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.

Tiya Miles is a public historian and the author of eight books that explore Black, Indigenous, and women’s history; place and environment; and contemporary uses of the past. These works include four prize-winning histories and one prize-winning novel about slavery and its legacies. Her 2021 National Book Award winner, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, was a New York Times bestseller that won eleven historical and literary prizes. Her latest work is Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Her other books include: Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation, The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits, The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era, and the novel, The Cherokee Rose. She publishes frequently in national periodicals, and her work has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation (“genius award”), the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and she is currently the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University.

The event will take place in the Washington Room, located on the 2nd floor of Mather Hall at Trinity College.

Parking:
Parking is available along Summit Street and near Seabury Hall.

Directions:
After parking, walk to Mather Hall and proceed to the 2nd floor to find the Washington Room.

Please allow a few extra minutes to park and walk to the building.

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