Schedule

President Laurie L. Patton
Daniel Silva, Director of the Twilight Project

Moderator: Jim Ralph, Dean of Faculty

William B. Hart, Professor Emeritus of History, “The Charismatic, Enigmatic Mr. Twilight: A Story of the Unreliability of Race in Nineteenth-Century America”
Mary Wood, Docent, Old Stone House Museum and Historic Village, “Mercy Ladd Twilight”
Bob Hunt, Associate Director of Operations, Old Stone House Museum and Historic Village

Moderator: Karl Lindholm, Dean Emeritus of Advising; Assistant Professor of American Studies; First-Year Seminar Faculty

Dr. Spencer Kuchle, Associate Director of Collections & Interpretations, Old Stone House Museum and Historic Village
David Schutz, Vermont State House Curator
François Clemmons, Twilight Artist Emeritus in Residence

Those Set Aside: The Stakes of Black Studies, History and Methods of Care

Introduction: Daniel Silva, Director of the Twilight Project

Marisa Fuentes, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University

Introduction: Daniel Silva, Director of the Twilight Project
Remarks: Vermont State Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale

Moderated by Tara Affolter, Faculty Director, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion; Associate Professor of Education Studies

Remarks

Mikaela Taylor, Middlebury Special Collections Public Services and Outreach Specialist; Assistant Director of the Twilight Project

Ellie Thompson ’22
Jordyn Johnson ‘23, Admissions Counselor 
Crystal Zhou ‘23.5
Mars Etgü ’26
Kaveh Abu Khaleel ’26

Honoring Frederick Douglass’s Visit to Middlebury in 1843

President Laurie L. Patton
William B. Hart, Professor Emeritus of History
Vermont State Senator Ruth Hardy
Laura V. Trieschmann, State Historic Preservation Officer
Khuram Hussain, Vice President of Equity and Inclusion and Associate Professor of Education Studies

Music by Matthew Taylor, Assistant Professor of Music and Damascus Kafumbe, Professor of Music; Edward C. Knox Professor of International Studies

 

Moderator: Chong-suk Han, Professor of Sociology

Elsa Mendoza, Assistant Professor of History
Viola Huang, Assistant Professor of Black Studies and German
Judy Dow, Executive Director of Gedakina

Moderator: William B. Hart, Professor Emeritus of History

EveNSteve, Experimental Short Film on Twilight: The Home of My Choice
Bill Tulp, Graphic Artist and Writer: The Life and Times of Alexander Twilight
Katie Runde, Artist of the Twilight Portrait at the Vermont State House
 

Matthew Taylor, Assistant Professor of Music
Damascus Kafumbe, Professor of Music; Edward C. Knox Professor of International Studies

Moderator: Mikaela Taylor, Middlebury Special Collections Public Services and Outreach Specialist; Assistant Director of the Twilight Project

Eva Garcelon-Hart, Archivist, Henry Sheldon Museum
Lydia Clemmons, Clemmons Family Farm
Khyree Davis, Assistant Professor of Black Studies
Rebekah Irwin, Director and Curator of Special Collections
Kaitlin Buerge, Archivist, Special Collections

 

Daniel Silva, Mikaela Taylor

Birthday Cake in Honor of Twilight’s Birthday, September 23, 1795, or Grab ‘n’ Go Lunch