Telling the Truth about All This: Reckoning with Slavery and Its Legacies at Harvard and Beyond

Welcome

• Tomiko Brown-Nagin RI ’17, dean, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and chair, Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery

    
Remarks from Lawrence S. Bacow, president, Harvard University

Poetry Reading       

• Introduction: Suzannah Omonuk, master’s candidate, Harvard Divinity School
• Tracy K. Smith, Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and professor of English and of African and African American studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

      
Panel 1: Universities and Their Role in Repair of Legacies of Slavery

• Introduction: Shandra M. Jones, PhD student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, Program in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Jody Lynn Allen, assistant professor of history and Robert Francis Engs Director of The Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation, College of William & Mary
• Adam Harris, staff writer, the Atlantic, and author, The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal (Ecco, 2021)
• Kemeyawi Q. Wahpepah, PhD student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, Program in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Moderator: Nancy F. Koehn, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School 

Morning Keynote

• Introduction: Alan M. Garber, provost, Harvard University; Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; professor of economics, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; and professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Ruth J. Simmons, president, Prairie View A&M University; president emerita, Brown University; president emerita, Smith College
• Discussant: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University

Welcome Back

• Kyera Singleton, executive director, Royall House and Slave Quarters

    
Panel 2: Sites of Memory and Repositories of Knowledge

• Introduction: Annette Gordon-Reed RI ’12, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard University
• Ana Lucia Araujo, professor of history, Howard University
• Julia Rose, historic house manager at Marietta House Museum, Prince George's Parks and Recreation
• Kevin Young, Andrew W. Mellon Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Moderator: Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and professor of African and African American studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Panel 3: Innovative Approaches to Public Engagement with History

• Introduction: Tiya Miles RI ’22, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and Michael Garvey Professor of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Andrew M. Davenport, director of the Getting Word Oral History Project, International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, and graduate student in American history, Georgetown University
• Dom Flemons, cofounder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops; singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music scholar
• Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, professor in the Department of English, Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma, and author, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Harper, 2021) and The Age of Phillis (Wesleyan University Press, 2020)
• Moderator: Meira Levinson RI ’03, Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Roundtable Discussion: Global Perspectives

• Introduction: Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• S. James Anaya, University Distinguished Professor and Nicholas Doman Professor of International Law, University of Colorado Law School
• Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela RI ’21, South African National Research Foundation Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma and the Research Chair in Historical Trauma and Transformation, Stellenbosch University
• Simon P. Newman, Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History, Emeritus, and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, University of Glasgow; coauthor, Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow; and Honorary Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Densil A. Williams, pro vice-chancellor and principal, Five Islands Campus, University of the West Indies
• Moderator: Martha Minow RI ’18, Three Hundredth Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University