Constitution Day

Constitution Day 2024

Cecilia Cao — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:33:13 +0000

Monday, September 16, 2024

09:30 a.m. - 05:30 p.m. PT

Free

Library 121

marcs@sfsu.edu

Overview

16 – 17 September 2024

The sponsors are the College of Liberal & Creative Arts, the History Department, the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair in U.S. History, and the History Students Association.

Keynote Speakers

Khiara M. Bridges

Khiara M. Bridges will present “Race and the Roberts Court: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.” Bridges, a Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law, is a leading scholar of race, class, reproductive rights, and their intersections. Her scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, and Virginia Law Review, among others. She is the author of three books: Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (2011); The Poverty of Privacy Rights (2017); and Critical Race Theory: A Primer (2019). Her fourth book, Expecting Inequity: Race, Class, and Reproductive Justice, is under contract with MIT Press and will be published in 2025. She is also a co-editor of a reproductive justice book series that is published under the imprint of the University of California Press. Bridges graduated as valedictorian from Spelman College, receiving her degree in three years. She received her JD from Columbia Law School and her Ph.D., with distinction, from Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology.

Rana Marie Jaleel

Rana Marie Jaleel will present “Academic Freedom and Diversity Complications.” Jaleel is an Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at UC Davis. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York Univ., a JD from the Yale Law School, and an MFA in Poetry from the Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 2013 to 2015, Jaleel was the Center for Reproductive Rights Fellow at Columbia Law School. At UC Davis, she is a 2022-25 Chancellor’s Fellow, a 2021-24 College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Faculty Fellow, and the recipient of the 2024 Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity and Community. Her first book, The Work of Rape, received a 2021 Duke Univ. Press Scholars of Color First Book Award and was co-winner of the 2022 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prize from the National Women's Studies Association. Her work also has been published by Amerasia, Critical Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Social Text, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Brooklyn Law Review. A longtime member of the American Association of University Professors, she chairs Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

Schedule

Day 1 - Monday, September 16

Session 1: The Rights and Wrongs of a Deconstructed Administrative State: Threats to Equality and Equity in the Current Context
9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m., Library 121

Moderator: Jennifer Shea (SFSU School of Public Affairs & Civic Engagement)

M. Ernita Joaquin (SFSU Public Administration Program): “Can the Constitution Withstand ‘Retribution’? How Four Years of Rebuilding Stacks Up Against Trump’s Agenda”
Tony Sparks (SFSU Urban Studies & Planning Program): “Cruel But Not Unusual: Civil Rights v. Urban Aesthetics in the Jefferson v. Grants Pass SCOTUS Decision”
Emiko Takagi (SFSU Gerontology Program): “Civic Engagement in Aging Societies: Addressing Ageism as a Human Rights Issue”
Mira Foster (SFSU Libraries): “Judicial Responses to Book Banning in Libraries”

Session 2: Asian American Civic Engagement and Exclusion: Past, Present, Future
11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Eric Mar (SFSU Asian American Studies Department)

Richard Chang (Citizen Wong Project): “Wong Chin Foo (1847-1898): The First Asian American Civil Rights Leader”
Russell Jeung (SFSU Asian American Studies Department): “Stop AAPI Hate and the Fight to Protect Our Civil Rights”
Joyce Xi (Photographer and Activist): “Racial Profiling of Chinese Americans in the Name of National Security”

Session 3: The Weaponization of Anti-Discrimination Law and Free Speech for Palestine
12:30 – 1:45 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: James Martel (SFSU Political Science Department)

Persis Karim (SFSU Humanities and Comparative World Literature Department): “Redefining Anti-Semitism to Undermine Academic Freedom and Pro-Palestinian Speech”
Blanca Missé (SFSU Modern Languages and Literatures Department): “On the Recent Use of Title VI Investigations to Silence Free Speech for Palestine”

Session 4: War Metaphors at Work
2 – 3:30 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Teresa Pratt (SFSU Linguistics Program, English Language and Literature Department)

Jenny Lederer (SFSU Linguistics Program, English Language and Literature Department) and Maxwell Goodwin (SFSU Linguistics Program, English Language and Literature Department): “Metaphors of the Labor Movement: How Language Shapes the Union-Management Divide”

Session 5: Keynote Presentation by Khiara M. Bridges - “Race and the Roberts Court: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization”
4 – 5:30 p.m. Library 121

