Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Joint Lecture

Date: 

Monday, February 22, 2016, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Ames Moot Courtroom

“Reparatory Justice for Global Black Enslavement: The Greatest Political Movement of the 21st Century”

Speaker:

Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indes; Chairman, Caribbean Community [CARICOM] Commission on Reparation and Social Justice.

Co-sponsored by the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, and the Program on the Study of Capitalism, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

Introduction and Comments:

Sven Beckert, Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University.

Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Annette Gordon-Reed, Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study; Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Harvard Law School; Professor of History, Harvard University. 

Kenneth Mack, Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.

Bio:

Sir Hilary Beckles has been at the forefront of an international legal effort for reparations from European slave-trading nations. He is a prolific scholar, a committed activist for social justice, and among the most distinguished public intellectuals in the Caribbean.