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Troutbeck Symposium 2026
April 22 – 24, 2026
Where students become historians — and share what they discover.
The Troutbeck Symposium is the culminating gathering of a year of student historical inquiry across the region. Throughout the school year, students investigate the histories of their own communities — working with archives, museums, oral histories, and primary sources to uncover stories that have been overlooked, forgotten, or never recorded. At the Symposium, that work becomes public.
Over three days, more than 300 students, educators, historians, and community members gathered at Troutbeck — presenting original research, exhibiting artwork, screening films, and taking part in conversations that carried the work beyond the classroom and into public life.
Now in its fifth year, the Symposium has grown into a regional civic ecosystem of learning, connecting schools, educators, archivists, historians, artists, and cultural institutions through place-based research and student-authored public history.
POWERED BY PARTNERSHIP
The Troutbeck Symposium believes history is a collective act. Our program is co-created with schools and made possible by partners who share our commitment to civic learning, memory, and community storytelling.
Yale Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Connecticut Humanities, Creative Futures, Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation (Draper Fund), The Upper Housatonic Valley Heritage Area, America 250 | CT Commission, Canaan Historical Society, Falls Village Historical Society, Salisbury Association, Institute for American Indigenous Studies, Scoville Library, Hotchkiss Library, Amenia Historical Society, The Alexandra Peters Collection, The Cornwall Historical Society, The Town of Simsbury CT, The UCC Church of Simsbury, Housatonic Valley Association, Alex Breanne Corporation, Many Women LLC, The Kent Historical Society, Salisbury Town Hall, Lucinda's House, Austen Riggs Center, Great Mountain Forest, Floyd Patterson Boxing Club, Maryland Center for History and Culture, Connecticut Museum of History and Culture, The Eric Sloane Museum, The Wassaic Project, The Salisbury Forum
SCHOLARS, ARTISTS & PUBLIC HISTORIANS
Hasan Kwame Jeffries — Ohio State University
Christina Proenza-Coles — University of Virginia
Michael Morand — Yale Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Wunneanatsu Lamb-Cason — Brown University
Taha Clayton — artist
Nathalie Baxter — artist
Candice Hoyes — vocalist and scholar
Lerone Martin — Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University
Jonathan Eig — author and MLK scholar
Miguel Cardona — former U.S. Secretary of Education
Jonathan James Perry — Aquinnah Wampanoag artist, educator, and traditional wampum artist
Russell Shorto — author and historian
An enormous thanks to the organizations and private entities who have supported the Troutbeck Symposium this year.
