stopthemaangamizi.com

Stop the harm as the first step to repairing the damage!

Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • CONTACTS
  • I AM WITNESS
  • MAANGAMIZI DESECRATORS & DENIERS
  • SMWeCGEC PETITION
  • TAKE ACTION
  • REPARATIONS MARCH

Tag Archives: Tufts Action Group

INOSAAR Roundtable on Universities & Reparative Justice

Posted on October 11, 2020 by STOP THE MAANGAMIZI



    About this Event

    This is the livestream video of the International Network of Scholars & Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR) Roundtable Discussion facilitated by Professor Joyce Hope Scott, Clinical Professor of African American Studies at Boston University, Boston, USA which took place on 09/10/20.

    In this third roundtable hosted by the International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR), our panellists discuss the role and responsibility of universities in the struggle for reparative justice and in the context of recognizing the university sector’s historical links to slavery and colonialism.

    Reparations and acts of reparative and transitional justice will be interpreted broadly. For example, we could read the history of the Black colleges and universities in the USA as reparative, alongside the proliferation of centres and programmes dedicated to Black, Africana, African and African American Studies, which have sought to counteract the negative stereotypes of African peoples institutionalized by establishment academia.

    In 2003, Brown University in Rhode Island, USA, became the first higher education institution to openly acknowledge and apologize for its links to African enslavement. Its report, ‘Slavery and Justice’, acted as a catalyst for other institutions to establish how they profited from the enslavement of Afrikan peoples and functioned as primary sites in which racialized discourses were produced and validated.

    In some cases, recognition has resulted in the adoption of what might be considered reparatory measures, including: raising funds for educational grants and scholarships; renaming buildings and removing insignia and statues linked to enslavement, colonialism and racism; erecting new statues, monuments and sculptures; and inaugurating dedicated research centres.

    In 2014, an attempt to gather these efforts together and share practices across higher education institutions resulted the creation of an international consortium of ‘Universities Studying Slavery’, which now includes around seventy colleges and universities in the USA, the UK, Ireland and Canada.

    More recently, in 2019, the University of Glasgow signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of the West Indies to work together on the foundation of the Glasgow Caribbean Centre for Development which was widely reported as being a reparative justice initiative.

    It is against this backdrop of widening interest and increased lobbying for universities to recognize and redress their links to enslavement and colonialism that we are asking our panellists to consider the following questions:

    • What are some of the ethical questions raised by conducting research into the links between universities and their histories of Afrikan enslavement and colonialism?

    • Within universities, as sites of educational knowledge production, what are the different ways that reparation and reparative justice can be approached?

    • What processes are already underway within universities that might be defined as reparative?

    • What role should universities play, and what responsibilities do they have, in engaging with local, national and international communities (including communities of reparations interest) on matters of reparative and transitional justice, and what principles should guide that engagement?

    • What consideration has been given to creating spaces within higher education institutions to enable difficult conversations to take place within and outside of the university community?

    Our panellists include:

    Dr Nicola Frith is a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Edinburgh and co-founder of the INOSAAR, who focuses on the legacies and memories of enslavement and reparations.

    Professor Gus John, Visiting Professor at Coventry University and Honorary Fellow and Associate Professor at UCL Institute of Education at the University of London, is a renowned activist and academic who has been working in education, youth work and social justice since the 1960s.

    Dr Athol Williams is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where he focuses on ethical leadership, corporate responsibility and applied ethics.

    Professor Kris Manjapra, Associate Professor of History at Tufts University, and Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora. Manjapra is also a steering committee member of the Tufts Action Group; a grassroots organization of faculty and staff working in alignment with the Movement for Black Lives. Manjapra works on histories of colonialism, decolonization, plantation economies, and reparations movements. His most recent book is Colonialism in Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

    Professor Jemadari Kamara, PhD, is Founding Director of the Center for African, Caribbean and Community Development (CACCD) and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is former Senior Fulbright Professor at the Université Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal; international coordinator for the Youth Education and Sports (YES) with Africa Program (which has served nearly 3,000 African youth); Senior Advisor to the Boston Pan-African Forum; treasurer of the West African Research Association and Member of the board of directors of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century. Prof. Kamara has extensive expertise in Community Development and Public Policy; Black Social Movements; African-American Urban Politics and African-American Intellectual Thought. His numerous publications include State of the Race – Creating Our 21st Century.

