2005 Papers

Slavery, Exploitation, and the Philosophy of Reparations

• Pablo de Greiff, Director of Research, International Center for Transitional Justice, Addressing the Past: Reparations for Gross Human Rights Abuses
• Thomas McCarthy, Professor of Philosophy and John Shaffer Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University, Remarks on the Morality and Politics of Reparations for Slavery  
• Janna Thompson, Associate Professor and Head of the Australian Research Council Special Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, Memory and the Ethics of Reparation

Law, Memory, and the Politics of Reconciliation, Atonement, and Apology

• Roy L. Brooks, Warren Distinguished Professor of Law and University Professor, University of San Diego, Institutional Atonement for Slavery: Colleges and Corporations
• Brian Weiner, Associate Professor of Politics, University of San Francisco, National Apologies: Extraordinary Politics within Ordinary Times 

American Slavery and the History of Reparations

• Martha Biondi, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History, Northwestern University, Preliminary Comments on Black Intellectuals and Reparation in the Black Power Era
• John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Reading the Language of Reparations and the Meaning of Emancipation, 1865-1917 (Abstract)

 Germany, Holocaust Memory, and the Idea of Historical Justice

• Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, Brown University, Guilt and Accountability in the Postwar Courtroom: The Holocaust in Czortkow and Buczacz, East Galicia, As Seen in West German Legal Discourse
• Jeffrey Herf, Professor of History, University of Maryland at College Park, Why Any Memory and Justice, Rather than None at All? Comparative Reflections on West Germany after the Holocaust and the United States after the Civil War

 Latin America, Slavery, Exploitation and Historical Justice

• Hebe Maria Mattos, Professor of History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil, “Remanescentes de Quilombo”: Memory of Slavery, Historical Justice, and Citizenship in Contemporary Brazil
• Stephen Pitti, Professor of History, Yale University, Bracero Justice: The Legacies of Mexican Contract Labor 

Caste and Historical Justice in Comparison: India, South Africa, and the United States 

• Uday Mehta, Clarence Francis Professor in the Social Sciences, Amherst College, History and the Social Problem: The Case of India
• Graeme Simpson, Program Director, International Center for Transitional Justice, Race Against Time: The Politics of Memory in South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Process  
• Linda Faye Williams, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland at College Park, The Constraint of Race: Slavery, the Legacy of the “White Citizen,” and American Social Policy