9:15am – 9:30am
OPENING REMARKS

9:30am – 11:00am
• THE MATERIALITY OF SLAVERY: ‘WHAT IS PASSED ON?’
MARISA FUENTES,  Rutgers University, New Brunswick
RASHAUNA JOHNSON,  Dartmouth College
TIYA MILES,  Harvard University
 
11:15am – 12:45pm
• COLUMBIA SLAVERY PROJECT
FRANK GURIDY,  Columbia University
KARL JACOBY,  Columbia University
JORDAN BREWINGTON,  Columbia University Alum
CIARA LILY KEANE,  Columbia University Alum
TOMMY SONG,  Columbia University Alum
 
1:00pm – 2:15pm
**LUNCH BREAK **
 
2:30pm – 4:00pm
• ATTENDING TO THE LEGACIES AND AFTERLIVES OF SLAVERY: AMEND THE 13TH AND REPARATIONS
FLORES FORBES,  Columbia University
KATHERINE FRANKE,  Columbia University
KENDALL THOMAS,  Columbia University
RINALDO WALCOTT,  University of Toronto
 
4:15pm – 6:00pm
• THE MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES
CHARLENE CARRUTHERS,  Chicago Center for Leadership and Transformation
MONICA DENNIS,  Move to End Violence
BARBARA RANSBY,  University of Illinois at Chicago
ANDREA J.  RITCHIE,  Barnard Center for Research on Women
 
6:00pm – 7:15pm
**BREAK**
 
7:15pm – 8:00pm
• POETRY READING 
TONGO EISEN-MARTIN,  California & American Book Awards winner

Friday, September 27, 2019
12:30pm – 2:30pm “LEADERSHIP FOR A LIBERATORY FUTURE” 
LUNCHEON ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH ATLANTIC FELLOWS FOR RACIAL EQUITY

This roundtable will feature Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity and focus on how models of leadership are evolving as organizers, artists, and scholars
think more expansively about liberation for Black people, particularly within the contexts of South Africa and the U.S.

Dr. Sebabatso Monoeli (Moderator), Director of Strategy Programmes
Dylan Valley, Award-winning Documentary Filmmaker and Educator
Cedric Brown, Chief Foundation Officer, Kapor Center
Regina Holloway, Senior Program Manager, the Policing Project at New York University School of Law
 

Event Location:  
Columbia University’s Faculty House
64 Morningside Drive
New York, NY 10027
(Entrance at Wein Gate mid-block on 116street between Amsterdam & Morningside Drive)

The symposium is sponsored by:
African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, Columbia University
Africana Studies Department, Barnard College
Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity
Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University *
Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, Columbia University

* Project funded by the Ford Foundation