#   Warren Center/WIGH Seminar: Sir Hilary Beckles, “Reparatory Justice for Global Black Enslavement: The Greatest Political Movement of the 21st Century” 

 



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 **February 22, 2016** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **Ames Moot Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, 1515 Massachusetts Ave**  



 

 



 

Topic: “Reparatory Justice for Global Black Enslavement: The Greatest Political Movement of the 21st Century”  
Speaker: [Sir Hilary Beckles](http://sta.uwi.edu/igds/20thanniversary/conference/SirHilaryBeckles.asp), Vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indes; Chairman of the Caribbean Community\[CARICOM\] Commission on Reparation and Social Justice.  
  
Introduction and Comments:  
**Sven Beckert**, 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

Sir Hilary Beckles has been at the forefront of an[ international legal effort for reparations](http://www.thenation.com/article/will-caribbean-reparations-initiative-inspire-revitalization-us-movement/) 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.

Location:  
Ames Moot Courtroom, Austin Hall  
1515 Massachusetts Ave  
Harvard Law School

*Free and open to the public.*

Presented jointly by:  
[Charles Warren Center for Studies in American Histor](http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/)y  
[Weatherhead Initiative on Global History](http://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/)  
[Program on the Study of Capitalism](http://studyofcapitalism.harvard.edu/)



 

 



 

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