Racism and Repair At and Beyond Johns Hopkins University: Symposium on New Research into the History of Johns Hopkins

Description

Over the past three years, research teams funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and composed of leading experts have been excavating how academic departments in the medical sciences, social sciences, and humanities at Johns Hopkins University both created racist forms of knowledge and expertise and were reshaped by anti-racist and desegregation struggles in the 20th century.

This symposium will mark the first public presentation of the findings of these research teams. It will contextualize segregated knowledge production in the history of Baltimore City and propose forms of reparation while also inviting community feedback.

Among the academic departments to be discussed are: Archaeology, Emergency Medicine, Hematology, History, Sociology, and Surgery.

This symposium is co-sponsored by Inheritance Baltimore: Humanities and Arts Education for Black Liberation and the Johns Hopkins Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship.