2019-2020 Schedule
1619 and Beyond: Explorations in Atlantic Slavery and its American Legacy
Friday, September 27, 2019
Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor
Friday, October 18, 2019
Friday, November 15, 2019
Lecture: “Blackout: Shining a Light on Two Centuries of Forced Illiteracy in the Slave South”
Peter Wood
Professor Emeritus, Duke University
Author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1975).
Friday, January 31, 2020
Jennifer L. Morgan
Professor and Chair of Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (2014); and Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in America (2016).
Video of this talk is not available.
Friday, February 7, 2020
Lecture: “The Myth of Tignon and the Invention of New Orleans”
Jonathan M. Square
Assistant Professor for the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University.
He is a scholar of fashion and visual culture in the African Diaspora.
He is currently working on a new book entitled, “Sartorial Resistance and the Politics of Redress in the Black Atlantic.”
Video of this talk is not available.
Friday, February 21, 2020
Lecture: “Before the Human: Africans, Sovereigns & Slaves”
Herman Bennett
Professor in The Graduate Center at the City University of New York
Author of Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (2009) and Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolution, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (2003).
Video of this talk is not available.
Friday, February 28, 2020
Lecture: “The Carceral Landscape: Toward an Environmental History of Enslaved Resistance”
Walter Johnson
Winthrop Professor of History, Harvard University and Professor of African and African-American Studies
Author of Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999) and River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (2013).