Symposium on Universities, Cities, and Communities

Welcome remarks by Chancellor Daniel Diermeier

• Joe Trotter, Jr. Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice, Director of the Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy, Carnegie Mellon University

• Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Director of the Center for Urban Studies, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

• Joe Trotter, Jr. Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice, Director of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy, Carnegie Mellon University
• Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Director of the Center for Urban Studies, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
• Brandon Byrd Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
• Julie Gamble Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Vanderbilt University

• Claire Sisco King Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University
• Angela Sutton Research Assistant Professor of Communication of Science and Technology, Vanderbilt University

  RSVP required: angela.c.sutton@vanderbilt.edu

  Pick-up location provided upon RSVP.

  This is an optional event, and spaces are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.

  We will explore various neighborhoods in Nashville to examine the city's history and the impacts of its exponential growth, including gentrification. The trolley will stop at the UNESCO Site of Memory, Fort Negley, for a walking tour led by Angela Sutton, Director of the Fort Negley Descendants Project, and Jeneene Blackman, a descendant of the space and the CEO of the African American Cultural Alliance. They will discuss upcoming changes in the landscape and interpretation of the site and how it reflects and affects urban memory. The tour will also stop at, and critically consider, murals designed to attract tourists and promote social media engagement, as well as murals by Black artists that address racial inequality in Nashville. Claire Sisco King will lead discussions about the racialized and gendered implications of Nashville's contemporary tourist culture and, in particular, its status as the "bachelorette capital of the world."

• Dana Cuff, Professor, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and Founding Director, cityLAB, University of California, Los Angeles

• Dana Cuff, Professor, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and Founding Director, cityLAB, University of California, Los Angeles
• Kimberley McKinson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
• Tasha Rijke Epstein, Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
• Kevin Murphy, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Vanderbilt University
• Matthew Worsnick, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture

• Hosted by the Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows in Urban Humanities

Boxed lunches available for all participants

• Letizia Modena Associate Professor of Italian, Vanderbilt University (moderator)
• Peter Chesney, Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, History of Art and Architecture, Vanderbilt University
• Lee Ann Custer, Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, History of Art and Architecture, Vanderbilt University
• Jonathan Karp, Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, American Studies, Vanderbilt University
• Ana Luiza Morais Soares, Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
• Anna Tybinko, Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Spanish & Portuguese, Vanderbilt University