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

For Immediate Release
September 28, 2011

Media Contact:
Kara Tershel

(202) 662-9037

MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT:

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

 

Anita Hill

 

WHEN:

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

 

WHERE:

Georgetown University Law Center
Gewirz Student Center - 12th Floor

120 F Street, 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)

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

 

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.

Media interested in attending should email mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.

If you are not a member of the news media and would like to attend, please complete the registration form.