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Release date: Sept. 24, 2002 Emory Conference to Explore Lynching in America"Lynching and Racial Violence in America: Histories and Legacies," a conference examining painful chapters of violence in American history, will take place at Emory University Oct. 3 - 6. The three-day event is being held in conjunction with "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America," the first Southern exhibition of the critically lauded photography retrospective currently on display at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta. The conference will bring together more than 90 scholars and historians from around the world for an interdisciplinary study of lynching in the United States, and for a closer look at how that period in the country’s history influences racial relations today. "Without Sanctuary," a centerpiece of the conference, is co-presented by Emory and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site. The exhibit features rare photographs and postcards from the Allen-Littlefield collection that document the history of American lynchings from the 1880s to the 1960s. More than 100,000 people have viewed "Without Sanctuary" since it opened May 1, breaking attendance records at the King site and for previous runs of the exhibition. The display closes Dec. 31. For more information, go to: www.emory.edu/WithoutSanctuaryExhibit. Delivering the conference’s keynote address is historian David Levering Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr. University Professor at Rutgers University, at 8 p.m., Oct. 3, in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building auditorium. Lewis, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, received the awards for volumes of a biographical series he wrote on W.E.B. DuBois. A critique of "Without Sanctuary" will take place at 4 p.m., Oct. 4 at Ebenezer Baptist Church after a viewing of the exhibit. Among the respondents at that event will be Atlantan James Allen, co-owner of the Allen-Littlefield collection. Plenary addresses will be given by Emma Coleman Jordan, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage, the William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. To close the weekend, Bishop Margot Kässmann of the Lutheran Church of Hanover, Germany, will lead an interfaith service at 11 a.m. Oct. 6 in Cannon Chapel. Several conference events, including the keynote and plenary addresses and worship service, are free and open to the public. Registration is required for the panels. Fees are $60 per person and $15 for students with a valid ID. The conference panel discussions will take place at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, 1615 Clifton Road, and registration will be accepted throughout the weekend. For more information, call Jody Usher at 404-727-9331. To view the complete conference schedule, go to: www.emory.edu/WithoutSanctuaryExhibit/conference.html. To read more on the conference, visit Emory Report . More than two-dozen panel discussions are scheduled during the weekend. Most deal with issues surrounding lynching, but many address the wider issue of race. Panels include: Friday, Oct. 4 1:30 – 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5 10:15 a.m. – Noon 1:30 – 3 p.m. 3:15 – 5 p.m. ###
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