2009/2010
Dey Take Indian For Slave: Visions of Enslavement in Marcus Rediker’s The Slave Ship and Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger
Monday, October 5, 2009 12:00 PM
Ned Blackhawk, Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University
Keeping up a distinction of Colour: Gender, Race, and Identity in the British Caribbean and the Metropolis during the Eighteenth Century
Monday, October 12, 2009 12:00 PM
Brooke Newman, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen
Southerners on the Run: Emancipation, Desertion, and the Collapse of the Old South
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:00 PM
Yael Sternhell, Gilder Lehrman Center Postdoctoral Fellow
The Moral Economy of Popular British Anti-Slavery
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:00 PM
Richard Huzzey, Postdoctoral Fellow, British Studies, Yale University
Asiatic Cholera in America: The Deadly Consequences of Emancipation in the United States
Monday, November 16, 2009 12:00 PM
Jim Downs, Assistant Professor of History, Connecticut College
Globalization, Slavery, and the African Diaspora in Arabia in the Age of Empire
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 12:00 PM
Matthew S. Hopper, Assistant Professor of History, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Emancipation and Economic Development in Alabama Reconstruction
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:00 PM
Michael Fitzgerald, Professor of History, Saint Olaf College
The Convalescent West: Redemption and Healing in the Post-Civil War
Monday, February 8, 2010 12:00 PM
William Deverell
“Flowers, Ballots and Bullets: the Movement for the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil”
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Angela Alonzo, Visiting Fellow, Council of Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University; 2009-10 Guggenheim Fellow
Liberty or Death: Abolitionists and Slave Suicide
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:00 PM
Richard Bell, Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland
Corbin’s Hypothesis: Drowning, Lifesaving, and the Emergence of the Anglo-American Abolition Movement in the 1780s
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:00 PM
Amanda Bowie Moniz, Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow, Yale University
Benguela and South Atlantic Slavery, 1700-1850
Monday, April 12, 2010 12:00 PM
Mariana Candido, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University
Go Back to Russia! Go Back to Africa!: Circassian Beauties and American Racial Formation
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:00 PM
Sarah Lewis, Doctoral Candidate in the History of Art Department, Yale University
Mesurado Beach: A Small African Slave Trade Factory and Its Global Legacy Today
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:00 PM
Emma Christopher