The IAS is pleased to cosponsor this panel discussion, one part of the larger Race, Indigeneity, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (RIGS) Initiative's Reparations, Repatriation, and Redress Symposium, November 1-2, 2019.

For more information about the full slate of symposium events, please click here.

Speakers for the 2pm Universities and Historical Injustices panel include:

Patricia Loew (Professor in the Medill School of Journalism and Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, Northwestern University) “Moving Forward, but Not Beyond: Northwestern University and the Legacy of the Sand Creek Massacre,” Rhondda Robbinson Thomas (Calhoun Lemon Professor of English and African American Literature, Clemson University) “Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History,” Becca Gercken (Horace T. Morse Distinguished Associate Professor of English and Native American and Indigenous Studies, University of Minnesota Morris), Kevin Whalen (Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies and History, University of Minnesota, Morris) “The Heart of Our Mission is a Drum: Curricular Social Justice at the University of Minnesota Morris,” andBalraj Kaur Gill (Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, Harvard University) “Reflections on Harvard and Slavery.”

The discussion will last approximately two hours, followed by a facilitated open discussion in the Humphrey Atrium.

This talk and the larger symposium are free and open to the public. Registration and accommodation requests available here

Cosponsored by the Departments of History, Art, and Art History, and by Reparations, Repatriation and Redress Symposium cosponsors.