AAIHS: Day 2
Below are the times and locations for Sessions 1 - 3 and the closing reception featuring the music of JoVia Armstrong
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 [1], University of Washington Tacoma
Robin Proudie [2], Executive Director of the Descendants of the Saint Louis University Enslaved
Kamm Howard [3], Executive Director of Reparations United
Christopher Tinson [4], Saint Louis University
12. Modern Ideas About Reparations
Warner 104
Chair: Kersuze Simeon-Jones [5], University of South Florida
Willie Mack [6], 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 [7], Cleveland State University
“A Citizen of a Country That Does Not Yet Exist”: Airlift Africa and Higher Education During the Bandung Era
Ashleigh Cartwright [8], University of Pennsylvania
White Power and Profit in U.S. Public School Integration
Jacob Ivey [9], 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 [10], University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Nicole Viglini, [11] 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 [12], University of California, Los Angeles
Entangled Histories, Ecological Imperialism and Pan-African Futures
Rozanne Gooding Silverwood [13], Columbia University
Reconciling a Sovereign Debt: A Close Reading of the FWP Narratives That Preserve the Erased History of Indian Slaveholding
Nicole M. Gipson [14], 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 [15], Howard University
Linda J. Mann [16], George Mason University
Corey C. Shaw [17], D.C. Legacy Project Director of Empower DC
Charkera Ervin [18], Human Rights Counsel for UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
15. Reparations and American Empire
Warner 104
Chair: Robert Greene II [19], Claflin University
DJ Polite [20], Augusta University
U.S. Jim Crow Empire to Revolutionary Cuba
Tejasvi Nagaraja [21], Cornell University
War, Anti-War and Reparations
Kimberly F. Monroe [22], 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 [23]” 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 [24], University of Missouri
Camille Walsh [25], University of Washington Bothell
Esther Cyna [26], Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, Paris-Saclay Mike Amezcua, Georgetown University
Response by Andrew Kahrl [27], University of Virginia
17. Reparations and the Long Civil Rights Era
Minor 110
Chair: Jacob Ivey [28], Florida Memorial University
Andrew J. Douglas [29], Morehouse College
Reparative Money: The Monetary Theory of Robert S. Browne
Sam Klug [30], Loyola University Maryland
More Than a Manifesto: Reparations and the Political Economy of Black Power
Adriana Green [31], 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 [32] (UVA Music) and her band!