AAIHS: Day 1
Below are the times and locations for Sessions 1 - 3 and the luncheon film screening with Robin Rue Simmons
Session 1: 8:30am-10:15am
1. Abolition, Control, and Preservation: Bearing Witness to the Archive’s Demand for Educational Reparations
Minor 110
All sessions run from 8:30 am - 10:15 am
Chair: Derrick P. Alridge [1], University of Virginia
Darrion Wallace [2], Stanford University
Lesson on Manifesting Freedom and Emancipation: International Perspectives on Educational Reparations from Black Anti-Slavery Abolitionists of the 19th Century
Christian Walkes [3], Harvard University
Preserving Pride: The Black Schoolhouse and Educational Reparations
Zenzile Reddick, Harvard University
Maximum Feasible Participation: The History of Community Control and the Future of Educational Reparations
2. Education and Reparations
Warner 110
Chair: Lily Santoro [4], Southeast Missouri State University
Peter H. Wood [5], Duke University
Two Centuries of Forced African American Illiteracy
Tatiana McInnis [6], North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Reparations: A Pedagogy of Possibility
Emily Masghati [7], Penn State Behrend
The Julius Rosenwald Fund and the Subversion of Restorative Justice in Higher Education
3. International Dimensions of Reparations
Warner 104
Chair: Robert Greene II [8], Claflin University
Sanyu Mulira [9], Spelman College
Gaudeloupe, Mé 1967, and the Dangerous Quagmire of Autonomy in the French Caribbean
Nicholas Andersen [10], Tufts University
The Redemption of Africa and Reparations
Reparations and Reconciliation: Exploring the Significance of Apology and Restitution for Slavery in Guyana
Session 2: 10:30 am - 12:15 pm
4. The Long History of Reparations
Minor 110
All sessions run from 10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Chair: Chloe Celeste Porche [12], University of Virginia
Cameron Sauers [13], Penn State University
The Original Case Against Reparations: James Beecher and the Betrayal of Order No. 15
Timothy Kumfer [14], Georgetown University
“If We Want to Keep It, We’ll Have to Fight For It”: The Adams Morgan Organization and the Origins of Community Reinvestment
Meredith F. Coleman-Tobias [15], Mount Holyoke College
Thirst: Spiritual Reparation and Sobonfu Somé’s Po(r)table Ritual
5. Roundtable: Descendant Communities and the Land in Viriginia
Warner 110
Chair: Justin Reid [16], Founder of Griffin Blvd Archives
Hannah Scruggs [17], Harvard University and Descendant Organizer
Auriana Woods [18], The Getting Word Oral History Project
Niya Bates, [19] Princeton University and Founder of the Scuffletown Project
6. Black Childhoods, Intellectual History & Repair: A Discussion
Warner 104
Chair: Paula C. Austin [20], Boston University
Ashleigh Greene Wade [21], University of Virginia
Justene Hill Edwards [22], University of Virginia
Luncheon and Film Session: 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Minor 125
Screening of The Big Payback, featuring film Q&A with Robin Rue Simmons
Session 3: 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
8. Towards a Vocabulary of Repair: Black Life in Colombia
Minor 110
All sessions run from 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm.
Chair: Jameelah Morris [24], Stanford University
Jameelah Morris, Stanford University
The Temporal Experience of Repair: Generational Struggles for Livability in Urban Colombia
Amber H. Henry [25], University of Virginia
A Refrigerator on the Side of the Road: Palenquera Women and the Politics of (Dis)Repair
Fatima Siwaju [26], University of Virginia
The 2017 Paro Cívico in Buenaventura: Embodied Politics of Repair in the Colombian Pacific
9. Panel Discussion: “Black Women’s Biographies” featuring Amrita Myers
Minor 125
Chair: Paula C. Austin [20], Boston University
Amrita Myers [27], Indiana University, Bloomington
10. Black Debts, Black Fortunes: Discussing Reparations for Black Womxn and Their Communities
Warner 110
Chair: Lydia Lindsey [28], North Carolina Central University
Erica Duncan [29], New York University
Enslaved and Freed Black Women’s Claims for Housing and Sustenance in the Bahamas
Carmin Wong [30], Penn State University
On Various Subjects: Phyllis Wheatley, the Foremother of Early American Poetry
Sonya Williams [31], New York University
Re-covering the Discourse of Reparative Justice & Negritud in the Works of Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe & Delia Zapata Olivella
AAIHS Awards Ceremony and Ta-Nehisi Coates Keynote Discussion: 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Warner 209
Reception: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Minor Hall Lobby
Join us for refreshments in the lobby of Minor Hall following the keynote discussion with Ta-Nehisi Coates