Welcome: Dean Ifeoma Nwankwo, SFSU College of Liberal & Creative Arts

Moderator: Marc Stein, SFSU History Department

Biography: Khiara M. Bridges, a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, is a leading scholar of race, class, reproductive rights, and their intersections. Her scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, and Virginia Law Review, among others. She is the author of three books: Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (2011); The Poverty of Privacy Rights (2017); and Critical Race Theory: A Primer (2019). Her fourth book, Expecting Inequity: Race, Class, and Reproductive Justice, is under contract with MIT Press and will be published in 2025. She is also a co-editor of a reproductive justice book series that is published under the imprint of the University of California Press. Bridges graduated as valedictorian from Spelman College, receiving her degree in three years. She received her JD from Columbia Law School and her Ph.D., with distinction, from Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology.

Day 2 - Tuesday, September 17

Session 6: Fourteenth Amendment Successes and Failures
9:30 – 10:45 a.m., Library 121

Moderator: Guillaume Marche (University of Paris-Est Créteil English Department)

William Clark (SFSU English Language and Literature Department): “Abandoned Rights, Unequal Futures: Critically Narrating 14th Amendment Failures through W.E.B. Dubois’s and Derrick Bell’s Science Fiction”
Paul P. DeAngelis (SFSU Paralegal Studies Program): “Justice Ginsburg: Her Work in the 1970s to Expand 14th Amendment Protections”

Session 7: The South African Case against Israel in the International Court of Justice
11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Kasturi Ray (SFSU Women and Gender Studies Department)

Mahmood Monshipuri (SFSU International Relations Department): “Israel’s Genocide and War Crimes in Gaza”
Fatima Zahrae (SFSU Communication Studies Department): “Algerian Perspectives on the South African Case in the International Court of Justice”
Charles Postel (SFSU History Department): Why the South African Case at the International Court of Justice Puts the United States in the Dock”

Session 8: Centering Solidarity in Student Activism and Women’s Rights Through Oral History: The SFSU 1968-69 Black Student Union and Third World Liberation Front Student Strike and the 2024 International Working Women’s Day
12:30 – 1:45p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Chrissy Lau (Asian American Studies Department)

Roundtable Participants:

Sydney Jackson (SFSU History Department)
Ernest Olivar (SFSU Asian American Studies Department)
Hal Saga (SFSU Race and Resistance Studies Department)
Charlene Olivar (SFSU Biology Department)
Tiffany Caesar (SFSU Africana Studies Department)
Rama Kased (SFSU Race and Resistance Studies Department)

Session 9: Constitutional Law and Social Justice in U.S. History
2 – 3:30 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Charles Postel (SFSU History Department)

Zachary Greenberg (SFSU History Department): “Psychiatric Authority, the U.S. Constitution, and the Rise and Fall of the ‘Sexual Psychopath,’ 1938-1973”
Tara Madhhav (University of California, Berkeley, History Department): “Special Education, Desegregation, and the Fight against IQ Testing”
Julian Moreno (SFSU History Department): “The Supreme Court and Civil Rights from Reconstruction to Reconstruction: Charting the Language of Reform from Dissents to Majorities”

Session 10: Keynote Presentation by Rana Marie Jaleel – “Academic Freedom and Diversity Complications”
4 – 5:30 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Marc Stein, SFSU History Department

Biography: Rana Marie Jaleel is an Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York Univ., a JD from the Yale Law School, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 2013 to 2015, Jaleel was the Center for Reproductive Rights Fellow at Columbia Law School. At UC Davis, she is a 2022-25 Chancellor’s Fellow, a 2021-24 College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Faculty Fellow, and the recipient of the 2024 Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity and Community. Her first book, The Work of Rape, received a 2021 Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award and was co-winner of the 2022 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prize from the National Women's Studies Association. Her work also has been published by Amerasia, Critical Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Social Text, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Brooklyn Law Review. A longtime member of the American Association of University Professors, she chairs Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

Accessibility

The conference sponsors are the College of Liberal & Creative Arts, the History Department, the History Students Association, and the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair in U.S. History. The Rights and Wrongs conference welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations upon request. SFSU students, faculty, and staff with disabilities who need reasonable accommodations are encouraged to contact the Disability Programs and Resource Center (DPRC), which is available to facilitate the reasonable accommodations process. The DPRC is located in the Student Service Building and can be reached by telephone (voice/415-338-2472, video phone/415-335-7210) or by email (dprc@sfsu.edu). Others who need reasonable accommodations for this event can contact Marc Stein at marcs@sfsu.edu as soon as possible so the request can be reviewed.

