Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Joint Lecture
Date and Time
Location
“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.