Upcoming Event: Restorative Justice & Societal Repair
Please join us on February 21 for this symposium, “Restorative Justice and Societal Repair: Global Racism and Reparations,” which invites academics, students, community activists, cultural artists, theorists, philosophers, and others interested in the ongoing problem of global racism and injustice and the debate over reparations/repair and redress for enslavement, genocide, and colonization of African-descended people. The overall aim is to provide a forum for exchange which might lead to specific outcomes that elaborate recommendations for restitution for past harms, cognitive justice, repair, and transformation of the global community in this UN Decade of African-Descended People.
Speakers:
Keynote: Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, President of CARICOM (organization of the Caribbean Community & Common Market)
Dr. Paula Austin, Asst. Professor of History African American Studies Boston Univ.
Dr. Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Associate Professor of Music, Musicology & Ethnomusicology, Boston University
Dr. David Chard, Dean ad interim, Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, Boston University
Dr. Nicola Frith, University of Edinburgh (Scotland/UK), Co-Founder/Co-Director of the International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR)
Dr. Linda Heywood, Professor of History and African American Studies, Boston University
Dr. Jemadari Kamara, Professor of Africana Studies and Chair of the Centre for African, Caribbean, and Community Development (CACCD) Umass/Boston.
Ms. Meredith McDuffie, Undergraduate Student, Boston University (CAS ‘20)
Ms. Yvette Modestin, Poet/Activist and Founder/Executive Director of Encuentro Diaspora Afro in Boston
Dr. Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Boston University School of Law Dean, Professor of Law
Ms. Sophia Parnell, MA Student, Boston University
Dr. Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Research Associate and Lecturer, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University & Associate of Africans in Boston
Dr. Joyce Hope Scott, Clinical Professor of African American Studies, Boston University
Ms. Esther Stanford-Xosei, Juris consult and Vice Chair of the Pan-African Reparations Coalition in Europe (PARCOE)
Dr. John Thornton, Professor African American Studies, Boston University
Sponsored by the African American Studies Program, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, the African Studies Center, the BU Center for the Humanities, and Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies.