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29. March 2021 / 18:00 - 20:00
On the Possibility and Impossibility of Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism: Reparations within and beyond the Law
On June 7th 2020, a group of Black demonstrators scaled a statue of King Leopold II in Brussels, Belgium and brandished the flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; chanting one word repeatedly: âReparationsâ. Such demands for reparations for slavery and colonialism are occurring across multiple scales and locales, in various forms, and have intensified in the context of the global movement for Black Lives. An increasing number of institutions, NGOâs and even states are responding to reparations demands: sometimes by acknowledging their moral legitimacy, rarely by addressing their material merits.
This webinar series investigates the significance of a global turn towards demands for reparatory justice for slavery and colonialism, and probes the terms upon which reparations would be capable of both enacting repair and accounting for social inequality in capitalist, white supremacist, and settler colonial contexts. Acknowledging the global implications of racialized forms of oppression, the series prioritizes an international framing of the question of reparatory justice and asks us to ponder the possibilities and the impossibilities of reparations for slavery and colonialism: What is the relationship between reparatory justice and the possibility of the abolition of the carceral state? What could material reparations for histories of colonialism and enslavement look like, how might they be adjudicated and administered? What is the relationship between claims for reparation, studies of repair, and liberal progressive state logics?
Click here to register. Please note that your registration will sign you up for all of the webinars in the series. If you have any questions about this event, please email opircolumbia2020[at]gmail.com
Monday March 29th; 1-3pm EDT: Reparations within and beyond the Law
Yukiko Koga (Yale University )âPost-imperial Reckoning: The Unmaking of Empire and
Transitional Injustice in East Asiaâ
Howard Rechavia-Taylor (Columbia University) âRefusing Reparations between Germany
and Namibia and the Creation of a Bilateral Eventâ
OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ (Georgetown) âReparations and Climate Justice?â
Anna Schirrer (Columbia University) âReparative Reason: Multiple Epistemologies of
Redressâ
Discussant: Aparna Gopalan (Harvard)
- This event has passed.
29. March 2021 / 18:00 - 20:00
On June 7th 2020, a group of Black demonstrators scaled a statue of King Leopold II in Brussels, Belgium and brandished the flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; chanting one word repeatedly: âReparationsâ. Such demands for reparations for slavery and colonialism are occurring across multiple scales and locales, in various forms, and have intensified in the context of the global movement for Black Lives. An increasing number of institutions, NGOâs and even states are responding to reparations demands: sometimes by acknowledging their moral legitimacy, rarely by addressing their material merits.
This webinar series investigates the significance of a global turn towards demands for reparatory justice for slavery and colonialism, and probes the terms upon which reparations would be capable of both enacting repair and accounting for social inequality in capitalist, white supremacist, and settler colonial contexts. Acknowledging the global implications of racialized forms of oppression, the series prioritizes an international framing of the question of reparatory justice and asks us to ponder the possibilities and the impossibilities of reparations for slavery and colonialism: What is the relationship between reparatory justice and the possibility of the abolition of the carceral state? What could material reparations for histories of colonialism and enslavement look like, how might they be adjudicated and administered? What is the relationship between claims for reparation, studies of repair, and liberal progressive state logics?
Click here to register. Please note that your registration will sign you up for all of the webinars in the series. If you have any questions about this event, please email opircolumbia2020[at]gmail.com
Monday March 29th; 1-3pm EDT: Reparations within and beyond the Law
Yukiko Koga (Yale University )âPost-imperial Reckoning: The Unmaking of Empire and
Transitional Injustice in East Asiaâ
Howard Rechavia-Taylor (Columbia University) âRefusing Reparations between Germany
and Namibia and the Creation of a Bilateral Eventâ
OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ (Georgetown) âReparations and Climate Justice?â
Anna Schirrer (Columbia University) âReparative Reason: Multiple Epistemologies of
Redressâ
Discussant: Aparna Gopalan (Harvard)
