Program
Please check program periodically as exact times may change
Thursday - Keynote & Reception
Friday - Dig Day and Harlem Partners Tour
Saturday - Panels and Closing
Thursday 17th, September 2026
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Spitzer School of Architecture
Auditorium Room 107
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Inye Wokoma
Co Founder, Wa Na Wari / Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute
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Elisheba Wokoma
Co Founder, Wa Na Wari / Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute
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Curry Hackett
Designer and Clinical Assistant Professor, Wayside Studio / NYU
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Marta Gutman
Dean, Spitzer School of Architecture and co-director, PMCI
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Jerome Haferd
Assistant Professor, Spitzer School of Architecture and co-director, PMCI
Respondents
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Ifeoma Ebo
CCNY/PMCI
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Lorraine Colbert
CCNY Alumni
Reception
(rooftop)
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Friday 18th, September 2026
Digitization Day
Spitzer School of Architecture
Room 128
10:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Digitize your own personal Archive! Join the Harlem Place Memory & Culture Archive (HPMCA) at The City College of New York, Spitzer School of Architecture for our Symposium Digitization Event.
Harlem Tour
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Starts at Spitzer School of Architecture
Harlem Various Location
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The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture
141 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031
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New Heritage Theatre
229 W 135th St 1st floor, New York, NY 10030
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Maysles Documentary Center
343 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10030
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CCCADI
120 E 125th St, New York, NY 10035
SATURDAY 19th, September 2026
9:30 am- 11:15 aM
Spitzer School of Architecture
Harlem Place Memory + Culture, Past Present + Future
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Marta Gutman
Dean, Spitzer School of Architecture and co-director, PMCI
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Jerome Haferd
Assistant Professor, Spitzer School of Architecture and co-director, PMCI
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Najha Zigbi Johnson
Writer and Cultural Curator, CCNY / PMCI (Former)
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Sade Lythcott
CEO, National Black Theatre
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Valerie Jo Bradley
Co-founder and President, Save Harlem Now!
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Minkah Makalani
Associate professor and Director of the Center for Africana Studies, JHU
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Karen D Tayler
Founding Director, Public Historian, While We Are Still Here
Respondents
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Moe Dieng
CCNY/PMCI (alumni)
CoffeE Break
11:15 aM - 11:45 aM
(Future of) The Living Archive
11:45 aM - 1:15PM
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jah sayers
Post Doctorate Fellow, CUNY Graduate Center, PMCI
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Mordecai Cargill
Co-Founder + Chief Creative Officer, ThirdSpace Action Lab + Chocolate Cities Cleveland (OH)
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Vanessa Morrison
Co-founder and CEO of Open Design Collective, Oklahoma Black Towns Project
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Steven Fullwood
Nomadic Archives, n archivist, writer, and cultural documentarian
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Idris Brewster
Founder, Kinfolk Tech
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Melody Capote
Executive Director of Caribbean Culture Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI)
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Glenn Hunter
Co-Executive Director, Harlem Cultural Archives
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Jervette Ward
Chair & Associate Professor, Director Black Studies, CCNY
LUNCH Break
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Reimagining Preservation Practice
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
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Jerome Haferd
Assistant Professor, Spitzer School of Architecture and co-director, PMCI
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Amber Wiley
Associate Professor, Director of the Institute for Quality Communities, University of Oklahoma
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Eric Riley
Planning Principal, Konkuey Design
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Germane Barnes
Founder Studio Barnes, Director of the Community Housing Identity Lab (CHIL) University of Miami
Respondents
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Jess Nolasco
CCNY/PMCI alumni