Acknowledgements

Grateful acknowledgement to Dean Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo for the support of the College of Liberal & Creative Arts; Laura Lisy-Wagner (Chair) for the support of the History Department; Cecilia Cao for website management; Audrey Chuck for financial administration; Academic Technology for iLearn support; and Sana Hussaini for poster design. We also acknowledge with appreciation the Pasker/Pittman families for their generous support of the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair, which supports historical and legal studies at San Francisco State University.

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Constitution Day 2023

Adrian Domingo — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:16:43 +0000

Monday, September 18, 2023

09:30 a.m. - 05:30 p.m. PT

Free

Library 121

marcs@sfsu.edu

Overview

September 18 – 19, 2023

San Francisco State University has a proud tradition of organizing conferences for Constitution and Citizenship Day, a national holiday that commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. The 2023 conference provides multiple opportunities to reflect critically on the past, present, and future of constitutional rights, freedoms, citizenship, democracy, equality, and justice. This year’s conference feature two keynote speakers, who will help us commemorate the 50^th anniversary of San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) and the 200^thanniversary of Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823). Unless otherwise noted, all sessions will take place in Library 121.

The sponsors are the College of Liberal & Creative Arts, the History Department, the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair in U.S. History, and the History Students Association.

Keynote Speakers

Rachel F. Moran

Rachel F. Moran will present “The Right to Education and the Road Not Taken.” Moran is Professor of Law at Texas A&M Univ. School of Law. Prior to that, she was Distinguished and Chancellor’s Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law and Dean Emerita at UCLA Law, and the Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law at Berkeley Law. She helped to found the UC Irvine law school in 2008. Moran has written over 100 articles and chapters exploring bilingual education, desegregation, affirmative action, and other topics. She is the author of Interracial Intimacy (U. Chicago Press, 2001), co-editor of Race Law Stories (Foundation, 2008), and co-author of Educational Policy and the Law (Cengage, 2011). As the inaugural Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation (ABF), she helped launch an initiative on "The Future of Latinos in the United States: Law, Opportunity, and Mobility." Moran is a member of the American Law Institute and the ABF, a member of the Board of Trustees for the Law and Society Association, and Past President of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

Kristen Carpenter

Kristen Carpenter will present “Indigenous Lands and Human Rights in the United States.” Carpenter is the Council Tree Professor of Law and Director of the American Indian Law Program at the Univ. of Colorado Law School. She served as chair and member of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples from 2017 to 2021. With colleagues at the Native American Rights Fund, Carpenter serves as co-director of The Implementation Project, which advances the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples through education and advocacy. She also serves as a Justice of the Shawnee Tribe Supreme Court. The author of many academic articles and several books, her recent works include “‘Aspirations’ and Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights in the United States (Harvard Human Rights Journal, 2023); “Living the Sacred: Indigenous Peoples and Religious Freedom” (Harvard Law Review, 2021), and “Indigenous Peoples and Diplomacy on the World Stage” (American Journal of International Law, 2021). Carpenter is a co-author of Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law (7th ed., 2017). Carpenter has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.

Schedule

Day 1 - Monday, September 18

Session 1: Making the Constitution Work
9:30 – 10:45 a.m., Library 121

Moderator: Daniel Bernardi (SF State School of Cinema)

M. Ernita Joaquin (SF State Public Administration Program): “A Hole in the Constitution: The Right and the Wrongs of a Deconstructed Administrative State”
Sheldon Gen (SF State Public Administration Program): “‘So I Swore to Uphold the Constitution--Now What?’: Public Service Careers in a Meaningful Life”
Jennifer Shea (SF State Public Administration Program): “Navigating Essentially Contested Constitutional Values: A Role for Nonprofit Professionals?”

