Panel: Reparations from Below
The indigenous and the colonised are owed a debt. Our claims to repair are caught up in an asymmetrical power dynamic. The perpetrators of imperial crime are, in so many of our institutions, the judges that have the power to determine their own sentence. In this panel, we will introduce and explore reparations from below, a framework on the reclamation of agency in the power struggle over healing, repair, and liberation.
This is a panel event, falling on the week of Juneteenth, featuring four friends and mentors who work in the reparations ecosystem to build upon the ongoing conversation following the UN’s Decade of Reparations within and beyond Oxford, and to answer the question: What is the path toward making repaired subjects out of ourselves?
Speakers:
- Esther Xosei, Pan-Afrikan Activist
- Jovan Scott Lewis, UC Berkeley Professor
- Vanessa Racehorse, Native Legal Scholar
- Kofi Maluwi Klu, Reparations Scholar-Activist
Moderated by Sydni Scott, MPhil in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation, TAP Movement
Date: Monday 16 June 2025
Time: 1 pm - 3 pm
Location: Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road or Zoom access available
