Thursday, November 18, 2021, 12:00 – 17:00
Welcome & Introduction: Helen Gibson, M.A. and PD Dr. Barbara Lüthi
Dr. Cedric Essi, “Black Copyright: The Slave’s Narrative as Property”
Samira Spatzek, M.A., “On Private Property, Liberal Self-Making, and the Ruse of Solidarity in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy”
Cameron Seglias, M.A., “Benjamin Lay’s Settler Commonwealth”
Professor Mia Bay, “Moving Property: Race on the Road in the Automotive Age”
Friday, November 19, 2021, 10:00 – 13:00
Helen Gibson, M.A., “Fugitive Driving: Redlining in Mandatory Auto Insurance Issuance”
PD Dr. Simone Knewitz, “Black Power, Black Capitalism? Debates on Property Regimes in the 1960s”
M.J. Packo, M.A., “Redress and Reparations beyond the Nation State”