Context and Consequences: The Hill-Thomas Hearings Twenty Years Later

WHAT:  Context and Consequences: 

The Hill-Thomas Hearings Twenty Years Later

 

WHEN:

Thursday, October 6, 2011, 9:00 a.m - 5:30 p.m.

WHERE:

Georgetown University Law Center
Hart Auditorium - McDonough Hall

600 New Jersey Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C.  20001

SCHEDULE:

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

William Treanor, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

Emma Coleman Jordan, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Professor, Spelman College

9:30 - 10:30 a.m.

Context: Race and Political Representation

Charles Ogletree, Professor, Harvard Law School (Interviewer)

Carole Simpson, Leader in Residence, Emerson College; former Anchor, ABC News

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Consequences: The Burden of History in a Post-Race Era

Paul Butler, Professor, George Washington University Law School

Angela J. Davis, Professor, American University Washington College of Law

Elvin Wyly, Professor, University of British Columbia

Emma Coleman Jordan, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)

12:00 - 12:45 p.m.

History Repeating? Gender vs. Race in the 2008 Democratic Primary

Mark Anthony Neal, Professor, Duke University

Amy Richards, Co-founder, Soapbox, Inc.

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Professor, Spelman College (Moderator)

2:15 - 3:15 p.m.

Context: Women, Leadership, and the Politics of Gender

Michel Martin, Host, "Tell Me More," NPR (Interviewer)

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), (Invited)

3:30 - 4:45 p.m.

Consequences: 21st Century Women Parity in Public Life and in the Workplace

Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, (D-DC), Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Vicki Schultz, Professor, Yale Law School

Kim Taylor-Thompson, Professor, New York University School of Law (Moderator)

4:45 - 5:00 p.m.

Closing

Anita Hill, Professor, Brandeis University; Of Counsel, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

NOTE:

This conference marks the twentieth anniversary of the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings. 

The participants will discuss issues of race, gender and authority in American society.

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