The Sawyer Seminar Presents "Racial Justice, Reparations, and the University" - Day 1
During the 2024-2025 academic year, the seminars will bring together scholars, students, and community organizers to reflect on four interconnected themes of disability justice, transitional justice, environmental justice, and racial justice with the aim of illuminating common histories and methodological frameworks that can inform generative responses to past and present social harms. Each area of focus reflects not only the scholarly interests of our faculty and students, but also the institutional commitments of Rutgers University – Newark as an anchor institution devoting its resources to serve our community.
Dates:
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 | Newark Express, 54 Halsey Street, 2nd Floor, Room 213, Newark, NJ 07102
Thursday, February 6, 2025 | Newark Express, 54 Halsey Street, 2nd Floor, Room 213, Newark, NJ 07102
Time(s): 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Accommodations: Please submit accommodation requests to sawyerseminar@newark.rutgers.edu by Friday, April 18, 2025.
Overview: Recent conversations about reparations in the United States have drawn on both history and analyses of current economic, social, and political perspectives to propose reparative practices that range from monetary compensation to targeted policies that address racial disparities in wealth, housing discrimination, and education access, among others. At a wider scale, scholars like Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò have offered a constructivist view of reparations that proposes a historically informed project of distributive justice that serves a larger and broader world-making process. The project of reparations, therefore, has a forward-facing orientation that by necessity is anchored in the past.
