Spring 2013 Symposium | Columbia Law School

Spring 2013 Symposium Honoring the Work of Patricia Williams

Friday March 1st, 2013

Jerome Greene Hall, Rooms 104-106
435 West 116th Street
(corner of 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue)

9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome - Katherine Franke

9:30 - 11:00 | Panel 1, Race, Gender and the Law – moderated by Olatunde Johnson

• Gina Dent, University of California, Santa Cruz, Feminist Studies
• Paula J. Giddings, Smith College, Afro-American Studies

• Anita Hill, Brandeis University, Senior Advisor to the Provost; Social Policy, Law, and Women’s Studies

11:30 – 1:00 | Panel 2, Ethics and the Body – moderated by Alondra Nelson

• Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago, English Language and Literature
• Evelynn M. Hammonds, Harvard University, Dean of Harvard College
• Robert Pollack, Columbia University, Biological Sciences

1:00 – 2:30 | Lunch

2:30 – 4:00 | Panel 3: Law as Interdisciplinary Enterprise – moderated by Kendall Thomas

• Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University, English
• Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School
• Anna Deavere Smith, New York University, Performance Studies *Note: Video recording of Anna Deavere's Smith presentation is not available.

4:30 – 6:00 | Keynote by Patricia Williams

6:00 – 7:00 | Reception