2018/2019
The GLC Brown Bag Lunch series consists of informal presentations by GLC fellows and affiliated scholars. The presentations are held in 230 Prospect Street, Room 101, from 12pm until about 1:15pm. Bring your lunch and we’ll provide dessert!
Viral Networks: The Parallel Histories of American Trade and Yellow Fever
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 - Julia Mansfield, Yale University
Georg Jellinek and the Religious Foundations for the first Declaration of Human Rights
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - Annabelle Meier, Bavarian American Academy
Sustaining Slavery: Plantation Provisioning and the Politics of Health in the British Caribbean
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - Nicholas Crawford , Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
Field Ghosts:How the American Farmworker Fought Migrant Slavery, then Lost to H2A, 1975-1990
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - Karin Zipf, East Carolina University
An Afro-Brazilian Atlantic: Slavery and Anglo-American Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - Isadora Moura Mota, University of Miami
Race, Place, and Expertise: Working in the St. Vincent Botanic Garden, 1765-1822
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - J’Nese Williams, Vanderbilt University
Ni Esclave, Ni Nègre: Arabic’s Contested Borders
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 - Gretchen Head, Yale-National University of Singapore College
The 13th Amendment and the History of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - Luis C.deBaca, Open Society Foundations Fellow; Director, Justice and Security Programs for Chambers Lopez Strategies
Hidden in Plain Sight: Slavery and Suppression in Antebellum American Art
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - Rachel Stephens, University of Alabama
The Unknown Interpreters of the Amistad
Monday, March 25, 2019 - Jeanette Zaragoza De Leon, Yale Divinity School
Ghost Stories about the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - Ellen Gruber Garvey, New Jersey City University
Faith, Nature, and the Legacies of South Carolina Methodist Camp Meetings
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - Holly Lynton, Bard College