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.
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.
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.
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.
Sponsored by the Wayland Collegium and the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice
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.
Sponsored by the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice – Brown University
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.
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.
Presented by the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice and by Brown University’s Black History Month committee.
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.
Sponsored by the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice.
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.
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Co-Sponsored by the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery & Justice.
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