Friday Session 2 Why have slavery and its abolition become, in the past 20 years, a major, world-wide, phenomenon of public historical debate and practice? Why has the debate animated politics and new national narratives? Why the explosive development of museums and historic sites? Speakers: Anthony Bogues, Director, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, and Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Brown University James T. Campbell, Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History, Stanford University Sylviane Diouf, Director, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Tiya Miles, Mary Henrietta Graham Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan Moderator: David W. Blight, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and Class of 1954 Professor of American History, Yale University December 2, 2016 Brown University

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