Loving v. the State of Virginia Panel Discussion
Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
11/30/2017
3:00 pm
On the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case, Loving v. the State of Virginia (1967), these distinguished scholars examine the profound issues raised and mapped by the Loving case. Panelists will speak to the creation of racial boundaries in this country and how these often depend on racial state policies. And as the recent film, Loving, explored, they will discuss what, on an interpersonal level what does it mean to embrace and/or reject fixed racial, gender, sexual, class, national and/or other identities in our individual choices for creating family, community, political activism and/or romantic partnerships?
Panel Speakers:
Paul Spickard, Professor, History, University of California, Santa Barbara (Keynote Speaker)
Kevin Escudero, Assistant Professor, American Studies, Brown University
Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, Professor, History, University of Connecticut
Micki McElya, Associate Professor, History, University of Connecticut
Melanie Newport, Assistant Professor, History, University of Connecticut
Sean Forbes, Assistant Professor in Residence, English, University of Connecticut
For more information, contact: Africana Studies Institute at africana@uconn.edu