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Welcome | 9:30am
Homi Bhabha
Director, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Jennifer Leaning
Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
Opening Remarks | 9:45am
Chair
Arian Fuller
Harvard FXB Center
Marking International Roma Day: Roma in the Global Context
Margareta Matache
Roma Rights Defender and Instructor, Harvard FXB Center
Keynote Speech
Alondra Nelson
Professor and Author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome, Columbia University
Panel One: Addressing the Legacy of Injustice | 10:45am
Chair
Callie Crossley
Journalist, WGBH
Discussant
Walter Johnson
Winthrop Professor of History and Winthrop Professor of African and Africa American Studies, Harvard University
Presenters
Tiya Miles
Professor, University of Michigan
Marian Mandache
Executive Director
Roma Center for Social Intervention and Studies, Romani CRISS
Bert Samuels
Member of the National Commission on Reparations, Jamaica
Lunch Break | 12:15pm
Panel Two: Addressing the Continuum of Injustice | 1:15pm
Chair
Jacqueline Bhabha
Director of Research, Harvard FXB Center
Discussant
Angela Kocze
Lecturer and Visiting Professor, Wake Forest University
Presenters
Ian Hancock
Director, Program of Romani Studies, University of Texas
Tomasso Vitale
Associate Professor, Sciences Po, France
Dennis Norman
Faculty Chair, Harvard University Native American Program
Irma A. Velásquez
Social anthropologist, Guatemala
Coffee Break | 3:00pm
Panel Three: Building a Culture of Peace and Social Justice | 3:30pm
Chair
Jennifer Leaning
Director, Harvard FXB Center
Presenters
Petra Gelbart
Head of Romania Initiative, New York University
Xolela Mangcu
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town
Caroline Elkins
Director of the Center for African Studies, Harvard University
Douglas Johnson
Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Closing Session | 5:00pm
Chair
María Luisa Parra
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Presenters
Jacqueline Bhabha
Walter Johnson
Irma Velásquez
Ian Hancock
Multicultural Concert - Berklee College of Music | 8:00pm
The FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and Mahindra Humanities Center hosts the Fourth Annual Roma Conference, “Responses to State Sponsored Violence and Collective Injustice,” at Harvard University to mark International Roma Day.
The conference is cosponsored by the Berklee College of Music and the following departments and centers at Harvard University: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; Center for African Studies; Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights; David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Donald T. Regan Lecture Fund; Harvard University Native American Program; Harvard Seminar on History and Policy; Hutchins Center for African & African American Research; Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy; Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Free and open to the public. RSVP required. Seating is limited.