2011/2012
The Police des Noirs on the Ground
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:00 PM
Anne Ruderman, PhD Student, Department of History, Yale University
Slavery, Redemption, and Moral Capital in 17th-Century Ukraine
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:00 PM
Christoph Witzenrath, University of Aberdeen
I Want To Be An Angel: Contraband Education during the Civil War
Monday, November 7, 2011 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Eduardo Vivanco, PhD Student, Yale University School of Architecture
Honorable Men: Isaac Bolton, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the Murder of James McMillan
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 12:00 PM
Steven Deyle, Associate Professor, University of Houston
Odalisque: Beauty, Sex, and Slavery
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:00 PM
Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton University
Emancipated into the State: American Reconstruction and the Problem of Occupation
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:00 PM
Greg Downs, Associate Professor of History, City College of New York
Amistad Remembered: History, Memory and the Making of the Abolitionist Past
Monday, January 30, 2012 12:00 PM
Robert Wolff, Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University
Gulliver’s Travels: Slavery, Political Economy and Empire ca. 1715-ca.1725
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 11:30 AM
Steven Pincus, Bradford Durfee Professor of History, Yale University
Figuring the Figurehead in Benito Cereno: The True Crime of Melville’s “True Crime Fiction”
Monday, February 6, 2012 12:00 PM
Gabrielle Guise, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, Yale University
Set Them In a Blaze: John Quincy Adams and the Fight Against the Slave Power
Monday, February 13, 2012 12:00 PM
Charles Edel, Professor of Strategy & Policy at the U.S. Naval War College
Look Behind the Label: Rhetorics and Narratives of Contemporary Slavery
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 12:00 PM
Samuel Martinez, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Connecticut
A New South and a New City: Negotiating Race, Constructing Region, and Building Soul City, North Carolina, 1969-1980
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:00 PM
Betsy Beasley, Ph.D. Student in American Studies, Yale University
Urban Encounters: Struggles for Space and Place in Post-Civil War Southern Cities
Monday, March 26, 2012 12:00 PM
Caitlin Verboon, Ph.D. Student, Department of History , Yale University
The Problem of Yankeeland: Southern Images of the North, 1865-1920
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 12:00 PM
Sarah K. Bowman, Ph.D. Student, Department of History , Yale University
After the Underground Railroad: African Americans Returning from Canada and the Forgotten History of Transnational Reconstruction
Monday, April 9, 2012 12:00 PM
Adam Arenson, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas-El Paso
Causes Lost and Found: Memory and the Making of a Segregationist Movement
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:00 PM
Jason Morgan Ward, Assistant Professor of History, Mississippi State University
Children as Commodities: Child Slavery in Colonial Benin, 1890-1960
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 12:00 PM
Audra Diptee, Assistant Professor, Carleton University
Matta’s Day in Court: Black Female Subjects and Anglo-Spanish Struggles over Slave Trade Abolition
Monday, April 23, 2012 12:00 PM
Rosanne Adderley, Associate Professor of History, Tulane University
The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 12:00 PM
Zoe Trodd, Faculty Fellow, Departments of English and African American Studies, Columbia University