Panel 1: Intersections: Labor and Civil Rights

Sophia Z. Lee, Department of History, Yale University: "Whose Rights?: Litigating the Right to Work, 1950-1980"

Paul Frymer, Department of Politics, Princeton University: "Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party"

Commentators:

Jane Dailey, Department of History, University of Chicago

Wendell Pritchett, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Panel 2: Resurgent Conservatism

Marjorie Spruill, Department of History, University of South Carolina: "Gender and America's Right Turn: The 1977 IWY Conferences and the Polarization of American Political Culture"

Steven Teles, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University: "Transformative Bureaucracy: Lawyers, Social Movements and the Dynamics of Political Investment in Reagan's DOJ"

Commentators:

Laura Kalman, Department of History, University of California at Santa Barbara

Thomas Sugrue, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

Lunch (Keynote: William Eskridge)

Panel 3: Law, Social Movements, and State-Building in the Progressive Era

Felice Batlan, Chicago-Kent College of Law: "The Birth of Legal Aid: Knightly Attorneys and Damsels in Distress"

Ajay K. Mehrotra, Indiana University, Bloomington (Law and History): "Lawyers, Guns & Public Monies: The U.S. Treasury, World War One, and the Administration of the Modern Fiscal State"

Commentators:

Michael Katz, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

William Novak, University of Chicago/University of Michigan

Panel 4: Politics, Prisons, and Punishment

Peter Pihos, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania: "Moving MOVE: Race, Police, and the Politics of Liberalism in 1970s Philadelphia"

Joshua Dubler, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University: "After the Raid: Reshaping Religion in the Era of Carceral Control"

Commentators:

Sarah Barringer Gordon, Law School and Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

David Kairys, Temple University, Beasley School of Law

Closing Remarks and Reception