Good evening, and welcome to so important and interest, slavery and the United States constitution. I want to welcome you to our final event for our constitution weekend. You may know me as the programming lead for the actor interpreters and many recognize me from my time around Colonial Williamsburg portraying free and enslaved black people, but this evening i had the pleasure of serving as your moderator. I am also joined by ali larson and hope wright and hope right, hope right, my Dear Colleague began her career at Colonial Williamsburg when she was in the third grade. She was a performer in a play on my own time and the black music program. She has collaborated with many other departments at the foundation as well as with other museums over the course of her career. She has worked with a variety of educational institutions as an actress, storyteller, writer, researcher, and mentor. Please welcome hope wright. Our special guest allie larson is a professor of law and director of the
Good evening, and welcome to so important and interest, slavery and the United States constitution. I am deirdre jones. I want to welcome you to our final event for our constitution weekend. You may know me as the programming lead for the actor interpreters and many recognize me from my time around Colonial Williamsburg portraying free and enslaved black people, but this evening i had the pleasure of serving as your moderator. I am also joined by and hope right, hope right, my Dear Colleague began her career at Colonial Williamsburg when she was in the third grade. She was a performer in a plate on my own time and the black music program. She has collaborated with many other departments at the foundation as well as with other museums over the course of her career. She has worked with a variety of educational institutions as an actress, storyteller, writer, researcher, and mentor. Please welcome hope wright. Our special guest allie larson is a professor of law and director of the instit
Our special guest allie larson is a professor of law and director of the institute of the bill of rights law, since she joined the faculty in 2010, she has received many awards including the statewide outstanding faculty award and the in the rising star category. Offessor larson is a scholar constitutional law and Legal Institution for the focus on how information dynamics affect the votes. Her work has been featured multiple times in various publications and these are just a few of her accomplishments, please help me in welcoming allie larson. Our discussion may be about an hour long and it may feel uncomfortable at times, that is ok, you may feel angry, that is ok. You may feel sad, that is also ok. All of these feelings arose for me when i was researching for an event and it is ok to feel something. This reminds us that we care. While slavery is not the beginning of the story, for the purposes of trying to dive into large topics in a very little bit of time we will start our evening
Were like 7000000000 people and we speak 7000. 00 languages. We need language for communication, but is language in that sense kind of preventing communication rather than facilitating it. I mean, since every language cost to some sort of a private club thats more or less outsiders. Right. Right. Thats always been one conception of language, is that collectively that people that speak a language, even a very its a little bit from person to person. You can think of as a kind of cultural artifact thats being created by the people or last week that way. Of course, the way we want to study language might differ from that because language can be used for lots of things. It can be used for communication about it can also be used for miscommunication as well as weve seen in the current election, not only just just here in the united states, but lots of other places too. So theres this aspect of language about whats knowledge of language thats inside your head, that you actually that every hum
Century. An event that embodied justice over tyranny. I chose a letter that i hope and bodies those qualities. Number, germany, june 1st, 1946. Grace, my dearest, it is now about 9 pm. I am here with you. I prefer to pass my time with you, rather than reading or doing anything. You are so much on my mind at all times. I had a nice letter from judge wide thanking me for betray sent to him. He said he showed it to judge jennings, who showed interest but made no comment. White said this is the greatest trial in history, and while it seems long to me now, in a few years, i would look back on it with great satisfaction. By the way, be sure to read Walter Lippmans article in the ladies home journal for june. It is really a good thing, i think, and it gives you some idea of how important this proceeding is. There is a great satisfaction of doing ones job, particularly a job like this. It really is of great importance everyone. And as he says, sunday will be recognized as a great landmark in t