American Universities, Monuments, and the Legacies of Slavery. Provost Symposium

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1 American Universities, Monuments, and the Legacies of Slavery Provost Symposium D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y M A R C H H O L S T I - A N D E R S O N F A M I L Y A S S E M B L Y R O O M ( R U B E N S T E I N L I B R A R Y R O O M ) SCHEDULE OF EVENTS F R I D A Y, M A R C H 3 0 9:00 a.m. I N T R O D U C T I O N S Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway Librarian, Vice Provost for Library Affairs and Adjunct Associate Professor of History, Duke O P E N I N G R E M A R K S Vincent E. Price, President of Duke and Walter Hines Page Professor of Public Policy and Political Science I N T R O D U C T I O N O F S P E A K E R Sally Kornbluth, Provost and Jo Rae Wright Professor K E Y N O T E What Nineteenth-Century European Travelers Saw in the Time of Trump Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor Emerita of American History, Princeton 10:15 a.m. B R E A K 10:30 a.m. A M E R I C A N U N I V E R S I T I E S : R E C K O N I N G W I T H T H E P A S T, P A R T 1 Moderator: William H. Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor Emeritus of History, Duke 1

2 Kirt von Daacke, Professor and Assistant Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, of Virginia Leslie M. Harris, Professor of History, Northwestern Adam Rothman, Professor of History, Georgetown Deborah Gray White, Board of Governors Professor of History, Rutgers 12:00 p.m. LUNCH 12:00 p.m. G R A D U A T E S T U D E N T S E M I N A R Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation (Jean Hébrard, with Rebecca J. Scott (Harvard Press, 2012)) 2012 Alfred J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association 2012 James A. Rawley Prize, American Historical Association Led by Jean Hébrard, Visiting Professor of History, Johns Hopkins and Co-director of the Centre de Recherches sur le Brésil contemporain, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociale (Paris) 1:15 p.m. A M E R I C A N U N I V E R S I T I E S : R E C K O N I N G W I T H T H E P A S T, P A R T 2 Moderator: Sarah Deutsch, Professor of History, Duke Jan Blodgett, Davidson College Commission on Race & Slavery Valerie Gillispie, Archivist, Rubenstein Library, Duke Stephen O Neil, Professor of History, Furman Task Force on Slavery and Justice Melinda Wiggins, Executive Director, Student Action with Farmworkers, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke 2:15 p.m. B R E A K 2:30 p.m. L E G A C I E S O F S L A V E R Y : M O N U M E N T S A N D M O N U M E N T A L H I S T O R I E S Moderator: Deborah R. Gerhardt, Associate Professor of Law, of North Carolina School of Law 2

3 Paul B. Jaskot, Professor of Art History, Duke Kirk Savage, William S. Dietrich II Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, of Pittsburgh William Sturkey, Assistant Professor of History, of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3:45 p.m. M O N U M E N T S A N D COU N T E R M O NUM E N T S Moderator: Guy-Uriel Charles, Edward and Ellen Marie Schwarzman Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Research, Duke Law School Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Professor of History, Johns Hopkins Darrell A.H. Miller, Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law, Duke Law School Neil S. Siegel, David W. Ichel Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of the Program in Public Law, and Director of the DC Summer Institute on Law and Policy, Duke Law School Norman W. Spaulding, Nelson Bowman Sweitzer & Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law, Stanford Law School 5:15 p.m. R E C E P T I O N A N D B O O K S I G N I N G S A T U R D A Y, M A R C H 3 1 9:00 a.m. W E L C O M E Valerie S. Ashby, Dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Chemistry, Duke I N T R O D U C T I O N O F S P E A K E R Abbas Benmamoun, Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement and Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Linguistics, Duke 3

