2014/2015
Slaves Who Owned Slaves in Bahia, Brazil, 1800-1850
Monday, September 29, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
João José Reis, Professor of History, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Gandhi and Indenture
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Ashutosh Kumar, University of Delhi
Freetown’s Alien Children: Colonialism, Childcare and Anti-slavery in 19th century Sierra Leone
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Christine Whyte, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Reflections of a Collector of Slave Trade Materials
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Sidney Lapidus, Founder of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
“A Wild and Diversified Scenery”: Economy, Environment, and Society in Amazonia’s Second Slavery, 1835-1888
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Oscar de la Torre, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Distant Freedom: St. Helena and the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1840-1872
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Andrew Pearson, Research Associate, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, UK and Director, Pearson Archaeology Ltd.
Fighting for the Empire and Freedom: Brazilian Recruitment of Slaves During the War against Paraguay (1864-1870)
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Vitor Izecksohn, Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
First Reconstruction: The Origins of African American Politics, 1790-1860
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Van Gosse, Associate Professor of History, Franklin & Marshall College
The Galley Slave’s Backward Glance: Juan Latino’s Epic of the Battle of Lepanto
Elizabeth R. Wright, Associate Professor, University of Georgia
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Genres of Civil War Memory in Literature after Brown v. Board of Education
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Michael LeMahieu, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Pearce Center for Professional Communication at Clemson University.
Acting Boçal: Performance, Language, and Freedom in Brazil in the Age of Abolition
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Yuko Miki, Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University