Proclaiming Emancipation at the University of Michigan

9:00 a.m. Welcome

9:30–11:30 a.m. Panel I. Emancipation’s Many Legalities

CHAIR, Rebecca Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, University of Michigan

Fugitive Slaves, Military Intelligence, and Civil Rights before the Emancipation Proclamation, Kate Masur, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University

Emancipation’s Hidden Legacy: Lincoln and the Laws of War, John Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, Yale University

Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Making of a Modern Liberal State, William Novak, Professor of Law, University of Michigan and Stephen Sawyer, Associate Professor of History, The American University of Paris

COMMENT, Julian Davis Mortenson, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan

1:30 –3:30 p.m. Panel II. Time, Space and the Meanings of Emancipation

CHAIR, Richard Primus, Professor of Law, University of Michigan

“Negro Outlaws:” Enslaved Women’s Proclamations of Emancipation, Thavolia Glymph, Associate Professor of African & African American Studies, History, and Duke Population Research Institute, Duke University

August 8, 1861: Emancipation Begins, James Oakes, Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York Graduate Center

The Emancipated: A Stateless People with Rights, Michael Vorenberg, Associate Professor of History, Brown University

Emancipation’s Encounters: Seeing the Proclamation Through Soldiers’ Sketchbooks, Martha S. Jones, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies and Affiliated Faculty of Law, University of Michigan

COMMENT, Hannah Rosen, Assistant Research Scientist and Associate Director for Graduate Programs and Scholarship, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan

Law School Aikens Commons

4:00 –6:00 p.m. Keynote, Lincoln’s Emancipation, Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University