2008/2009

The Hemmingses of Monticello

Thursday September 18, 2008 4:30pm

Annette Gorodon-Reed, Professor of Law, New York Law School

The Origins of Racism in the West

Thursday September 25, 2008 4:30pm

Benjamin H. Isaac, Lessing Professor of Ancient History, University of Tel Aviv

Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author

Thursday October 16, 2008 4:30pm

Christopher Leslie Brown, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University

The Fate, Identities, and Significance of Africans Liberated from the Transatlantic Slave Trade: an Overview based on www.slavevoyages.org

Wednesday October 22, 2008 4:15pm

David Eltis, Emory University

Physiognomy, the Eyes of Slaves, and Medieval Scientific Racism

Thursday October 23, 2008 4:30pm

Steven A. Epstein, Ahmanson-Murphey Distinguished Professor of Medieval History, University of Kansas

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author, Drew Gilpin Faust

October 29, 2008 4:30pm

President and Lincoln Professor of History at Harvard University

Accepting the Unacceptable: Legitimizing and Criticizing Slavery before the Abolitionist Era

Monday November 10, 2008, 4:30pm

Olivier Ptr-Grenouilleau, Professor of Modern History, Paris Institute of Political Studies

A Civil War Christmas: Sunday Symposium at the Long Wharf Theater with David Blight

Sunday December 14, 2008 2:00pm

David W. Blight and Paula Vogel, Yale University

Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author

Monday March 2, 2009 4:30pm

Richard S. Newman, Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology

The History and Art of Capoeira: an Interactive Workshop

Saturday March 21, 2009 10:00am

T.J. Desch-Obi and Efraim Silva

The Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave

Wednesday March 25, 2009 4:30pm

William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Regina E. Mason, University of California at Berkeley