EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: Friday, Oct. 26, 2012.

EVENT: The University of Michigan Law School commemorates the approaching 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with a conference and an exhibit of documents and artifacts. “Proclaiming Emancipation” is presented by the Law School’s Program in Race, Law & History and the William L. Clements Library, in cooperation with the Hatcher Graduate Library.

The keynote will be Eric Foner, 4-6 p.m., Law School, Aikens Commons. Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of this country’s most prominent historians. His most recent book, “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery,” won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011.

Participants include: Thavolia Glymph, Duke University, history; Martha S. Jones, Michigan Law, history, and Afroamerican and African studies; Kate Masur, Northwestern University, history; Julian Davis Mortenson, Michigan Law; William J. Novak, Michigan Law and history; James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center, history; Richard Primus, Michigan Law; Stephen Sawyer, American University in Paris, history; Rebecca Scott, Michigan, Law and history; Michael Vorenberg, Brown University, history; and John Witt, Yale Law School.

The commemoration will include an exhibit of documents and artifacts at the Hatcher Graduate Library, many of which are unique to the Clements Library collections and have never before been exhibited. Outside groups and classes are encouraged to arrange a visit.

LOCATIONS: Law School, 625 S. State St.; Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor. Central Campus map: http://campusinfo.umich.edu/article/central-campus-map

WEBSITE: Schedule of events: http://www.law.umich.edu/ProclaimingEmancipation