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John Brown, Slavery, and the Legacies of Revolutionary Violence in Our Own Time: A Conference Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Harpers Ferry Raid Oct 29-31, 2009 Yale University New Haven, Connecticut Conference Video Friday, October 30 Keynote Address W. Fitzhugh Brundage, John Brown: The Stone in the Historian's Shoe Part One Part Two Part Three John Brown: A Problem in Biography David Reynolds, How I Wrote John Brown, Abolitionist: A Cultural Biography Evan Carton, The Word and the Life: John Brown as Reader Robert Blakeslee Gilpin, The Wind and the Whirlwind: Can Biography Explain John Brown? Louis A. DeCaro Jr., The Old Man and the "DuBoisian Century"? Meditation and Speculation on the Direction of John Brown Biography in the 21st Century Moderator: David W. Blight Part One Part Two Part Three John Brown and the Arts Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, John Brown Embodied: An Afterlife in American Visual Culture Franny Nudelman, John Brown, Martin Luther King, and the Art of "Creative Suffering" Kirke Mechem, John Brown: The Opera Robert Stepto, John Brown in the Visual Art of Hovenden, Lawrence and Pippin Moderator: David W. Blight Part One Part Two Part Three SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 John Brown and the Legacies of Violence Beverly Gage, Was John Brown a Terrorist? David Rapoport, Mob Violence Kay Wright Lewis, Considerations on the Rhetoric of Race War in the Antebellum South and John Brown Caleb Smith, John Brown, Justice, and the Public Sphere Moderator: David W. Blight Part One Part Two John Brown and Abolitionism John Stauffer, 'I'll be John Browned': Abolition in the Southern Imagination Richard Blackett, John Brown and the Tradition of Attacking Slavery at the Source W. Caleb McDaniel, William Lloyd Garrison, Nonviolent Abolitionists, and John Brown Wendy Hamand Venet, John Brown, Female Abolitionists, and Rights for Women: A Mixed Legacy Moderator: David W. Blight Part One Part Two Concluding Roundtable: John Brown: A Problem for Our Own Time Russell Banks Tony Horwitz Moderator: David W. Blight Part One