World Heritage Initiative
Department of History
Atlanta, Georgia
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U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites Symposium
Georgia State University College of Law
April 16-18, 2020
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Update on COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and the Symposium
Georgia State University is closely monitoring developments in the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) with a focus on its potential impact on the academic community and its campus. If the university closes and it becomes necessary to cancel the April 16-18, 2020
U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites Symposium,
we will notify you of such a decision and provide follow-up details regarding efforts to reschedule the event. For more information on COVID-19, please refer to
GSU's coronavirus website here.
Should we need to cancel or postpone the event, we advise you to check with your hotel regarding its Coronavirus cancellation policy. The two hotels that offered discounted rooms for the Symposium have the following policies:
- Marriott Residence Inn - no penalty if cancellation is related to virus
- Candler Hotel - no penalty if cancellation is 72 hours prior
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Marriott Discount Deadline is March 16
It's time to make your plans to attend the U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites Symposium. This three-day event includes renowned speakers, informative panel discussions, helpful workshops, and plenty of valuable networking. And a tour of local Civil Rights Movement sites will kick things off.
Please use the links below to register for the free Symposium
and reserve a hotel room before March 16 for a discounted rate.
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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT
Linda Norris and the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
Ways of interpreting civil rights movement sites for restorative justice will provide a central theme of the
U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites Symposium
by featuring the work of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. Founded twenty years ago to help heritage sites and museums of the past engage their troubled legacies and the pressing problems of today, the Coalition now boasts 300 nongovernmental institutional memberships in 65 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, where it regularly hosts training workshops, arranges international collaborative efforts, and advocacy projects. On Friday afternoon April 17, the Coalition’s Global Networks Program Director,
Linda Norris
(pictured below)
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will lead a panel discussion with several affiliated civil rights movement sites that previously have worked with the Coalition.
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A leading authority in museum studies, Norris works to transform interpretative spaces to create narratives that engage communities and generate deeper understandings of the past. She earned her master’s degree from the Cooperstown Graduate Program in History Museum Studies, held a Fulbright to Ukraine in 2009-10, and is the co-author of
Creativity in Museum Practice
, a practical guide that helps interpreters of historical content find ways to engage in conversation and promote action among the public. Norris blogs for “The Uncatalogued Museum.” A frequent traveler to facilitate sessions with Coalition affiliates, Norris heads up efforts to re-interpret the Maison des Esclaves on Goree Island in Senegal, the first World Heritage Site in Africa; document through a digital map human rights abuses in the Middle East; reintegrate Native American women into the New York landscape; and run workshops in Estonia, Turkey, Sierra Leone, Japan, and elsewhere.
Click here to learn more about Linda Norris.
The Coalition brings experts in museology, human rights, and transitional justice together behind its operating principles of interpreting history through the context of the historical site in order to engage visitors with programs that stimulate dialogue around social concerns. The historical issues raised by a site are used to generate positive action through increased public involvement that builds to promote justice and human rights. Thus, a Nazi Concentration Camp also interprets modern xenophobia, a Russian Gulag museum also explores repression of free speech, and a site of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade also engages issues of modern slavery. The Coalition has sponsored truth and reconciliation efforts in Northern Ireland to bring Catholics and Protestants together to promote trust, and the exchange of stories by mothers on different sides of Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war to rebuild communities. By addressing memories of the past, the Coalition promotes a better future.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
THURSDAY, APRIL 16
2:00-5:00 pm Tour of Atlanta Civil Rights Sites
6:00-7:00 pm
Preserving America’s Culture of Civil Rights Activism
7:00-8:00 pm Opening Reception
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
10:45 am-12:00 pm
Protection for Sites and Their Contexts
2:00-3:30 pm
U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites as Sites of Conscience
3:30-5:00 pm
Partnering with History to Improve the World
5:00-6:30 pm Reception
SATURDAY, APRIL 18
9:00-10:30 am
Current Civil Rights Sites Initiatives
10:45-11:45 am
A Congressional Strategy for Funding the U.S. Commitment to
World Heritage
11:45 am Closing Remarks
12:00 pm Adjourn
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Join us in April!
U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites Second Symposium
Atlanta, April 16-18, 2020
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There is no charge for the Symposium.
Please provide your name, affiliation, and the day(s) you plan to attend. And let us know if you'd like to do the Thursday afternoon bus tour -
seats are limited.
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Located a block from the Symposium.
Deadline for the $142 group rate is March 16, 2020.
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SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT:
New South Associates
New South Associates
is a women-owned small business providing cultural resource management services. It was incorporated in Georgia in 1988. Our firm is nationally recognized for its ability to integrate studies of sites and structures of the past with planning and construction for the future.
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This project is funded in part by:
The African American Civil Rights program of the Historic Preservation Fund,
National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not constitute endorsement or necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior or U.S. Government; and
Grants from the African American Fund and the Southern Intervention Fund of the
National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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