A student and faculty conference was held at Hamilton College.  The conference featured two plenary speakers addressing "What is Social Justice" and opening performance of the play "Let Me Down Easy" by Anna Deavere Smith.  Dr. Leslie Paul Thiele, Department of Political Science, University of Florida opened the conference on Saturday, September 8th at 9:30 a.m.

Anna Deavere Smith performed selections from her play
"Let Me Down Easy"
Hailed by Newsweek as "the most exciting individual in American theater," playwright and performance artist Anna Deavere Smith uses her singular brand of theater to explore issues of race, community and character in America.  Smith is best known as the author of Fires in the Mirror, which dealt with the 1991 Crown Heights Riot, and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, which dealt with the 1992 Los Angeles riots.  She also played National Security Advisor Nancy McNally on the TV series The West Wing.  News Story


Saturday, September 8th at 9:30 a.m. Science Center G027
Plenary Lecture: Professor Leslie Thiele.
"You Can Never Do Just One Thing: What Ecology Teaches Us About Social Justice"  News Story

2007 Conference Program

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