Global Slaveries, Impossible Freedoms; The Intellectual Legacies of John Hope Franklin

10:30-12:00 Session 1: Global HistoriesModerator, Loren Schweninger, Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina-GreensboroYesenia Barragan, Woodrow Wilson National Dissertation Fellow and Doctoral Candidate in Latin American History, Columbia UniversityKendra Field, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies, Tufts UniversityMichelle M. Wright, Professor of African American Studies, Northwestern University12:00-1:30 Lunch1:30-3:00Session 2: Slavery, Racism, and CapitalismModerator, Freddie Parker, Professor of History Emeritus, North Carolina CentralUniversitySven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard UniversityMartha Jones, Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies and co-director, Michigan Law Program in Race, Law & History and the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project, University of MichiganStephen Craig Wilder, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology3:30-5:00Session 3: Black Political ThoughtJelani Cobb, Associate Professor of History and Director, Institute for African American Studies, University of Connecticut, StorrsContributor to The New YorkerStephen H. Marshall, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at AustinAdam Green, Associate Professor of American History and the College, University of ChicagoModeratorRobert Hill, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California