Join The American Friends of Lafayette for a day-long symposium sponsored by Fairfield University at the Fairfield University Campus on Saturday, September 7, 2024.
Morning Session 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Lafayette: Historiography and Biography, and Lessons for Today
Moderator:
Dr. Lloyd Kramer, History Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Author of Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions.
Panelists:
Dr. Robert Rhodes Crout, Affiliate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Charleston and former Co-Editor of The Lafayette Papers Project, Cornell University. President Emeritus of the American Friends of Lafayette.
Dr. Paul S. Spalding, Religion Professor Emeritus at Illinois College. Author of Lafayette: Prisoner of State.
Mike Duncan, podcaster and best-selling author of Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution.
Lunch 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm (available for purchase for onsite attendees)
Afternoon Session 1:45 pm – 4:45 pm
Lafayette and Human Rights
Moderator:
Alan Hoffman, President of the American Friends of Lafayette. Translator of Auguste Levasseur’s Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825: Journal of a Voyage to the United States
Panelists:
Dr. John Stauffer, Professor of American Studies and African American Studies at Harvard University. Author of Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
Dr. Lloyd Kramer, History Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Author of Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions.
Diane Shaw, Director Emerita of Special Collections & College Archives at Lafayette College, which has extensive holdings on the Marquis de Lafayette. Co-editor and contributing author of “A True Friend of the Cause”: Lafayette and the Antislavery Movement.
Credit: Presented with the support of the Office of the President and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Fairfield University.
