Session 1: 8:30am-10:15am

11. Do You See God in Us? Slavery, Reparations, and Repair in Midwestern Jesuit University​

Minor 110

All sessions run from 8:30 am - 10:15 am

Chair: Luther Adams, University of Washington Tacoma

Robin Proudie, Executive Director of the Descendants of the Saint Louis University Enslaved

Kamm Howard, Executive Director of Reparations United

Christopher Tinson, Saint Louis University

12. Modern Ideas About Reparations

Warner 104

Chair: Kersuze Simeon-Jones, University of South Florida

Willie Mack, University of Missouri
“It Was an Attack On All of Us”: Haitians and Black Americans in New York City and the Korean Grocer Boycott

Karen Sotiropoulos, Cleveland State University
“A Citizen of a Country That Does Not Yet Exist”: Airlift Africa and Higher Education During the Bandung Era

Ashleigh Cartwright, University of Pennsylvania
White Power and Profit in U.S. Public School Integration

Jacob Ivey, Florida Memorial University
“We Have Got the Power Brokers’ Attention”: Black Economic Power and the Anti- Apartheid Movement in South Florida

13. The Ideologies of Reparations

Warner 110

Chair: Gregory Mixon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Nicole Viglini, Penn State University
“It Would Only Be An Act of Justice to Pay Us”: Propertied Black Women’s Ideologies of Repair in the Era of Freedom

Keston K. Perry, University of California, Los Angeles
Entangled Histories, Ecological Imperialism and Pan-African Futures

Rozanne Gooding Silverwood, Columbia University
Reconciling a Sovereign Debt: A Close Reading of the FWP Narratives That Preserve the Erased History of Indian Slaveholding

Nicole M. Gipson, University of Bristol Reparations: A Transatlantic Project

Session 2: 10:30 am - 12:15 pm

14. Building a Cast for Reparations

Minor 110

All sessions run from 10:30 am - 12:15 pm

Chair: Justin Hansford, Howard University

Linda J. Mann, George Mason University

Corey C. Shaw, D.C. Legacy Project Director of Empower DC

Charkera Ervin, Human Rights Counsel for UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent

15. Reparations and American Empire

Warner 104

Chair: Robert Greene II, Claflin University

DJ Polite, Augusta University
U.S. Jim Crow Empire to Revolutionary Cuba

Tejasvi Nagaraja, Cornell University

War, Anti-War and Reparations

Kimberly F. Monroe, Trinity Washington University
“Down South in the Summertime”: Assata Shakur, Reparations, and the Black Freedom Struggle

Swords into Ploughshares Presentation 12:30 - 1:30 pm

Minor 110

Andrea Douglas, Executive Director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center

Jalane Schmidt, Director of the UVA Democracy Initiative’s Memory Project

“Swords into Ploughshares: The Future of the Robert E. Lee Statue”  is an innovative project to melt down the statue of Robert E. Lee that formerly stood in one of Charlottesville’s public parks and use the bronze to make a new work of public art.

Session 3: 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm

16. Author Meets Engaged Readers: Roundtable on Andrew W. Kahrl’s The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

Minor 125

All sessions run from 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm.  

Devin Fergus, University of Missouri
Camille Walsh, University of Washington Bothell
Esther Cyna, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, Paris-Saclay Mike Amezcua, Georgetown University
Response by Andrew Kahrl, University of Virginia

17. Reparations and the Long Civil Rights Era

Minor 110

Chair: Jacob Ivey, Florida Memorial University

Andrew J. Douglas, Morehouse College
Reparative Money: The Monetary Theory of Robert S. Browne

Sam Klug, Loyola University Maryland
More Than a Manifesto: Reparations and the Political Economy of Black Power

Adriana Green, University of California

Berkeley 40 Acres and the Moon

Reception, 3:30 pm-5:15 pm, Minor Hall Lobby

Enjoy refreshments and fellowship in the lobby of Minor Hall ahead of JoVia Armstrong's musical performance

Special Musical Performance by JoVia Armstrong, 5:30 - 6:15 pm, Warner 209

Join us for a special musical performance by JoVia Armstrong (UVA Music) and her band!