Session 2: Rewriting the Constitution
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Sue Englander (SF State History Department)

Steve Harris (SF State History Department): Changing the Constitution: A Proposal to Start Anew
Commentator: Nicholas D. Conway (SF State Political Science Department)
Commentator: Rebecca M. Eissler (SF State Political Science Department)

Session 3: Reading and Responding to Dobbs
12:30 – 1:45 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Amanda Michelle Roberti (SF State Political Science Department)

Mark Leinauer (SF State Political Science Department): “What Remains after Dobbs? How Some Small Victories for Abortion Access Are Still Possible”
Kurt Nutting (SF State Philosophy Department): “The Supreme Court’s Use of ‘Originalist’ Theories of Constitutional Interpretation in Dobbs”

Session 4: Academic Freedom at and beyond SF State
2 – 3:30 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: James Martel (SF State Political Science Department)

Persis Karim (SF State Comparative and World Literature Department): “Inside, Outside, and All Around: Political Trends that Undermine Academic Freedom”
Jeff Greensite (SF State Physics and Astronomy Department): “On the Right to Tell People What They Do Not Want to Hear”
Maziar Behrooz (SF State History Department): “Academic Freedom: The Controversy over the Imaginary Portrait of Prophet Muhammad”

Session 5: Keynote Presentation by Rachel Moran - “The Right to Education and the Road Not Taken”
4 – 5:30 p.m., Library 121

Welcome: Dean Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, College of Liberal & Creative Arts

Biography: Moran is Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law. Prior to that, she was Distinguished and Chancellor’s Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law and Dean Emerita at UCLA Law, and the Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law at Berkeley Law. She helped to found the law school at UC Irvine in 2008. Moran has written over 100 articles and chapters exploring bilingual education, desegregation, affirmative action, and other topics. She is the author of Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance (U. Chicago Press, 2001), co-editor of Race Law Stories (Foundation, 2008), and co-author of Educational Policy and the Law (Cengage, 2011). As the inaugural Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation (ABF), she helped launch an initiative on "The Future of Latinos in the United States: Law, Opportunity, and Mobility." Moran is a member of the American Law Institute and the ABF, a member of the Board of Trustees for the Law and Society Association, and Past President of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

Moderator: Marc Stein, SF State History Department

Day 2 - Tuesday, September 19

Session 6: Keynote Presentation by Kristen Carpenter – “Indigenous Lands and Human Rights in the United States”
9:15 – 10:45 a.m., Library 121

Welcome: Gregg Castro, t'rowt'raahl Salinan/rumsen & ramaytush Ohlone, Association of Ramaytush Ohlone Culture Director

Biography: Carpenter is the Council Tree Professor of Law and Director of the American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School. She served as chair and member of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) from 2017 to 2021. With colleagues at the Native American Rights Fund, Carpenter is now co-director of The Implementation Project, which advances the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples through education and advocacy. She also serves as a Justice of the Shawnee Tribe Supreme Court. The author of many academic articles and several books, she co-edited The Indian Civil Rights Act at Forty (UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 2012); co-edited Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law (Lexis, 2015 and 2017); and co-authored Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law (West, 2017). Carpenter has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.

Moderator: Marc Stein, SF State History Department

Session 7: Left Politics and Constitutional Rights in the Mid-Twentieth Century
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., Labor Archives and Research Center, Library 460

Moderator: Tanya Hollis (SF State Labor Archives and Research Center)

Robert Cherny (SF State History Department, Emeritus), “San Francisco Communists v. the Supreme Court”

This session is cosponsored by the Labor Archives and Research Center.

Session 8: Transing Law
12:30 – 1:45p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Amy Sueyoshi (SF State Provost)

Marc Stein (SF State History Department): “Cruel and Unusual Punishment for a Trans Sex Worker: Perkins v. North Carolina (1964)”
Clare Sears: (SF State Sociology and Sexuality Studies Department): “Dress and Defiance: From Nineteenth Century Cross-Dressing Laws to Twenty-First Century Drag Show Bans”
A. Ikaika Gleisberg: (SF State Sociology and Sexuality Studies Department): “Unsettling Trans Militarism: A Trans of Color Abolitionist Critique on the Limits of Inclusion”

Session 9: Anti-Blackness and the Law in the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
2 – 3:30 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Robert Keith Collins (SF State American Indian Studies Department)

Mario X. Burrus (University of California, Berkeley, History Department): “‘One Eighth African Blood’: From Plessy to Loving and the Legal Fallacies of Jim Crow Logic”
Margot Lipin (University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program): “‘Bloody Phrases’: White Supremacy, Violence, and Liberalism in U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876)”
Tara Madhav (University of California, Berkeley, History Department): “Criticisms of the Private/Public Distinction in Black Radical Thought”

Session 10: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion Rights
4 – 5:30 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Marc Stein (SF State History Department)

Radhika Rao (University of California College of Law, San Francisco): “America’s Abortion Theocracy”

The sponsors are the College of Liberal & Creative Arts, the History Department, the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair in U.S. History, and the History Students Association.

