#  Seminar: Responses to State Sponsored Collective Injustice 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 8, 2016** 

 09:30AM - 09:30AM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Barker Center, Thompson Room (110), 12 Quincy St.**  



 

 



 

### [See the website](http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/responses-state-sponsored-collective-injustice) for updated information. Schedule below:

### 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.



 

 



 

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