stratton (Washington State University)

Panelists:

Clif Stratton (Washington State University)

Nedra Deadwyler (Nedra Deadwyler Consulting / Civil Bikes)

Atiba Mbiwan (Coach Atiba / BRAG (Bike Ride Across Georgia) Dream Team / Zeist Foundation)

Neill Davis (Sweet Auburn Works)

Panel

Voices from the Margins: Reclaiming Stone Mountain from the Lost Cause (SCE 218)

Organizer: Sally Stanhope (Georgia State University)

Redefining Stone Mountain from the Margins

Sally Stanhope (Georgia State University)

Site of Contention: Rhetoric of/and Stone Mountain, Georgia

Whitney Jordan Adams (Berry College)

Moving Past Myths: How IDEAS and a Bike Ride Can free Atlanta from the Lost Cause

Sherman Neal II (Sierra Club / Temple University)

3:00 – 4:20pm

Session #4

Economies at the Margins (SCE Auditorium)

(404) Job Not Found: What Workforce Training Can’t Fix for Black Atlantans in the Age of AI

Anuli Akanegbu (Data & Society) 

Hispanic Street Vending in Gwinnett County

David Schlifka (Georgia State University)

Moved and Made in the Logistical Fix of Clayton County

Lynesia Denson (Georgia State University)

Spatial Dynamics of High-Tech Start-ups in Atlanta: The Role of the Incubator

Yifei Chen (Georgia State University)

Paige Clayton (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Cathy Yang Liu (Georgia State University)

Environmental Interventions and Inequities (SCE 203)

Park-making as exclusionary place-making in Atlanta

Khadija Benn (Georgia State University)

Katherine Hankins (Georgia State University)

Variegated Urban Greening: The Diffusion of Green Interventions across Metropolitan Atlanta

Cagri Tuzcuoglu (Georgia State University)

Green spaces, gray areas: mapping state park accessibility at the margins of Atlanta and beyond.

Melissa Treanor (Georgia State University)

AI in the A: A preliminary analysis of data center development in Metro Atlanta

Eliana Morales (Georgia State University)

Ben Trost (Georgia State University)

Panel

Mega-events in Atlanta – From the Olympics to the World Cup, Who Benefits? (SCE 216)

Organizer: Michael Collins (PlayFairATL)

Panelists:

Jackie Hampton (Emory University)

Devin Franklin (Southern Center for Human Rights)

Matthew Nursey (Housing Justice League)

Chris Daniel (AFL-CIO)

Cristal Valdez (Poder Latinx)

Creating Community: Exploring Atlanta’s Historical Chinese Community (SCE 217)

Organizer: Keith Hollingsworth (Morehouse College)

From Sanborn Maps to Gaussian Splats: Remembering Downtown Atlanta’s Early Chinese Community through Historic Data Visualization and Spatial Storytelling

Jeremiah Long (Georgia State University)

Faith and Nation Across Borders: Christianity and Transnational Nationalism in the Atlanta’s Early Chinese Community

Shaofan Zhang (Georgia State University)

Translating Memory: Research on Chinese Gravestones in Greenwood Cemetery, Atlanta

Ruihua Shen (Morehouse College)

Myles Tucker (Morehouse College)

Santiago Soto (Morehouse College)

Miles Drabinsky (Morehouse College)

Williams Walk (Morehouse College)

Tracking the Tong

Keith Hollingsworth (Morehouse College)

Social and Health Inequalities (SCE 218)

Live Beyond Expectations: Centering the margins to create lifelong communities in the Atlanta region

Joy Dillard Appel (Atlanta Regional Commission)

Arin Yost (Atlanta Regional Commission)

Mapping Misinformation: Crisis Pregnancy Centers and Unequal Reproductive Healthcare Access Across Georgia

Lauren Leeder (Georgia State University)

“I’d drive to the ends of the earth for my child”: Transportation politics and the experience of navigating unequal landscapes in Atlanta

Emma Uppelschoten (Georgia Institute of Technology)

4:30 – 5:30pm

Keynote (SCE Auditorium)

There Is No Place For Us: Working, Homeless and Invisible in Atlanta

Brian Goldstone (Journalist and Author)

5:30 – 6:30pm

Reception (SCE Lobby)

Exhibition (SCE Lobby)

Visions of Cleveland Ave.: Roots, Ruins, and Resistance

Wan Smith (Georgia State University)