SOHP Spring 2025 Symposium

SOHP Spring Symposium – Spring 2025

Wednesday, April 23

Location: Love House (CSAS)
Time: 6:00–8:00 PM

Featuring:
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall – Emeritus Professor, UNC & Founder of SOHP
Jonathan Tarleton – Writer, Urban Planner & Oral Historian
Book Talk & Conversation


Thursday, April 24

Registration is required for this event.

Location: FedEx Global Center, Nelson Mandela Room
Time: 2:30–8:00 PM

Focus:
NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Oral History Project
A collaborative initiative between LDF and SOHP

Featuring a keynote conversation
Jania Nelson – NAACP LDF president and Director-Counsel
Ted Shaw – UNC Civil Rights Center Director
facilitated by UNC Hussman School of Journalism Professor Meredith Clark

  • Sign-in: 2:00–3:00 PM
  • Panel 1: 2:30–3:15 PM
  • Panel 2: 3:45–4:45 PM
  • Refreshment Break
  • Keynote: 5:00–6:00 PM
  • Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Ted Shaw – 6:00–6:15 PM
  • Reception: 6:15–7:30 PM

Friday, April 25

Location: Student Union 2420
Time: 10:30 AM–2:30 PM

Morning Focus

SOHP student intern presentations
Focus on the collaboration between SOHP and the Union of Southern Service Workers

  • Panel 1: 10:30–11:30 AM
  • Light refreshments
  • Panel 2: 12:00–1:00 PM

Afternoon Focus

Book Talk and Conversation: 1:30–2:30 PM

Featuring:
Kelley Navies – Oral historian, writer, educator, & cultural heritage professional
Chris Aluka Berry – Photographer and collaborator