The Susman Conference Committee invites you to attend the 48th Annual Susman Graduate Conference! The conference will be held on Friday, March 27, in Van Dyck Hall. If you plan to attend, please fill out this brief registration form by March 7 so we can get an accurate headcount for catering.
This year's theme is "Bearing Witness, Challenging Myth: Imperial Pasts and Fascist Presents." The conference aims to grapple with the following questions: What can scholars do in troubled times? How can they bring their expertise, training, and analytical tools to bear in confrontation with authoritarianism and in defense of human rights? What have scholars done in past times of fascism or revolution? What does it mean to bear witness, and what is its value? And where, in all of this, does the historian’s representation, indeed their construction of themself, factor in?
The conference will conclude with a keynote lecture delivered by Dr. Joseph Kaplan (Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2024), Visiting Professor of African American History, Berea College. Dr. Kaplan’s research focuses on the New York Police Department’s intelligence unit and its repression of the Black Left within the city in the 1960s.
Please click here for the full schedule for the conference.