Accessibility

The Rights and Wrongs conference welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations upon request. SF State students, faculty and staff with disabilities who need reasonable accommodations are encouraged to contact the Disability Programs and Resource Center (DPRC), which is available to facilitate the reasonable accommodations process. The DPRC is located in the Student Service Building and can be reached by telephone (voice/(415) 338-2472, video phone/(415) 335-7210) or by email (dprc@sfsu.edu). Others who need reasonable accommodations for this event can contact Marc Stein at marcs@sfsu.edu as soon as possible so the request can be reviewed.

Acknowledgements

Grateful acknowledgement to Interim Dean Sophie Clavier and Dean Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo for the support of the College of Liberal & Creative Arts; Laura Lisy-Wagner (Chair) for the support of the History Department; Alexis Cabrera for website management; Audrey Chuck for financial administration; Academic Technology for ilearn support; and Sana Hussaini for poster design. We also acknowledge with appreciation the Pasker/Pittman families for their generous support of the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair, which supports historical and legal studies at San Francisco State University.

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Constitution Day 2022

Alexis Cabrera — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 18:26:32 +0000

Thursday, September 15, 2022

09:30 a.m. - 03:45 p.m. PT

Free

Humanities Building, Room 133 and Library 121

marcs@sfsu.edu

Overview

September 15 – 16, 2022

Unless otherwise noted, all sessions will take place in Library 121. For further information continue to visit this website and follow social media, #rightsandwrongs; @RightsWrongsSF.

The conference sponsors are the College of Liberal & Creative Arts, the History Department, the History Students Association, and the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair in U.S. History.

Day 1

Session 1: Keynote Presentation by Leti Volpp - “Citizenship Acts: The Legacy of Ozawa v. United States”
9:30 – 10:45 a.m., Humanities Building 133

Moderator: Marc Stein (SF State History Department)

The Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley, Volpp earned a JD from Columbia Law School, a MSc in Legal Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and a MSc in Public Health from Harvard. She is the co-editor of Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places (Fordham University Press, 2019) and Legal Borderlands (Johns Hopkins Univ. 2006). Her recent publications include “Migrant Justice Now” in the Colorado Law Review (2021); “Pushing Out and Bleeding In: On the Mobility of Borders” in The Shifting Border: Ayelet Shachar in Dialogue (Manchester Univ. Press, 2020); “Protecting the Nation from ‘Honor Killings’” in Constitutional Commentary (2019); “Refugees Welcome?” in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal (2018); and “Passports in the Time of Trump” in Symplokē (2018). Her honors include two Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships, a MacArthur Foundation Individual Research and Writing Grant, the Association of American Law Schools Minority Section Derrick A. Bell, Jr., Award, and the Professor Keith Aoki Asian Pacific American Jurisprudence Award.

Session 2: Abraham Lincoln’s Constitution
11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Eva Sheppard Wolf (SF State History Department)

Peter Field (University of Canterbury, Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha, School of Humanities and Creative Arts): “‘A Picture of Silver Framing an Apple of Gold’: Abraham Lincoln’s Understanding of the American Constitution”

Session 3: Keynote Presentation by Radhika Rao - “Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: Roe, Dobbs, and the Future of Abortion”
12:30 – 1:45 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Marc Stein (SF State History Department)

Radhika Rao will present “Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: Roe, Dobbs, and the Future of Abortion.” Professor of Law and Harry and Lillian Hastings Research Chair at the University of California Hastings College of Law, Rao earned her JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, was Supreme Court Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and clerked for Harry Blackmun and Thurgood Marshall at the US Supreme Court. She has been a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School and the University of Michigan and a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at the University of Trento in Italy. Her recent publications include “Informed Consent, Body Property, and Self-Sovereignty” in Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (2016); “Selective Reduction: ‘A Soft Cover for Hard Choices’ or Another Name for Abortion” in Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (2015); and “Equal Liberty: Assisted Reproductive Technology and Reproductive Equality” in UCLA Law Review (2008). She also wrote the entry on abortion for the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford Univ. Press, 2017). She has served as a member of the California Advisory Committee on Human Cloning and currently serves on the California Human Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee.

