Trinity College | Hartford, Connecticut
 Saturday, April 18, 2026
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Registration opens at 8:00 a.m.)

This year’s theme, “Stowe in Context & Conversation,” invites us to situate Stowe within the moral, political, and literary currents of the 19th century — and to ask how her work continues to shape public life today.

Across panels, roundtables, and keynote address, the symposium explores:

• Stowe in her historical moment
• The domestic, theological, and intellectual worlds she inhabited
• Her anti-slavery literary imagination
• The ongoing legacy of her work beyond Uncle Tom’s Cabin

The Stowe Symposium is both scholarly and public — a space where research meets reflection and history meets the present.

We are honored to welcome award-winning historian Dr. Tiya Miles as our keynote speaker.

Dr. Miles is the author of the National Book Award–winning All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, as well as Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People and Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation. Her scholarship illuminates the emotional and material lives of 19th-century Black women and families, offering powerful insight into the moral imagination of the era Stowe inhabited.

Her keynote will be followed by audience Q&A.

• Four scholarly panels
• Lunchtime roundtable conversation- Lunch and Refreshments Included with Registration
• Keynote address and Q&A
• Annual recognition of outstanding new Stowe scholarship

The day concludes with closing reflections at 5:00 p.m.

Presented in partnership with Trinity College and The New England Quarterly.