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2019-2020 Schedule

1619 and Beyond: Explorations in Atlantic Slavery and its American Legacy


Friday, September 27, 2019

4:30-6:00PM
168 Dulles
 
Lecture: “Africa and the Origins of Atlantic Slaving”
Lisa Lindsay
Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor
Chair, Department of History
University of North Carolina
Author of Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth Century Odyssey from America to Africa (2017); Working Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria (2003)
 
 

Friday, October 18, 2019

4:30-6:00PM
168 Dulles
 
Lecture: “The First Atlantic Revolution:  Islam, Abolition and Republic in West Africa, circa 1776”
Rudolph “Butch” Ware 
Associate Professor, Department of History
University of California Santa Barbara
Author of The Walking Qur’an:  Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge and History in West Africa (2014)
 

Friday, November 15, 2019

4:30-6:00PM
168 Dulles

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

4:30-6:00PM
Location: Dulles Hall, Room 168
 
Lecture: “Mad Women on the Slave Ship; Reproducing Racial Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic”
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

4:30-6:00PM
Location: Dulles Hall, Room 168

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

4:00-5:30PM
Location: Thompson Library, Room 202

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

4:30-6:00PM
Location: Dulles Hall, Room 168

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).