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… generously supported by the MacMillan Center. The event was organized by myself and Council on Middle East … and South Asia from the advent of Islam in the seventh century until the rise of colonialism in the late eighteenth … this beautifully. It was a true delight to host this event at Yale, and we look forward to watching this new …

… Can Never Be As it Ought to Be”     Keynote Talk at Yale, conference on Yale and Slavery .   David W. Blight   In … of migration and cultural transplantation that brought African peoples and folkways to all New World societies. … dealing with slavery in the first half of the nineteenth century so discreditable to a great people.” In this mixture …

… Modern Slavery Modern Slavery From our 2004 international conference “From Chattel Bondage to State Servitude: Slavery in the 20th Century” to our 2012 conference on “Abolition, Past and Present: Scholars, …

… is currently working on a biography of the late nineteenth-century British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes. His last book, … which was published in 2023, takes in a century of South African history through the prism of the marriage of Nelson … ‘Bureaucracy in Africa’. Until 2020, he was Professor of African Studies at Oxford University and Visiting Professor …

… Douglass Book Prize for his book,   Domingos   Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic … Carla L. Peterson for Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (Yale University Press). This year’s …

… Atlantic World from the Seventeenth to the early Twentieth Century” Lecture/Discussion Two: Slavery in Africa (TBA) … S. Klein and Stanley L. Engerman, “Long-Term Trends in African Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” Slavery … (Smallwood) Reading: Patrick Manning, Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades …

… 2014 for the joint Baltic Studies and Scandinavian Studies conference, and then again in June of this year, for a new Baltic Studies conference. But it was of course Brad Woodworth who was … Old Icelandic into Estonian of Örvar-Odds saga, a 13th-century Norse literary work about the life and deeds of the …

… Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam” Nearly half a century after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to be …

… Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam” Nearly half a century after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to be …

… present, and future. More information is available on the conference website: …