
Image courtesy of the BCC Archives.
All events will take place in the Roscoe Brown Student Center, Room 211.
9-9:30—Registration/Coffee and breakfast
9:30-10–Opening Remarks
Kate Culkin, Associate Professor, Department of History, Bronx Community College
10:00-11:00–Panel 1: Commemoration
John Ahearn, sculptor (with Rigoberto Torres), “South Bronx Hall of Fame”
Prithi Kanakamedala, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bronx Community College-CUNY
Ruth Sergel, artist-activist, See You in the Streets: Art, Action + Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (University of Iowa Press, 2016)
11:15-12:15–Panel 2: Bronx Histories
Angel Hernandez, Director of Programs and External Relations, The Bronx County Historical Society
Elena Martinez, Co-Artistic Director, Bronx Music Heritage Center
Philip Panaritis, Co-Founder, Hunts Point Slave Burying Ground Project; Senior Borough Instructional Lead for Social Studies, Bronx Field Support Center
12:15-1:15–Lunch
1:20-2:20pm–Panel 3: Students, History, & the Hall of Fame
Susan Amper, Professor, Department of English, Bronx Community College-CUNY
Janet Bunde, University Archivist, New York University
William deJong-Lambert, Associate Professor, History Department, Bronx Community College-CUNY
Catriona Schlosser, Archivist, CUNY Television
Cynthia Tobar, Head of Archives, Bronx Community College-CUNY
2:30-3:10–Campus Tour
Robin Auchincloss, Director of Campus and Facilities Planning, Bronx Community College-CUNY