Catch up on December 2021's JHU "Conversations on Slavery, Racism, and the University."
Featuring experts from JHU and special guests, you can now tune in on-demand!
Among our commitments over at Hard Histories is to be part of in public discussions about our work and what it means for the university community, the city of Baltimore and more. In the past, we’ve been part of discussions at places such as JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies, the JHU University Reunion & Homecoming, and Rice University’s Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice.
Just this past December, Hard Histories was pleased to join with colleagues from the JHU History Department, the Department of the History of Medicine, and Inheritance Baltimore, along with special guests, for a discussion about new work that revelations about founder Johns Hopkins’ connections to slavery have inspired.
Highlights from the afternoon included Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson on “No Exceptions: Terror, Violence, and Black Views of Bondage,” Dr. Sasha Turner on “Reckoning with Abolition: Identity, Memory, and the Invention of Tradition,” and Dr. Nathan Connolly on “‘The Propaganda of History’: W.E.B. Du Bois Returns to Johns Hopkins, Sort of.” Also featured were Dr. Jeremy Greene and Dr. Ezelle Sanford from the Department of the History of Medicine on medical racism.
My conversation with Dean Erin Rowe, from the Krieger School of Arts and Science, centred on the work of the Hard Histories Lab and how student researchers are becoming stewards of JHU’s past and present.
Tune in when you can, and in the meantime check out the news coverage in these overviews from Saralyn Cruickshank at JHU’s Hub, and from Jonathan Pitts at the Baltimore Sun.
Thanks to Allison Seyler and Hopkins Retrospective and Dean Chris Celenza of the Krieger School for hosting these important discussions.
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