2019/2020

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!

Technologies of Labor Coercion in the 17th and 18th Century Chesapeake

Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - Lorena Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, retired

The Tie that Binds: Enslaved and Free Baptists in the Heart of the Alabama Black Belt

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - Susan Walker, United States Magistrate Judge, Middle District of Alabama

All This May Appear to You a Fable, But It Is Never the Less True’: The Transatlantic Origins of African-American Emigration to Haiti (1775-1840) 

Wednesday, October 09, 2019 - Wes Alcenat, Fordham University

West Africa and the French Caribbean: Studying Slavery and the Slave Trade in the French Atlantic

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - Hilary Jones, Florida International University

The Pistol and the Whip: The Antebellum Roots of Gun Rights Ideology

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - Saul Cornell,  Fordham University

Hello from the Inside: Race, Gender, and Unfree Labor with the Transnationally-Situated Prison Call Centre Industry

Wednesday, January 29, 2020 -  Stephanie Redden, GLC Postdoctoral Associate

The Balance of Freedom: Abolishing Property Rights in Slaves during and after the US Civil War

Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - Amanda Kleintop, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

The Diversification of the Hipster: Recalling the Black Origins of Hipness in Contemporary Music Performances

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - Lena Gotteswinter, Universität Regensburg, Germany

DIGITAL GI(RL)S: Mapping Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - Dr. Nazera Sadiq Wright, University of Kentucky

Co-curating Free Spaces and Places with Descendants of Historic Black Settlements

Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - Andrea Roberts, Texas A&M University