Redress in Social Thought, Law, and Literature
Jan 7–Jun 9, 2003
UC Irvine
Part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar series.
A nine-session seminar addressing topics related to reparations and regress for racial, religious, ethnic, national, and political groups that have suffered wrongs as a result of discrimination and political programs such as “ethnic cleansing.”
January 13, 2003: Memory and Debt with W. James Booth, Vanderbilt University; Walter Johnson, NYU; Elizabeth Povinelli, U. Chicago; Etienne Balibar, UC Irvine; Elazar Barkan, Claremont Graduate School; Herman Bennett, Rutgers University; Haunani-Kay Trask, University of Hawai’i; Adjoa Aiyetoro, N’COBRA; and Jeanne Woods, Loyola Law School, New Orleans.
February 24: Unthinking Prisons with Ruthie Gilmore, UC Berkeley; Gloria House, Wayne State University; and Dorsey Nunn, Prisoners with Children
March 10: Rewriting History, Social Change, and Justice with Nancy Fraser, New School University; Catherine Gallagher, UC Berkeley; and Cedric Robinson, UC Santa Barbara.
April 14: Remnants of History with Neta Crawford, Brown University; Brent Edwards, Rutgers University; and Achille Mbembe, University of Witwatersrand.
April 28: The Wake of War
May 12: Counter-Histories
May 19: The Alienation of Cultural Property
Organized by David Theo Goldberg, Stephen Best and Saidya Hartman of UC Berkeley, and Cheryl Harris of UCLA, with assistance from UCHRI Research Associate Kim Benita Furumoto.
