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Welcome Deeper Learners!

We are excited to welcome you to Westwood, MA at the end of September. The Deeper Learning Boston conference has a rich history. Although this is our inaugural year of the conference, the Deeper Learning movement began in the Northeast region and spread domestically and globally from there. Please enjoy this short background on the conference itself, where we honor "On Whose Shoulders We Stand: A Brief History"

This digital program is for all things DL Boston! Be sure to select one Deep Dive for Day 1 and two Den Talks for Day 2. You will only be able to sign up for one Deep Dive! These sessions have capacity limits and will fill up. To see an overview of the event and session types, check out the event flow.

We can’t wait to see you!
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Saturday, October 1 • 10:00am - 10:50am
Den Talk: Erin Kelly and Patsy Rembert discussing Winfred Rembert’s memoir, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South

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Patsy Rembert and Erin Kelly will discuss the remarkable life story of Georgia-born artist Winfred Rembert who, after getting involved in the civil rights movement, served seven years on chain gangs in Georgia, and went on to become an award-winning autobiographical artist. His illustrated memoir Chasing Me to My Grave, as told to Erin I. Kelly, with a foreword by Bryan Stevenson, was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction and won the 2022 Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. (An excerpt on Rembert’s surviving the chain gang is readable here.) Winfred Rembert’s life story not only illuminates the lasting impact of trauma from incarceration that so many Black men and women have endured, from the Jim Crow era to the present day, but also the testimonial importance of art, and the power of love.


Den Talk Speakers
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Erin Kelly

Co-author of Winfred Rembert’s memoir, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, Tufts University, Professor of Philosophy
Erin I. Kelly is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University and co-author of Winfred Rembert’s memoir, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South (Bloomsbury, 2021), which won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize in biography. She and Winfred spent three years working... Read More →
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Patsy Rembert

Featured in Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Patsy Rembert is Winfred Rembert’s wife of 46 years. She is featured in Winfred Rembert’s Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South (Bloomsbury, 2021). Winfred Rembert (1945-2021) was an artist from Cuthbert, Georgia. His... Read More →

Saturday October 1, 2022 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Auxiillary Theatre “Little Theatre”
  Den Talk Round 2