The following announcement is posted by request.  --Moderator, NYHIST-L

The Underground Railroad History Project of the (New York) Capital
Region, Inc.

"The Underground Railroad: Connecting Pathways To Liberty"

A Conference On The Underground Railroad Movement In New York State
(For more information and to register: www.ugrworkshop.com)

Friday, Saturday, Sunday - February 24, 25, 26, 2006
To be held at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York

Featuring Speakers:
David Blight, PhD - Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study
of 
Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition of Yale University

and

Erica Ball, PhD - Assistant Professor of History at Union College in 
Schenectady

(See their photos at www.ugrworkshop.com)

and

Earl White - The leading, and award winning, African American Old Time
and 
Appalachian fiddle player in the country featuring music in the spirit
of 
Solomon Northup

and

a tour of Troy Underground Railroad sites and features

and

35 workshops featuring young people, teachers, scholars, musicians, 
drummers, dancers, archeologists, historians, and independent 
researchers...including...

Mayeesa Mitchell, student presenter
Amy Murrell Taylor, Assistant Professor of History, SUNYA
Don Papson, Vivian Papson, Rev. Fred Shaw, independent researchers and

re-enactors
Students from New Covenant Charter School, Albany
Dr. Elaine Hadley, Empire State College
Neil B. Yetwin, independent researcher and educator
Stephen Marc, Prof. of Art, Arizona State Univ
Fergus Bordewich, author
Binod Sundararajan, Doctoral Candidate, Literature and Communication,
RPI
Greg Mosley, Music artist, Operation Unite Education and Cultural Arts
Center
Julia Killey, Meghan Vacca, Zippy Gilmore, Alexandra Ktenas, Regina
Morgan, 
RSC Student presenters
Prof. Jennifer Ball, Adjunct Professor, Russell Sage College
Vibetta Sanders, clinical social worker, school administrator, 
multi-cultural consultant, independent researcher
Dr. Mary Nell Morgan-Brown, Associate Professor, Empire State College
Norman K. Dann, Prof. Emeritus of Social Sciences, Morrisville State
College
Maren Stein, Assoc. Prof. Emeritus, Russell Sage College
Billie Luisi-Potts, Executive Dir., National Women's Hall of Fame
Walter Gable, Seneca County Historian
Dr. Judith Wellman, Historian and Director, Seneca County UGR Railroad

Resources
Dr. Milton Sernett, Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University
Harry Bradshaw Matthews, Associate Dean and Director, US Pluralism 
Programs; Executive Director, USCT Institute
Wanda Webster, Artistic Director, UGR Players
Elena Mosley, Dance artist, Operation Unite Education and Cultural Arts
Center
Hugh C. Humphreys, retired Madison County judge and adjunct professor
at 
Syracuse University
Jane Williamson, Director, Rokeby Museum
Scott Christianson, researcher and author
Kevin Cottrell & Jessica Thrope, co-owners, Mo Better Buffalo
Robert K. Wallace, Regents Prof., Northern Kentucky Univ.
April L. Harris, Adjunct Faculty, Sonoma State Univ., Syracuse Univ.
Clifford Oliver, independent researcher, artistic photographer
Nancy Marie Payne, storyteller
Lisa Anderson, Bioarcheologist
Corey McQuinn, archeologist
Cordell Reaves, Heritage NY
Paul Stewart, URHPCR
Edward Shaughnessy, Prof. of Sociology and Law, John Jay College, CUNY
Oscar Williams, Asst. Prof., Africana Studies, SUNYA
Sheri Jackson, Northeast Regional Coordinator, National Park Service 
Network to Freedom Program
Donald Hyman, educator, writer, actor, singer
Steve Tyson, independent researcher
Amy Godine, independent scholar, curator, and author


Organized by Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital
Region, 
Inc., dedicated to researching, celebrating, and preserving the Capital

Region's Underground Railroad story, with an emphasis on
African-American 
Abolitionists and Freedom Seekers.

URHPCR, Inc. - P.O. Box 10851 - Albany, New York 12201 - (518) 432-4432
- 
www.ugrworkshop.com