2018 SYMPOSIUM SURVEYS
The John Hope Franklin Symposium Committee welcomes your feedback to use in planning future events. Please rate the overall quality of the symposium and individual presentators. Please click on the link for the "2018 Symposium Overall Evaluation" and the link(s) that corresponds to the Plenary and Symposium Sessions that you attended. Again, we thank you for your time.
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Symposium Session 1 - Robert Frantz: “How Your Grandparents’ Struggles Live On in Your Genetics,” with introduction by
Valerie O’Brien, “Understanding DNA and Its Connection to Reconciliation”
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Symposium Session 2
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Steve Gerkin: “DNA of Greenwood Czars”: “Green Book Project” - Click Here to Take Survey
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Valerie McGaha & Rochelle Cassidy: “Race-Based Relations in Higher Education” - Click Here to Take Survey
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Carl Murrell and PJ Andrews (United Nations Delegates): “What is The Role of Justice and Unity in the Reconciliation of Racism?” - Click Here to Take Survey
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Mike McUsic - "Green Book Project" - Click Here to Take Survey
Reconciliation Café - Table conversations to make connections of Symposium topics with real-world reconciliation approaches
that can be applied personally and within organizations around the world.
Facilitated by Kelli McLoud-Schigen - Click Here to Take Survey
Lunch Panel Discussion - National and local experts from the religious community focus on the Symposium theme, “The DNA of
Reconciliation,” providing perspective on how various religions approach reconciliation by finding
common ground in difference. - Click Here to Take Survey
Panel Speakers Were:
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Rev. Dr. Bill Crowell, St Paul’s United Methodist Church Tulsa, OK
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Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar, Senior Minister All Souls Unitarian Church Tulsa, OK
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Rev. Dr. Robert R. A. Turner, Pastor, Historical Vernon Chapel A.M.E. Tulsa, OK
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Rev. Weldon L. Tisdale Senior Pastor Friendship Baptist Church
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Bishop Carlton Pearson
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Rabbi Marc Boone Fitzerman Congregation B'nai Emunah
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Aliye Shimi, Director of Outreach and Public Relations for the Islamic Society of Tulsa
Plenary Session - Vanessa Adams-Harris performs “Big Mama Speaks,” a one-act vignette (based on Hannibal B. Johnson’s book, Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District). - Click Here to Take Survey
Symposium Session 3
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Diane Beckham: (Montessori-based) “Peaceful Children, Peaceful World” - Click Here to Take Survey
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Lincoln Brown, Joan L. Brown, and Lindsey Barbaur: “Examining Embedded Beliefs with Entrepreneurial Cognition”
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Lonnie Johnson & Ben Bates: “The Discursive Power of Statuary Displays” - Click Here to Take Survey
Friday, June 1, 2018
Informal Session - "Breakfast with a Biologist" - Dr. Valerie O'Brien - Click Here to Take Survey
Symposium Session 4 - TheRese Anderson-Aduni: “Black Wall Street (1948-1952), the People and Businesses”
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Symposium Session 5
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Drew Diamond & Ruth Askew Brelsford: "Reconciliation” + Racially Biased Policing: A Principled
Response” - Click Here to Take Survey
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Ramona Curtis: "Living Room Conversations" - Click Here to Take Survey
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Emily Imani: "Understanding Epigenetics" - Click Here to Take Survey
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Ronald Graham on “Freedmen History & Genealogy of Indian Territory” - Click Here to Take Survey
Plenary Session
Michelle Place, Executive Director of the Tulsa Historical Society presents an interactive session on “The Danger of Misrepresentation in History,” connecting how incomplete and sometimes purposeful omissions of stories or perspectives of historical events exposes our future to vulnerable outcomes. Click Here to Take Survey
Lunch Panel Discussion - Richard Baxter, Founder of social advocacy group Racism Stinks, shares his reconciliation story. And
US Senator James Lankford provides how he advocates for keeping the national legislators aware of
the 1921 Race Massacre and how we as citizens can be more effective in elevating our reconciliation
strategies to a national level. - Click Here to Take Survey
Reconciliation Café - Table conversations to make connections of Symposium topics with real-world reconciliation approaches
that can be applied personally and within organizations around the world.
Facilitated by Kelli McLoud-Schigen - Click Here to Take Survey
End-of-Symposium Reflection - Participants consider their after-symposium actions and have an eye-to-eye experience of what
connects and unites us in our reconciliation work. - Click Here to Take Survey
Closing Session: My DNA Reconciliation Pledge - Click Here to Take Survey