Context and Consequences: The Hill-Thomas Hearings Twenty Years Later
Context and Consequences: The Hill-Thomas Hearings Twenty Years Later
September 28, 2011 — Context and Consequence 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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Time and Location
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 9:00 a.m - 5:30 p.m.; Gewirz Student Center - 12th Floor
120 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Speaker 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)
- Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, (D-DC), Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
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
- 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
