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

  • Inye Wokoma

    Co Founder, Wa Na Wari / Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute

  • Elisheba Wokoma

    Co Founder, Wa Na Wari / Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute

  • Curry Hackett

    Curry Hackett

    Designer and Clinical Assistant Professor, Wayside Studio / NYU

  • Marta Gutman

    Dean, Spitzer School of Architecture and co-director, PMCI

  • Jerome Haferd

    Assistant Professor, Spitzer School of Architecture and co-director, PMCI

Respondents

  • Ifeoma Ebo

    Ifeoma Ebo

    CCNY/PMCI

  • CASSIM SHEPARD

    CASSIM SHEPARD

    Coordinator, Urban Studies; Distinguished Lecturer CCNY

Reception

(rooftop)

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Friday 18th, September 2026

Digitization Day

Spitzer School of Architecture

Room 107

11:30 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.

sign-up

Harlem Tour

PMCI partnered with:

Karen Taylor

While We Are Still Here

Preserving Harlem’s History

2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Starts at Spitzer School of Architecture

Harlem Various Location

Join us
  • The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture

SATURDAY 19th, September 2026

9:30 am- 11:15 aM

Spitzer School of Architecture

Harlem Place Memory + Culture, Past Present + Future

  • Najha Zigbi Johnson

    Writer and Cultural Curator, CCNY / PMCI (Former)

  • Sade Lythcott

    CEO, National Black Theatre

  • Valerie Jo Bradley

    Co-founder and President, Save Harlem Now!

  • Minkah Makalani

    Associate professor and Director of the Center for Africana Studies, JHU

Respondents

  • Moe Dieng

    Moe Dieng

    CCNY/PMCI (alumni)

  • Lorraine Colbert

    Lorraine Colbert

    CCNY Alumni

CoffeE Break

11:15 aM - 11:45 aM

(Future of) The Living Archive

11:45 aM - 1:15PM

  • Mordecai Cargill

    Co-Founder + Chief Creative Officer, ThirdSpace Action Lab + Chocolate Cities Cleveland (OH)

  • Melody Capote

    Melody Capote

    Executive Director of Caribbean Culture Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI)

  • Steven Fullwood

    Nomadic Archives, archivist, writer, and cultural documentarian

  • Idris Brewster

    Idris Brewster

    Founder, Kinfolk Tech

  • Glenn Hunter

    Glenn Hunter

    Co-Executive Director, Harlem Cultural Archives

  • Mario Carrion

    Mario Carrion

    Communications & New Media Manager at of Caribbean Culture Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI)

LUNCH Break

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Reimagining Preservation Practice

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

  • Jerome Haferd

    Assistant Professor, Spitzer School of Architecture and co-director, PMCI

  • Amber Wiley

    Associate Professor, Director of the Institute for Quality Communities, University of Oklahoma

  • Eric Riley

    Planning Principal, Konkuey Design

  • Germane Barnes

    Founder Studio Barnes, Director of the Community Housing Identity Lab (CHIL) University of Miami

  • Vanessa Morrison

    Vanessa Morrison

    Co-founder and CEO of Open Design Collective, Oklahoma Black Towns Project

Respondents

  • Jess Nolasco

    Jess Nolasco

    CCNY/PMCI alumni

  • Shawn Rickenbacker

    Shawn Rickenbacker

    Director of the J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures at CCNY and PMCI

Reception / Party

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM