"Universities and Slavery: Bound by History" Schedule

Schedule

9:00 AM – Welcome

Lizabeth Cohen, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Harvard University

9:15 AM – Opening Remarks

Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University and Lincoln Professor of History

9:30 AM – Keynote

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Journalist, national correspondent for The Atlantic, author of Between the World and Me and The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Drew Gilpin Faust

10:45 AM – Slavery and Universities Nationally

Moderator: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Adam Rothman, Professor of History, Georgetown University
James T. Campbell, Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History, Stanford University
Craig Steven Wilder, Barton L. Weller Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1:15 PM – Poetry Reading

Introduced by: Vincent Brown RI ’06, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Natasha Trethewey RI ’01, former United States Poet Laureate, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing, Emory University

1:30 PM – Slavery and Harvard

Moderator: Annette Gordon-Reed RI ’16, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Harvard Law School, and Professor of History, Harvard University
Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University
Julian Bonder, Principal, Wodiczko + Bonder and Julian Bonder + Associates; Professor of Architecture, Roger Williams University
Daniel R. Coquillette, J. Donald Monan, S.J. University Professor, Boston College Law School
Alexandra Rahman ’12, Student contributor to the Harvard and Slavery Research Project

3:15 PM – Slavery and Universities Globally

Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics; Professor of African and African American Studies and of History; Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Harvard University
Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies
Max Price, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town
Christiane Taubira, former Minister of Justice (France)

4:45 PM – Concluding Remarks

Daniel Carpenter, Director of the Social Sciences Program at the Radcliffe Institute; Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Harvard University