Day 2

Session 4: Threats to Democracy
10:30 a.m. – noon, Library 121

Moderator: Charles Postel (SF State History Department)

Rebecca Eissler (SF State Political Science Department), “The Nature of the Presidency: Lessons from January 6^th”
Nick Conway (SF State Political Science Department), “In Through the Backdoor: Recent Redistricting and Election Challenges at the Supreme Court”

Session 5: Reproductive Justice
12:30 – 2 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Karen Boyce (SF State Health Promotion and Wellness)

Marc Stein (SF State History Department): “From Marital to Reproductive Rights: Commemorating the 50^th Anniversary of Eisenstadt v. Baird”
Amanda Michelle Roberti (SF State Political Science Department): “From Reproductive Just-Us to Reproductive Justice: Forging an Inclusive and Dignity-Based Abortion Policy Post-Roe”

Session 6: Workers’ Rights: Labor Confronts the Law and the Supreme Court
2:15 – 3:45 p.m., Library 121

Moderator: Sue Englander (SF State History Department)

William B. Gould IV (Stanford Law School): “The Supreme Court and Labor Law: Some Reflections on Janus and Other High Court Rulings”
Karen Sawislak (University of San Francisco Faculty Association): “Labor Law on the Ground”
Reuel Schiller (University of California Hastings College of Law): “Unions and the State: What Labor History Tells Us About the Relationship Between Unions and the Constitution”

Accessibility

Acknowledgements

Grateful acknowledgement to Dean Andrew T. Harris and Interim Dean Sophie Clavier for the support of the College of Liberal & Creative Arts; Laura Lisy-Wagner (Chair) for the support of the History Department; Alexis Cabrera, Sheri Kennedy, and Diana Rumjahn for website management; Niko Sigua, Ruth Truman, Dylan Weir, and Jennifer Zoland for administrative assistance; Audrey Chuck for financial administration; Christopher Clark for communications and technology assistance; Academic Technology for ilearn support; and Erick Delgado for poster design. We also acknowledge with appreciation the Pasker/Pittman families for their generous support of the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair, which supports historical and legal studies at SF State.

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Constitution Day 2021

Cecilia Cao — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 21:31:01 +0000

Thursday, September 16, 2021

08:00 a.m. - 08:00 p.m. PT

Free

iLearn

history@sfsu.edu

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Overview

San Francisco State University has a proud tradition of sponsoring Constitution and Citizenship Day conferences that have featured the participation of a large number of students, faculty and community members. The conference provides multiple opportunities to reflect critically on the past, present and future of constitutional rights, freedoms, citizenship, democracy, equality and justice. This year’s virtual conference will feature nine sessions. The presentations will be prerecorded and made available to the SF State community on and after 16 September. For access to the recordings and participation in the all-campus survey, which will be conducted from September 1 to September 10 and discussed in Session 5, please use the iLearn collaborative site “Rights Wrongs 21.”

Session 1: Keynote Presentation by Martha P. Jones on Voting Rights

Presentation Title: “Vanguard: How Black Women Have Always Led the Fight for Voting Rights”

Biography: The Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, she earned a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and a J.D. from the City University of New York. Jones is the author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers,Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (2020). Her 2018 book, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, won awards from the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and American Society for Legal History. Jones also is the author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (2007) and coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (2015). She has served as co-president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and currently serves on the boards of the Society of American Historians, Johns Hopkins University Press, Journal of African American History, and Slavery & Abolition.

Moderator: Marc Stein, SF State History Department
Discussants: Sherry J. Katz (SF State History Department); Kym Morrison (SF State History Department); Felicia A. Viator (SF State History Department)

Session 2: Keynote Presentation by James Colgrove on Epidemics and Civil Liberties

Presentation Title: “Pandemics and Power: Individual Liberty and Government Authority during Health Emergencies Past and Present.”

Biography: A Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Dean of the Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program at the Columbia School of General Studies, he earned an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language from San Francisco State University and a Masters of Public Health and Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia. His books include Epidemic City: The Politics of Public Health in New York (2011), Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America (2007), and State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America (2006). His articles have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, Science, Health Affairs, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics.

Moderator: Marc Stein, SF State History Department
Discussants: Colleen Conmy Hoff (SF State Center for Research and Education on Gender and Sexuality); Cathy Kudlick (SF State History Department and Longmore Institute on Disability); Jesus Ramirez-Valles (SF State Health Equity Institute)