2012/2013
“The Journey of Thomás de la Torre, a Slave in Spanish Florida”
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Alejandra Dubcovsky, Assistant Professor of History, Yale University
“Sisterhood across the Color Line? Audre Lorde, German Women, and Feminist Solidarities”
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Katharina Gerund, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
“American to the Backbone: A Discussion with the Author”
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Christopher L. Webber, Independent Scholar
“The Pre-Antebellum Emergence of the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland”
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Veta Tucker, Director of the Kutsche Office of Local History, Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, Grand Valley State University
“Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination”
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Celeste-Marie Bernier, Professor of African American Studies, University of Nottingham
“Methodological Problems in the Study of Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, and Modern Slavery: A Discussion”
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Claude d’Estree, Director of International Human Rights Degree Program and Director of Human Trafficking Clinic, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
“’No Right of Citizenship’: The 1863 Emancipation Acts of the Loyal Cherokee Council”
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Rachel Purvis, Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow, Yale University AND Melinda Miller is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University and an Assistant Professor of Economics at the U.S. Naval Academy
“Canada’s Promised Land? Finding African New Englanders in Nova Scotia, 1755-1775”
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Karolyn Smardz Frost, Bicentennial Visiting Professor for Canadian Studies, Yale University
“Yesterday and Today: Oral Sources and the Legacy of African Slavery, the Slave Trade and Abolition”
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Alice Bellagamba, Associate Professor, University of Milan-Bicocca
“When the Abolitionists First Came to Washington”
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Jefferson Morley, Author of Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
The “Savagery and Treachery” of the Pilgrims and Puritans in 17th Century New England
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Scott Tilden, Independent Scholar
“The FBI’s Local White Slavery Corps: The Fight Against Sex Trafficking and the Growth of the Associative State, 1910-1919”
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Jessica Pliley, Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Fellow, Gilder Lehrman Center, Assistant Professor of History, Texas State University
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Karolyn Smardz Frost, Bicentennial Visiting Professor for Canadian Studies at Yale
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization on the Edge of Empire
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Wendy Warren, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University