Brown & Slavery & Justice

Steering Committee Event Archive

Poster for Open Letter to Jonathan Doe

An Open Letter to Mr. Jonathan Doe: Some Reflections On Racial Inequality In the United States

A lecture presented by the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice

by John Hope Franklin Chair of President Clinton's Initiative on Race, author, and James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University

Introduction

by President Ruth J. Simmons

Tuesday, September 21, 2004 – 7:30 p.m. Salomon Center 001 Brown University

Free and open to the public.

Poster for The Texture of Slavery event

The Texture of Slavery in Rhode Island

A panel discussion presented by the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice

Butchers, Bakers and Candlestick Makers:Rhode Island Slave Traders

Rachel Chernos-Lin Brown Department of History

African Life and Death in Colonial Newport

Keith Stokes Newport Chamber of Commerce

Slave Labor at the College Edifice:The Construction of University Hall

Robert Emlen Brown University Curator

Tuesday, September 21, 2004 – 7:30 p.m. Salomon Center 001 Brown University

Free and open to the public.

Poster for lecture by David Blight

Have Memories of Slavery and the Civil War United or Divided Americans?

A lecture presented by the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice

by David Blight Professor of History at Yale University and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition

Wednesday, November 3, 2004 – 7:30 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 117 Brown University

Free and open to the public.
Wheelchair accessible.

Poster for Unchained Memories event

Unchained Memories

The Fight Against Slavery: The Story of the Underground Railroad

Film Screening and Discussion

“Unchained Memories” PBS documentary on African American slave narratives

Monday, November 8, 2004 – 7:30 p.m. Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106 Brown University

Public Lecture

“The Fight Against Slavery:The Story of the Underground Railroad”

Tuesday, November 9, 2004 – 7:30 p.m. Salomon Center 001 Brown University

Presented by

Spencer Crew ‘71 Executive Director of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

Free and open to the public.
Wheelchair accessible.

Poster for Sins of the Fathers event

Sins of the Fathers?Historical Injustice and Present Responsibility

“Of Memory and Forgetting: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921”

A lecture by Alfred BrophyProfessor of Law at the University of Alabama

Tuesday, November 30, 2004 – 7:30 P.M. Salomon Center 001 Brown University

“Slavery and the Problem of Institutional Complicity”

A panel discussion with Alfred Brophy University of Alabama

and Anne Farrow Hartford Courant

Wednesday, December 1, 2004 – 7:30 p.m. Salomon Center, Room 001

Free and open to the public.
Wheelchair accessible.

Poster for Priscilla's Homecoming event

Priscilla’s Homecoming: Following the Route of a Rhode Island Slave Ship Back to Africa

A lecture presented by the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice

by Joseph OpalaProfessor of History at James Madison University

Monday, February 7, 2005 – 7:30 p.m. Salomon Center 001 Brown University

Free and open to the public.
Wheelchair accessible.

Poster for Slavery in American Memory

Slavery in American Memory

“Presenting America’s Most Un-American History”

James O. Horton Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Civilization and History, George Washington University and President, Organization of American Historians

“Avoiding History: Public Responses to the Jefferson – Hemmings DNA Controversy”

Lois E. Horton Dept of Sociology, George Mason University

Monday, February 28, 2005 – 7:30 P.M. Salomon Center 001 Brown University

Screening and discussion of new PBS documentary, “Slavery and the Making of America”

James and Lois Horton

Tuesday, March 1, 2005 – 7:30 P.M. Smith-Buonanno 106

Free and open to the public.
Wheelchair accessible.

Poster for Legacies of Slavery in American Life event

Legacies of Slavery in American Life:Politics, Education, and the Arts

An Interdisciplinary Workshop

Friday, September 30, and Saturday, October 1, 2005 Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106 Brown University

Friday, September 30

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Slavery in the Artistic and Popular Imagination

Ashraf RushdyWesleyan University

“Slavery’s New Narratives; Slavery’s New Apologists”


Lisa WoolforkUniversity of Virginia

“Re-embodying American Slavery: Encountering Trauma in the Literary and Popular Imagination“

7:30 - 9:00 p.m.

A Reading and Talk by John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar WidemanBrown University

Saturday, October 1

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Reproducing Inequality

Linda Williams University of Maryland “Has the Voting Rights Act Worked? Confronting the Legacy of Political Discrimination”

Amanda Lewis University of Illinois, Chicago “Explaining Racial Inequality in Educational Outcomes: Why History Matters”

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Empathy and its Absence: Slavery, Race, Stigma

Glenn Loury Brown University “The Dynamics of Racial Inequality”

Tyrone Forman University of Illinois, Chicago “Race, Apathy, and Hurricane Katrina: The Anatomy of Racial Prejudice in the Post-Civil Rights Era”

12:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Roundtable discussion

Free and open to the public.
Wheelchair accessible.

Poster for Repairing the Past

Repairing the Past: Confronting the Legacies of Slavery, Genocide, & Caste

7th Annual International Conference

Keynote Address

Mary Frances Berry University of Pennsylvania; Former Chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission

October 27th - 29th, 2005 Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue Yale University New Haven, CT

Sessions:
  • Philosophy of Reparations
  • Law and the Politics of Memory and Atonement
  • American Slavery and Reparations
  • Germany, the Holocaust, and Historical Justice
  • Slavery and Exploitation in Latin America
  • The Caste System in Global Comparison
Free and open to the public.

Poster for Slavery & Justice: Our other heritage

Slavery & Justice:Our other heritage

A Public Forum

Presented by the Warren Preservation Society and Brown University’s Steering Committee on Slavery & Justice in cooperation with Roger Williams University School of Law

Navigating the Past:Voyage of the Slave Ship ‘Sally’, 1764-1765

The only Warren presentation of this historical exhibition currently touring Rhode Island

Prof. James Campbell Chair, Brown University’s Steering Committee on Slavery & Justice

Rhode Island & the Negro Cloth

Rhode Island’s role in the slave trade economy through the participation of local textile mills.

Ms. Susan Oba Brown University Honors Program

Monetary Remedies for the Descendants of Slaves

Placed in historical context, Prof. Murphy will present efforts in Congress and the courts to consider reparations for slavery.

Prof. Colleen Murphy Roger Williams School of Law

Thursday, May 25th, 2006 – 6:30 pm First United Methodist Church 25 Church Street, Warren, RI