4 K E Y N O T E Extending the Domain of Freedom: The Black Professional Class, Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History Emerita, Northwestern and John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of History, Michigan State 10:15 a.m. S L A V E R Y A N D I T S L E G A C I E S : E D U C A T I O N, L A B O R, A N D T H E S O U T H E R N E C O N O M Y Moderator: Seth Sanders, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Duke Lisa Cook, Associate Professor of Economics and International Relations, Michigan State Robert A. Margo, Professor of Economics, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Boston Heather Williams, Presidential Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, of Pennsylvania Gavin Wright, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History, Emeritus, Stanford 11:45 L U N C H C O N V E R S A T I O N T R I N I T Y C O L L E G E O F A R T S & S C I E N C E S : S T U D E N T V O I C E S, P A S T A N D P R E S E N T Moderator: Paula D. McClain, Dean of The Graduate School, Vice Provost for Graduate Education, and Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Elizabeth Barahona, T 18 Cynthia Griggs Fleming, Professor of History Emerita, of Tennessee, G 77 Colonel Kimberley K. L. Greene, U.S. Air Force, Retired, T 87 Lorin Peri Palmer, T 78 (This lunchtime session is open to all attendees with lunch served.) 4

5 1:00 p.m. RACECRAFT, RACISM, AND INEQUALITY IN CONVERSATION Barbara J. Fields, Professor of History, Columbia and Karen E. Fields, Sociologist and Independent Scholar Authors of R A C E C R A F T : THE SOUL OF INEQUALITY IN AMERICAN LIFE Moderator: Laurent Dubois, Professor of Romance Studies and History; Founder and Faculty Director of the Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke 2:00 p.m. W H I T E S U P R E M A C Y, M E M O R Y, A N D R E C O N S T R U C T I O N Moderator: Carlton E. Wilson, Interim Provost, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Professor of History, North Carolina Central W. Fitzhugh Brundage, William B. Umstead Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of History, of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adam Domby, Assistant Professor of History, College of Charleston John Eason, Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas A & M H. Jefferson Powell, Professor of Law, Duke Law School 3:15 p.m. B R E A K 3:30 p.m. T H E A R C O F J U S T I C E : W H A T U N I V E R S I T I E S O U G H T T O D O A B O U T R E P A R A T I O N S Moderator: Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African & African American Studies and English, and Chair of the Department of African & African American Studies, Duke Ana Lucia Araujo, Professor of History, Howard, William Darity, Samuel Dubois Cook Professor of Public Policy, Economics 5

6 and African & African American Studies and Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, Duke Kirsten Mullen, Independent scholar and founding president of Artefactual. 4:30 pm C L O S I N G P L E N A R Y M O N U M E N T S, M E M O R Y, A N D S O U T H E R N H I S T O R Y I N T R O D U C T I O N O F S P E A K E R Linda Burton, James B. Duke Professor of Sociology and Public Policy and Director of the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke Speaker: David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History, and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale Followed by a conversation with Laura Edwards, Peabody Family Professor of History, Duke and Thavolia Glymph, Professor of History and African & African American Studies and John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History, Duke Moderator: Laurent Dubois, Professor of Romance Studies and History, Founder and Faculty Director of the Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke R E C E P T I O N A N D B O O K S I G N I N G 6

7 This symposium is sponsored by the Office of the Provost at Duke Co-Sponsors: Center for Child and Family Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy Department of African & African American Studies Department of Economics Duke Graduate School Department of History Duke Law School Duke Libraries Forum for Scholars and Publics John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Working Group on Slavery, Gender, & War Special Thanks For administrative support: Connie Blackmore, Staff Assistant For production support: Eliza Bourque Dandridge, PhD, Digital Media & Communications, Forum for Scholars and Publics Hallie Knuffman, Chief of Staff, Office of the Provost For administrative assistance: Jacqueline Allain, PhD student, Department of History Sarah Amundson, PhD student, Department of History Susan F. Booth, Program Coordinator, Office of the Provost Patty Chase, Administrative Assistant, Office for Faculty Advancement Tyra Dixon, Staff Assistant, Department of African & African American Studies Jamie Hardy, Staff Assistant, Department of History Alisha Hines, PhD student, Department of History Cynthia Hoglen, Business Manager, Department of History Carla Ivey, Staff Assistant and Assistant to the Chair, Department of History Kristina Williams, PhD student, Department of History 7