4:00 p.m.
Thomas Dixon and "The Birth of a Nation":
African American Responses
Winston-Salem State University
The Reynolds Center, Room 136

Moderator: Bill Leonard
Dean of the Divinity School
Wake Forest University

Moderator: Lenwood Davis
Professor of History
Winston-Salem State University

Carlton Eversley
Pastor, Dellabrook Presbyterian Church
Adjunct Professor
Wake Forest University Divinity School

Nat Irvin
Assistant Dean
Babcock Graduate School of Management
Wake Forest University

Michelle Meggs
Graduate Student
Wake Forest University Divinity School

Sean Khalil Spillman
Alumnus
Winston-Salem State University

6:00 p.m.
Reception/Light Buffet Dinner
North Carolina School of the Arts
School of Filmmaking
ACE Exhibition Complex, Main Theatre

7:00 p.m.
Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W. Griffith
Film screening, North Carolina School of the Arts

Welcome:
Dale Pollock
Dean of the School of Filmmaking
North Carolina School of the Arts

Introduction of film:
Candyce Leonard
Associate Professor of Humanities
Wake Forest University

8:45 a.m.
Refreshments/Registration
Tribble Lobby

9:00 a.m.
Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux
Film Screening: De Tamble Auditorium, Tribble
Introduction of film:
Charlene Regester
Adjunct Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

11:30 p.m.
Lunch buffet, Autumn Room

1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
"Thomas Dixon on Screen"
De Tamble Auditorium, Tribble
Presiding:
Mary Dalton
Assistant Professor of Communication
Wake Forest University

Presenting:
"Thomas Dixon and Race Melodrama"
Jane Gaines
Professor of Literature and English
Director, Program in Art and Film
Duke University

"The Cinematic Representation of Race in The Birth of a Nation: A Black Horror Film"
Charlene Regester
Adjunct Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Comments:
David Lubin
Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art
Wake Forest University

2:30-3:00 p.m.
Break, Tribble Lobby

3:00-4:30 p.m
"The History and Memory of Thomas Dixon at Wake Forest"
De Tamble Auditorium, Tribble
Presiding:
Howell Smith
Professor of History
Wake Forest University

Presenting:
J. Edwin Hendricks
Professor of History
Wake Forest University

Panelists:
Edwin G. Wilson
Senior Vice President
Wake Forest University

Sarah Watts
Associate Professor of History
Wake Forest University

Raymond A. Cook
Professor Emeritus of English
Valdosta State University

6:00-8:00 p.m.
Wine and Cheese Reception followed by
Dinner Buffet, Gerald Johnson Room, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

8:00 p.m.
Scales 102
Welcome and Introduction:
Paul Escott
Reynolds Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Wake Forest University

Keynote:
"Thomas Dixon: An American Proteus"
W. Fitzhugh Brundage
William B. Umstead Professor of History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

9:00-10:30 a.m.
"The World of Thomas Dixon"
De Tamble Auditorium, Tribble
Presiding:
Anthony Parent
Associate Professor of History
Wake Forest University

Presenting:
"Southern Reaction to The Clansman on Stage (1905) and Screen (1915)"
John Inscoe
Professor of History
University of Georgia

"'This radical of radicals': Kelly Miller and Sutton E. Griggs on Dixon's The Leopard's Spots"
John David Smith
Graduate Alumni Distinguished Professor of History
North Carolina State University

Comments:
William A. Link
Lucy Spinks Keker Excellence Professor of History
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

10:30-11:00 a.m.
Break, Tribble Lobby

11:00-12:30
Undergraduate Session
De Tamble Auditorium, Tribble
Presiding:
Simone Caron
Associate Professor
Wake Forest University

Comments:
Catherine Clinton
Associate, Gilder Lehrman Center
Yale University

12:30-2:00 p.m.
Lunch, Autumn Room

One Scholar's Journey with Thomas Dixon
Reflections by
Joel Williamson
Lineberger Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:00-3:30 p.m.
"Thomas Dixon and the Social Aspects of Christianity"
De Tamble Auditorium, Tribble
Presiding:
Bill J. Leonard
Dean
Wake Forest University Divinity School

Presenting:
"Gender and Race in Dixon's Religious Ideology"
Cynthia Lynn Lyerly
Associate Professor of History
Boston College

"The Problem of Prooftexting from the Works of Thomas Dixon, Jr."
David Stricklin
Associate Professor of History
Lyon College

Comments:
Samuel S. Hill
Professor Emeritus of Religion
University of Florida

3:30-4:00 p.m.
Tribble Lobby
Break

4:00-5:30 p.m.
"Literary Strategy in the Novels of Thomas Dixon"
De Tamble Auditorium, Tribble
Presiding:
Catherine Clinton
Associate, Gilder Lehrman Center
Yale University

Presenting:
"Petticoats, Prejudice, and Patriarchy in the Novels of Thomas Dixon"
Barbara Bennett
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Wake Forest University

"Thomas Dixon and the Literary Production of Whiteness"
Scott Romine
Associate Professor of English
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Comments:
Richard King
Visiting Professor of History
Vanderbilt University

6:00 p.m.
Clonts Lecture
Scales 102
"Do Movies Have Rights"
Louis Menand
Distinguished Professor of English
CUNY-Graduate Center