WHAT

On Tuesday, May 14, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, will visit Georgetown Law for a conversation with Dean William Treanor and the graduating class. Gates, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, and cultural critic, will discuss his new limited series on PBS, Reconstruction: America After the Civil War.

WHO

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University

William M. Treanor
Dean of Georgetown Law

WHEN

Tuesday, May 14, 2019
4:00 pm: Introduction
4:10 pm: Preview of “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War”
4:30 pm: Conversation with Professor Gates moderated by Dean Treanor

WHERE

Hart Auditorium
Georgetown University Law Center
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001

RSVP

Media must RSVP via mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu, seats are limited.

Note: Filming not allowed during preview.