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