    Esther Stanford-Xosei is a Jurisconsult, Interdisciplinary (Law & History) Scholar-Activist, Co-Vice Chair of PARCOE and Coordinator-General of the Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide Campaign.

    Posted in INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL MOVEMENT FOR AFRIKAN REPARATIONS, ISMAR, PRIM, Uncategorized | Tagged Athol Williams, Esther Stanford-Xosei, Gus John, INOSAAR, International Network of Scholars & Activists for Afrikan Reparations, Jemadari Kamara, Kris Manjapra, Nicola Frith, PARCOE, REPARATIONS, Reparative Justice, Reparatory Justice, Tufts Action Group, Universities, University of Glasgow, UWI | Leave a comment

    Recent Posts

    • Stop The Maangamizi Campaign co-organises historic meeting in Bristol re: reparations motion calling for the APPCITARJ
    • GHANA Stopping the Harm of Electoral Theivery Violence with the Reparatory Justice Promotion of Planet Repairs!
    • Stop the Maangamizi Campaign Briefing On UK Government Response to Written Question on the APPCITARJ Asked by Baroness Bennett
    • SMWeCGEC Supports XRAAAN’s OWAHALANUSE Eco-Justice Challenge to the Pan-African Parliament
    • Backgrounder: About The All-Party Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry for Truth & Reparatory Justice (APPCITARJ)

    Recent Comments

    Sibo Nanjallow on Esther Stanford-Xosei speech @…
    Tony G on SMWeCGEC & GAPP Statement…
    Chief Gege on RESPONSE FROM THE FOREIGN…
    Hazel on RESPONSE FROM THE FOREIGN…
    Bosheba on RESPONSE FROM THE FOREIGN…

    Archives

    • January 2021
    • December 2020
    • November 2020
    • October 2020
    • September 2020
    • August 2020
    • July 2020
    • June 2020
    • December 2019
    • November 2019
    • August 2019
    • June 2019
    • May 2019
    • March 2019
    • February 2019
    • January 2019
    • December 2018
    • November 2018
    • October 2018
    • August 2018
    • July 2018
    • April 2018
    • March 2018
    • February 2018
    • December 2017
    • November 2017
    • October 2017
    • September 2017
    • August 2017
    • July 2017
    • June 2017
    • May 2017
    • March 2017
    • February 2017
    • December 2016
    • November 2016
    • September 2016
    • August 2016
    • July 2016
    • May 2016
    • April 2016
    • March 2016
    • January 2016
    • October 2015

    Categories

    • 2019 AFRIKAN EMANCIPATION DAY REPARATIONS MARCH
    • AEDRMC
    • AFRIKAN HELLACAUST
    • AFRIKAN RESISTANCE
    • ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (APPCITARJ)
    • Ecocide
    • EVENTS/TRAINING
    • Extinction Rebellion
    • I AM WITNESS
    • INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL MOVEMENT FOR AFRIKAN REPARATIONS
    • ISMAR
    • MAANGAMIZI RESISTANCE
    • MAANGAMIZI RESISTERS
    • MAANGAMIZI RESISTORS
    • PALM
    • Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement
    • POPSAR
    • PREFIGURATIVE POLITICS
    • PRIM
    • REPARATIONS
    • REPARATIONS REBELLION 2020
    • REPARATIONS REBELLION GROUNDINGS
    • Reparatory Justice
    • SMWeCGEC
    • STOP ECOCIDE
    • STOP THE MAANGAMIZI CAMPAIGN
    • STOP THE MAANGAMIZI PETITION
    • THE 2016 1ST AUGUST AFRIKAN EMANCIPATION DAY REPARATIONS MARCH
    • THE 2017 AFRIKAN EMANCIPATION DAY REPARATIONS MARCH
    • THE 2018 AFRIKAN EMANCIPATION DAY REPARATIONS MARCH
    • UBUNTUKGOTLA/PITGJ
    • Uncategorized

    Meta

    • Register
    • Log in
    • Entries feed
    • Comments feed
    • WordPress.com
    Blog at WordPress.com.
    Cancel