Special Event: A Conference Marking International Roma Day

Date: 

Friday, April 8, 2016, 9:30am to 5:30pm

Location: 

Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Thompson Room (110)

"Responses to State-Sponsored Collective Injustice"

Keynote Speaker:

Alondra Nelson, Professor, Department of Sociology; Dean of Social Sciences, Columbia University; Author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome.

The Responses to State Sponsored Collective Injustice conference will consider responses to devastating collective injustice around the world, using the Roma case as a focal point for more general inquiry and discussion. More broadly, the conference will discuss the range of responses of governments to past and present state-sponsored wrongs against minority and marginalized groups from across the globe. The event will bring together world leading activists and scholars to explore the issue of state sponsored violence and collective injustices comparatively – across historic and geographic regions as well as across academic disciplines.

Registration is required. Please visit the conference website to register.

Co-sponsored by Harvard FXB; Berklee College of Music; Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Seminar on History and Policy, and the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Center for African Studies, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Committee on Ethnicity, Migration and Rights, Donald T. Regan Lecture Fund, and Native American Program, Harvard University.

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