Kyera Singleton, executive director of the Royall House & Slave Quarters, will be one of the panelists at the annual Tufts Community Symposium, subtitled, “Creating Knowledge: Exploring possibilities for community-based research partnerships.” Singleton will join Tufts professors Kendra Field and Kerri Greenidge in a conversation about their collective work as public historians of slavery, freedom, and African-American communities. Their public projects, including their latest work as scholars for the City of Boston’s Reparations Task Force, helps to shape the future of civic life and multiracial democracy within and beyond Boston. They will discuss the past, present and future of community-engaged research, and what it means to engage the public history and collective memory of slavery as both historian and descendant.

The keynote plenary is scheduled from 9 to 11 a.m., Breakout sessions, including one entitled “Art and Social Engagement: Community Practices and Advocacy,” will take place from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., followed by student presentations over lunch from 12:45 to 2 p.m. Registration is required through the event web page.

Sponsored by Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life, Office of the President, and Office of Government & Community Relations.