Below are the times and locations for Sessions 1 - 3 and the luncheon film screening with Robin Rue Simmons
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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, University of Virginia
Darrion Wallace, Stanford University
Lesson on Manifesting Freedom and Emancipation: International Perspectives on Educational Reparations from Black Anti-Slavery Abolitionists of the 19th Century
Christian Walkes, 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, Southeast Missouri State University
Peter H. Wood, Duke University
Two Centuries of Forced African American Illiteracy
Tatiana McInnis, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Reparations: A Pedagogy of Possibility
Emily Masghati, 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, Claflin University
Sanyu Mulira, Spelman College
Gaudeloupe, Mé 1967, and the Dangerous Quagmire of Autonomy in the French Caribbean
Nicholas Andersen, Tufts University
The Redemption of Africa and Reparations
Nigel Westmaas, Hamilton College
Reparations and Reconciliation: Exploring the Significance of Apology and Restitution for Slavery in Guyana
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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, University of Virginia
Cameron Sauers, Penn State University
The Original Case Against Reparations: James Beecher and the Betrayal of Order No. 15
Timothy Kumfer, 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, Mount Holyoke College
Thirst: Spiritual Reparation and Sobonfu Somé’s Po(r)table Ritual
5. Roundtable: Descendant Communities and the Land in Virginia
Warner 110
Chair: Justin Reid, Founder of Griffin Blvd Archives
Hannah Scruggs, Harvard University and Descendant Organizer
Auriana Woods, The Getting Word Oral History Project
Niya Bates, Princeton University and Founder of the Scuffletown Project
6. Black Childhoods, Intellectual History & Repair: A Discussion
Warner 104
Chair: Paula C. Austin, Boston University
Ashleigh Greene Wade, University of Virginia
Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia
Corinne T. Field, University of Virginia
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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
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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, Stanford University
Jameelah Morris, Stanford University
The Temporal Experience of Repair: Generational Struggles for Livability in Urban Colombia
Amber H. Henry, University of Virginia
A Refrigerator on the Side of the Road: Palenquera Women and the Politics of (Dis)Repair
Fatima Siwaju, 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, Boston University
Amrita Myers, Indiana University, Bloomington
10. Black Debts, Black Fortunes: Discussing Reparations for Black Womxn and Their Communities
Warner 110
Chair: Lydia Lindsey, North Carolina Central University
Erica Duncan, New York University
Enslaved and Freed Black Women’s Claims for Housing and Sustenance in the Bahamas
Carmin Wong, Penn State University
On Various Subjects: Phyllis Wheatley, the Foremother of Early American Poetry
Sonya Williams, New York University
Re-covering the Discourse of Reparative Justice & Negritud in the Works of Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe & Delia Zapata Olivella
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AAIHS Awards Ceremony and Ta-Nehisi Coates Keynote Discussion: 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Warner 209
AAIHS Awards Ceremony
Ta-Nehisi Coates Keynote Discussion
Warner 209
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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