Middlebury College MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE

Clifford Symposium 2023 | Twilight at 200: Race and the Academy | Dedication

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Historic Marker at Court Square

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

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Clifford Symposium 2023 | Twilight at 200: Race and the Academy | The Twilight Project: Student Research Presentations

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Axinn Center, Abernethy Room

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

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Clifford Symposium 2023 | Twilight at 200: Race and the Academy | The Legacy of Alexander Twilight

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Wilson Auditorium

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

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Clifford Symposium 2023 | Twilight at 200: Race and the Academy | Who Was Alexander Twilight?

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Wilson Auditorium

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

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