"Keep the Movement Coming On:" A Symposium in Memory of Julian Bond

October 20 - 21, 2016

"Keep the Movement Coming On" is a multi-interdisciplinary symposium organized in remembrance of Julian Bond, honoring the life and legacy of this lodestar in the modern movement for civil rights and social justice. It is altogether fitting that we host this symposium here at the University of Virginia, where Julian Bond taught for twenty years—from 1992-2012—in the Corcoran Department of History. By conservative estimates, over 5,000 students enrolled in his blockbuster course on the History of the Civil Rights Movement, "making his past our present," as one student noted. Indeed, the phrase "making his past our present" captures perhaps one of the major objectives of this symposium, which looks backward and forward simultaneously: backward at the broad arc of Bond’s 50-year career as a legislator, educator, and life-long champion for civil rights and social justice, and forward to what his illustrious career demands of those of us who strive to honor him over the next two days.

Watch video from the symposium on the Carter G. Woodson Institute's YouTube page