Conference Schedule

All presentations take place in 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton University.

Thursday, June 6, 2019

8:30am—9:30am | Coffee & Continental Breakfast

 

9:30am—9:45am | Opening Remarks

Keith Wailoo | Chair, Department of History

Angela Creager | Director, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies

 

9:45am—10:30am | Law & Difference Opening Keynote

“Getting Rid of Exceptionality Narratives: Why Understanding the History of Structural Racism in Reproductive Medicine Matters”

Deirdre Cooper Owens (Queens College)

 

10:30am—12:00pm | Session I—Historiograph(ies):
Reassessing Histories of Racism, Law, Medicine, and Their Structures

  • Eric Herschthal (Ohio State University)
  • Wangui Muigai (Brandeis University)
  • Giuliana Perrone (University of California—Santa Barbara)
  • Sharla Fett (Occidental College)

Discussant: Keith Wailoo (Princeton University)

 

12:00pm—1:00pm | Lunch

 

1:00pm—2:30pm | Session II—Spatialit(ies):
Accounting for Geographies of Health and Sites of Care

  • Maria K. John (University of Massachusetts—Boston)
  • Carla Yanni (Rutgers University)
  • Rhonda Y. Williams (Vanderbilt University)

Discussant: Khiara M. Bridges (Boston University)

 

2:30pm—3:00pm | Coffee & Tea

 

3:00pm—4:45pm | Session III—Legalit(ies) and Communit(ies):
Navigating Law, Social Movements, and Difference

  • George Aumoithe (Princeton University)
  • Elizabeth Nelson (Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis)
  • Kimani Paul-Emile (Fordham University)
  • Aziza Ahmed (Northeastern University)

Discussant: Leslie E. Gerwin (Princeton University)

 

6:30pm | Panelists’ Dinner

Mediterra Restaurant & Bar

29 Hulfish St., Princeton, NJ 08542-3201

 

Friday, June 7, 2019 

9:00—10:00am | Coffee & Continental Breakfast

 

10:00am—11:30am | Session IV—Methodolog(ies):
Making Sense of Structural Racism through Critical Historical Approaches on Medical Treatment & Social Science

  • Ezelle Sanford III (Princeton University)
  • Tala Khanmalek (Princeton University)
  • Kwame Holmes (Bard College)
  • Graham Mooney (Johns Hopkins University)

Discussant: Lundy Braun (Brown University)

 

11:30am—12:15pm | Law & Difference Closing Keynote

“Dehumanization, White Supremacy, and Public Health Law: Three Reasons Why America’s Past Is Not Even Past”

Dayna Bowen Matthew (University of Virginia School of Law)

 

12:15pm—12:30pm | Closing Remarks

George Aumoithe (Princeton University)

 

12:30pm—2:30pm | Panelists’ Working Lunch: Planning Future Steps for an Edited Volume

This session is closed to the public.