Conference Schedule



Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its
Religious and Sexual Legacy


October 15–16, 2006

Brandeis University


October 15, 2006

7:00–9:00 P.M. Slosberg Recital Hall
Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Brandeis University
Welcome

What Is Slavery's Religious and Sexual Legacy?
Bernadette J. Brooten, Brandeis University
Opening Address: What is Slavery's Religious and Sexual Legacy?

Adrienne Davis, University of North Carolina School of Law
Miscegenation and Morality: The Contemporary Politics and Racial Meanings of Marriage

Nancy Rawles, Award-winning novelist
Prayer for my daughter

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

Performance: Roots Uprising, Dance Troupe
Dancing Beloved

9:00–10:00 P.M. Foyer, Slosberg Music Center
Reception

October 16, 2006

9:00–9:10 a.m. Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center
Adam Jaffe, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University
Welcome

9:10–10:00 a.m. Rooms in Hassenfeld Conference Center
Small-Group Sessions: Choose one for a greater opportunity for in-depth discussion

Sheila Briggs, University of Southern California
Gender, Slavery, and Technology: The Shaping of the Early Christian Moral Imagination

Fay Botham, Le Moyne College
Anti-Miscegenation Statutes: Roman Catholic and Protestant Theologies of Marriage and Race

James J. Callahan, Brandeis University, Heller School
For Social Workers: Using the NASW Code of Ethics to Think about Slavery's Legacy

Linda McClain, Hofstra University Law School
Abstinence-Plus Sex Education: The Best Model for Free Citizens

10:10–11:00 a.m. Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center
How Has Slavery Shaped Our Understandings of Marriage and Friendship?

Moderator: Susan Lanser, Brandeis University

Gail Labovitz, University of Judaism
The Purchase of His Money: Slavery and the Ethics of Jewish Marriage

Kecia Ali, Boston University
Slavery and Sexual Ethics in Islam

Barbara Savage, University of Pennsylvania
The Same-Sex Marriage Debate in the African American Churches: An Historical Perspective

Frances Smith Foster, Emory Univerisity
Call Me “Mrs.”: Motherhood, Marriage, and (Sexual) Morality in Nineteenth-Century African America

11:00–11:10 a.m.
Break

11:10 a.m.–Noon, Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center
Sexual Assault and Exploitation under Slavery and Jim Crow

Moderator: Jacqueline Jones, Brandeis University

Catherine Clinton, Queen's University, Belfast
Breaking the Silence: Sexual Hypocrisies from Thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond

Mia Bay, Rutgers University
In Search of Sally Hemings: Slavery and Sexual Agency in the History of the United States

Wilma King, University of Missouri
"He said he would give us some flowers": Sexual Violations, Girls, and the Law in the Antebellum South

Lisa Cardyn, Yale University
Practices of Sexual Terrorism in the Reconstruction South

Noon–1:00 P.M., Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center
Lunch

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

1:10–2:00 PM, Rooms in Hassenfeld Conference Center

Small-Group Sessions: Choose one for a greater opportunity for in-depth discussion

David Wright, Brandeis University
"She shall not go free as male slaves do": The Female Debt-Slave in the Hebrew Bible

Debra Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara
"As if she were his wife": Slavery and Sexual Ethics in Late Medieval Spain

Mark Auslander, Jonathan Sarna and Ibrahim Sundiata, Brandeis University
Black-Jewish Relations on the Issue of Slavery

Gloria White-Hammond and Melinda Weekes
My Sister's Keeper: Women-Led Humanitarian Action

2:00–2:10 P.M.
Break

2:10–3:00 P.M. Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center
Christianity: Religion of the Slaveholders and the Enslaved

Moderator: Deborah L. Johnson, Inner Light Ministries

Jennifer Glancy, Le Moyne College
Habits of Slavery in Early Christianity

Dwight Hopkins, University of Chicago
Slavery, Black Women, and Sexual Justice: A Theological Perspective

Sylvester Johnson, Indiana University
Biblical Debates Over Slavery

3:00–3:10 P.M. Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center
Florence Ladd, Award-winning novelist and poet
Original poetry

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

Moderator: Florence Ladd, Award-winning novelist and poet

Mende Nazer, Antislavery activist formerly enslaved in the Sudan

4:00–4:30 P.M.
Break

4:30–5:30 PM Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center
Beyond Slavery: Creating the Conditions for Meaningful Consent to Sexual Intimacy

Moderator: Anita Hill, Brandeis University

Adrienne Davis, University of North Carolina School of Law
Reparations for Slavery

Emilie Townes, Yale Divinity School
From Mammy to Welfare Queen: Images of Black Women in Public Policy Formation

Ellen Barry, Prison rights activist
African American Women in United States Prisons: The Modern State-Sanctioned Slavery System

Bernadette J. Brooten, Brandeis University
Sexual Ethics Untainted by Slaveholding Values