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SUMMARY:Conference on Texas: Origin Stories
DESCRIPTION:MARCH 23 – 24\, 2023  |  Dive into Texas’ wild and vivid lands\, especially its people\, their resilience and how they adapted to or impacted the ever-developing Texas. \nSubjects at the two-day 2023 Conference on Texas will include multiple breakout sessions featuring personal stories from the families of Erasmo Seguin\, Ignacio Perez\, the Glasscocks and early oil discovery\, C. H. Guenther\, the people of Los Adaes – Texas’ first capital\, the Steves and Raba families and many others. \nThe Conference on Texas will also include the 12th Annual Texas Trailblazers Awards Luncheon\, honoring the Steves Family and featuring keynote speaker\, Catherine Nixon Cooke. Additionally\, the Conference will host the opening of the upcoming special exhibition\, Texas Art: Kinship and Culture\, featuring works from the Witte’s Texas Art collection which is renowned for its depth and size\, thousands of works on paper and more than 300 paintings\, by some of the most iconic artists of three centuries. \nPricing: General Admission: $200 per attendee  •  Educator/Student Admission: $150 per attendee \nThursday\, March 23: \n\n8:30 a.m.: Coffee and pastries\n9 a.m.: Greeting by Marise McDermott\, President and CEO\, Witte Museum\n9:15 – 10:15 a.m.: Session 1 – Francis Galan: Angelique\, Indigenous Scout of Los Adaes; Phil King: Henri Castro and the Ferdinand Louis Huth Family of Castroville; Facilitator: Gretchen Stieren O’Gorman\n10:30 – 11:30 a.m.: Session 2 – Frank de la Teja: Erasmo Seguín and the Paradox of Loyalty; Jack Hebdon\, Jr.: The Flour King: C. H. Guenther and Family; Facilitator: Francis Galan\n11:30 – 1:30 p.m.: 12th Annual Texas Trailblazers Luncheon\n1:45 – 2:45 p.m.: Session 3 – Kathleen Glasscock Tomasovic: The Glasscocks – From Circus Artistry to Oil Industry; Moderated by: Patty and Bob Hayes\n3 – 4 p.m.: Session 4 – Ramón Vásquez: The Descendants Walk Among Us; Ron Davis: Hector Bazy and the Silence of the Archives; Facilitator: Marise McDermott and Aaronetta Pierce\n4:15 – 5:15 p.m.: Session 5 – Ricardo Romo and Fidencio Duran: A Visual Story of Us\n5:30 – 7 p.m.: VIP Opening Reception for Texas Art: Kinship and Culture\n\nFriday\, March 24: \n\n9 a.m.: Coffee and pastries\n9:30 – 10:30 a.m.: Session 6 – Amy Porter: Families in the Aftermath of the 1813 Battle of Medina; Christina Villarreal: The Bigmouth of East Texas and the Unnamed Mother; Facilitator: Cecilia Ballí\n10:45 – 11:45 a.m.: Session 7 – Lionel Sosa: The Stories Art Can Tell; Facilitator: Marise McDermott and Justin Muñoz\n\nInterested in sponsoring the Conference on Texas or the Texas Trailblazers Awards Luncheon? Please contact Justin Muñoz\, Vice President of Development\, at JustinMunoz@WitteMuseum.org or 210.357.1894.
URL:https://stage.wittemuseum.org/event/2023conference-on-texas/
LOCATION:Witte Museum\, 3801 Broadway\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78209\, United States
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SUMMARY:Conference on Texas - Ode to Juneteenth: Slavery in Texas
DESCRIPTION:DECEMBER 5 – 6\, 2024  |  Slavery was foundational to the formation and growth of Texas. Ode to Juneteenth: Slavery in Texas will broaden our understanding of the ongoing legacies of slavery in Texas. \nThe 2024 Conference on Texas at the Witte Museum will reveal the foundational role of chattel slavery in the formation and growth of Texas. This 2-day museum-wide conference is led by a Steering Committee chaired by Aaronetta Pierce\, who will curate panel discussions featuring scholars from around the United States focusing on slavery in Texas\, including Dr. Daina Ramey Berry and with a keynote address from Annette Gordon-Reed\, MacArthur Genius and the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize in History. Through new scholarship\, the conference will broaden our understanding of the ongoing legacies of slavery\, which continue to impact African Americans in Texas. \nThe conference will center on the lives of the enslaved people\, especially as mothers\, fathers\, sisters\, and brothers. \nEvery facet of the expanding Texas economy was impacted by slavery and enslaved labor. Enslaved people not only labored on cotton and sugar plantations\, they also worked as artisans such as blacksmiths\, seamstresses\, and as enslaved cowboys. \nIn 1834\, there were approximately 5\,000 enslaved people in Mexican Texas. During the Republic of Texas\, slavery increased so that by 1845\, there were at least 30\,000 enslaved women\, men and children in the new state of Texas. When Texas voted to join the Confederacy in 1861\, the enslaved population was 182\,566 people\, the fastest growing demographic in Texas. The economy of Texas was so dependent upon slavery that not until June 19\, 1865\, now celebrated as Juneteenth\, were enslaved people freed from bondage in Texas\, two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. \nTicket sales available in August.  \nConference ProgramTwo-day museum-wideconference including: \n\nPanel discussions from scholars around the United States focused on Slavery in Texas\nAnticipated attendance from throughout Texas and beyond\n500+ attendees expected\n100 scholarships for college students\nKeynote speaker Annette Gordon Reed\n\nKeynote Speaker \nAnnette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and law professor. She is currently the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and a professor of history in the university’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes\, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008\, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. Her most recent book\, On Juneteenth\, provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth\, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since\, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
URL:https://stage.wittemuseum.org/event/conference-on-texas-ode-to-juneteenth-slavery-in-texas/
LOCATION:Witte Museum\, 3801 Broadway\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78209\, United States
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