| October 15, 2006 |
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| 7:00-9:00 p.m. Slosberg Recital Hall |
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Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs,
Brandeis University |
| Welcome |
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| What Is Slavery's Religious and Sexual Legacy? |
| Bernadette J. Brooten, Brandeis University |
| Opening Address |
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| Adrienne Davis, University of North Carolina School of Law |
| Miscegenation and Morality: The Contemporary Politics and Racial Meanings of Marriage |
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| Nancy Rawles, award-winning novelist |
| Two Sermons |
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| Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern University School of Law |
| The Paradox of Silence and Display: Sexual Violation of Enslaved Women and Contemporary Contradictions in Black Female Sexuality |
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| Performance: RootsUprising, Dance Troupe |
| Dancing Beloved |
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| 9:00-10:00 p.m. Foyer, Slosberg Music Center |
| Reception |
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| October 16, 2006 |
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| 9:00-9:10 a.m. Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center |
| Adam Jaffe, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University |
| Welcome |
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| 9:10-10:00 a.m. Rooms in Hassenfeld Conference Center |
| Small-Group Sessions: Choose one for a greater opportunity for in-depth discussion |
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| Sheila Briggs, University of Southern California |
| Gender, Slavery, and Technology: The Shaping of the Early Christian Moral Imagination |
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| Fay Botham, Le Moyne College |
| Anti-Miscegenation Statutes: Roman Catholic and Protestant Theologies of Marriage and Race |
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| James J. Callahan, Brandeis University, Heller School |
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For Social Workers: Using the NASW Code of Ethics to Think about Slavery's Legacy |
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| Linda McClain, Hofstra University Law School |
| Abstinence-Plus Sex Education: The Best Model for Free Citizens |
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| 10:10-11:00 a.m. Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center |
| How Has Slavery Shaped Our Understandings of Marriage and Friendship? |
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| Moderator: Susan Lanser, Brandeis University |
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| Gail Labovitz, University of Judaism |
| The Purchase of His Money: Slavery and the Ethics of Jewish Marriage |
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| Kecia Ali, Boston University |
| Slavery and Sexual Ethics in Islam |
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| Barbara Savage, University of Pennsylvania |
| The Same-Sex Marriage Debate in the African American Churches: An Historical Perspective |
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| Frances Smith Foster, Emory Univerisity |
| Call Me “Mrs.”: Motherhood, Marriage, and (Sexual) Morality in Nineteenth-Century African America |
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| 11:00-11:10 a.m. |
| Break |
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| 11:10 a.m.-Noon, Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center |
| Sexual Assault and Exploitation under Slavery and Jim Crow |
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| Moderator: Jacqueline Jones, Brandeis University |
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| Catherine Clinton, Queen's University, Belfast |
| Breaking the Silence: Sexual Hypocrisies from Thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond |
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| Mia Bay, Rutgers University |
| In Search of Sally Hemings: Slavery and Sexual Agency in the History of the United States |
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| Wilma King, University of Missouri |
| "He said he would give us some flowers": Sexual Violations, Girls, and the Law in the Antebellum South |
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| Lisa Cardyn, Yale University |
| Practices of Sexual Terrorism in the Reconstruction South |
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| Noon-1:00 p.m., Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center |
| Lunch |
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| 1:00-1:10 p.m., Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center |
| Performance: Katani, vocalist and featured soloist, Boston Pops Gospel Choir |
| Lullabies sung by enslaved girls and women in the United States |
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| 1:10-2:00 PM, Rooms in Hassenfeld Conference Center |
| Small-Group Sessions: Choose one for a greater opportunity for in-depth discussion |
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| David Wright, Brandeis University |
| "She shall not go free as male slaves do": The Female Debt-Slave in the Hebrew Bible |
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| Debra Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| "As if she were his wife": Slavery and Sexual Ethics in Late Medieval Spain |
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| Mark Auslander, Jonathan Sarna and Ibrahim Sundiata, Brandeis University |
| Black-Jewish Relations on the Issue of Slavery |
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| Gloria White-Hammond and Melinda Weekes |
| My Sister's Keeper: Women-Led Humanitarian Action |
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| 2:00-2:10 p.m. |
| Break |
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| 2:10-3:00 p.m. Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center |
| Christianity: Religion of the Slaveholders and the Enslaved |
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| Moderator: Deborah L. Johnson, Inner Light Ministries |
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| Jennifer Glancy, Le Moyne College |
| Habits of Slavery in Early Christianity |
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| Dwight Hopkins, University of Chicago |
| Slavery, Black Women, and Sexual Justice: A Theological Perspective |
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| Sylvester Johnson, Indiana University |
| Biblical Debates over Slavery |
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| 3:00-3:10 p.m. Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center |
| Florence Ladd, award-winning novelist and poet |
| Original poetry |
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| 3:10-4:00 p.m. Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center |
| A Formerly Enslaved Woman Responds to the History of Slavery and to Religious Teachings on It |
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| Moderator: Florence Ladd, award-winning novelist and poet |
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| Mende Nazer,
Antislavery activist formerly enslaved in the Sudan |
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| 4:00-4:30 p.m. |
| Break |
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| 4:30-5:30 PM Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center |
| Beyond Slavery: Creating the Conditions for Meaningful Consent to Sexual Intimacy |
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| Moderator: Anita Hill, Brandeis University |
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| Adrienne Davis, University of North Carolina School of Law |
| Reparations for Slavery |
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| Emilie Townes, Yale Divinity School |
| From Mammy to Welfare Queen: Images of Black Women in Public Policy Formation |
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| Ellen Barry, prison rights activist |
| African American Women in United States Prisons: The Modern State-Sanctioned Slavery System |
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| Bernadette J. Brooten, Brandeis University |
| Sexual Ethics Untainted by Slaveholding Values |
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