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- On Being Black in Cuba: Before and After the Revolution
Carlos Moore, Activist and Scholar
Location: 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Luce Hall, Room 202
Born the son of Jamaican sugar workers on a US-owned sugar plantation in eastern Cuba, Carlos Moore was part of the US Black radical movement in the 1960s and its counterpart in Cuba. In the 1960s, he was jailed twice by Cuban state security for publicly and privately protesting the actions of racist revolutionaries and the efforts of the Cuban government to cover up rather than take on continuing racism and discrimination. Moore discusses these events and his personal experiences with such figures as Robert Williams and Fidel Castro. Book signing to follow. This event is co-sponsored with the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies.
- Revitalizing America: Maroon Politics and the Origins of the Civil War
Iver Bernstein, Washington University in St. Louis
Location: 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Luce Hall, Room 203
Maroon Politics--the often improvised and fleeting alliances
among slaves, fugitive slaves and quasi-free blacks, and white
collaborators--was rarely named as such and yet was ubiquitous in the
American federal republic in the years before 1861. Indeed, in ways
historians have scarcely considered, it was a defining condition of that
regime. By foregrounding the expansion of this political domain, with its
hemispheric resonances and potential for annihilating violence, as a
historical problem of the first order, this talk recasts the governing
narrative of the coming and significance of the American Civil War.
- A Conversation with Edmund Morgan & Annette Gordon-Reed
Edmund Morgan, Sterling Prof Emeritus History, Yale University
Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize Winner and Prof of Law, NY Law School
Location: 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Luce Hall Auditorium
Acclaimed historians Annette Gordon-Reed and Edmund Morgan discuss Morgan's new book of essays, American Heroes, and reflect upon his extensive career. Introduced by David W. Blight. Reception to follow.
- The Legacy of Lincoln: A Colloquium
Location: 53 Wall Street, Whitney Humanities Center
This colloquium on the legacies of Abraham Lincoln features two panel discussions with historians David W. Blight, David Bromwich, Stephen Skowronek, Caleb Smith, Steven Smith, and Michael Warner. The afternoon event is followed by a reception at 6:00 pm. This event is co-sponsored with the Yale University Department of English.
- "Dey Take Indian For Slave": Visions of Enslavement in Marcus Rediker's The Slave Ship and Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger
Ned Blackhawk, Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University
Location: 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
While dramatically altering understandings of the American colonial experience, studies of slavery in the Americas often overlook the place of American Indians in the Atlantic World, and in this presentation Professor Ned Blackhawk examines the triangle trade within two prize-winning narratives of Atlantic slavery. This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch, and we'll provide the drinks & dessert.
- "Keeping up a distinction of Colour": Gender, Race, and Identity in the British Caribbean and the Metropolis during the Eighteenth Century
Brooke Newman, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen
Location: 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Luce Hall, Room 103
Brooke Newman explores how West Indian identities -- white, black, and mixed-race -- were defined and contested during the eighteenth century, both by West Indians themselves and by metropolitan Britons who imagined, critiqued, and caricatured the inhabitants of the sugar islands. More than anything else in these slave societies, Newman demonstrates, gender relations and racial mixture undermined white West Indian attempts at collective self-definition. This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch, and we'll provide the drinks & dessert.
- Southerners on the Run: Emancipation, Desertion, and the Collapse of the Old South
Yael Sternhell, Gilder Lehrman Center Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
The Civil War thrust on the roads of the Confederacy multitudes of truants: slaves fleeing their masters, soldiers deserting the army, and refugees retreating in the face of enemy invasion. Flight was a rare common experience in the Confederate South, which cut across race, class, and gender lines. In this talk, Sternhell examines how runaways of all hues shaped the downfall of slavery and the rise of black freedom and how antebellum hierarchies were reconfigured through the physical act of motion. This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch, and we'll provide the drinks & dessert.
- John Brown, Slavery, and the Legacies of Revolutionary Violence in Our Own Time: A Conference Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Harpers Ferry Raid
Gilder Lehrman Center's 11th Annual International Conference
- Comparative Slavery Studies and Autobiography: The Case of Russian Serf Narratives
John MacKay, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Yale University
Location: 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Luce Hall, Room 202
The study of autobiographies by bondspeople worldwide -- a study that
builds upon the pioneering work done on US slave narratives -- might
help us to better understand the changing kinds of subjectivity
generated by systems of unfree labor in the modern period, and the
material conditions in which they emerged. In the case of Russian
serfdom, John MacKay hopes to show that a specific imaginative
relationship of serfs both to the territory of (imperial) Russia and
to the Russian state may differentiate serf subjectivities, as
articulated in autobiographical form, from those revealed in slave
narratives from the US or the Caribbean.
- The Moral Economy of Popular British Anti-Slavery
Richard Huzzey, Postdoctoral Associate, British Studies Department, Yale University
Location: 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Did altruism or interest create massive public support for British abolitionism? Richard Huzzey offers some new thoughts on what ordinary Britons believed they were doing by publicly protesting against slavery or the slave trade. Huzzey investigates the theology of popular mobilization to suggest how eighteenth and nineteenth-century providentialism shaped anti-slavery. This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch, and we'll provide the drinks and dessert.
- Diagnosing Freedom: The Deadly Consequences of Emancipation
Jim Downs, Assistant Professor of History, Connecticut College
Location: 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Luce Hall, Room 103
Jim Downs seeks to examine the ways in which newly freed slaves suffered and died at the moment of emancipation. Forced to live in overcrowded and unsanitary camps during the Civil War, freed slaves starved; became infected with smallpox and cholera; and fell victim to exposure. Their experience challenges the traditional story of emancipation as triumphant, and reveals the complicated medical and health problems that accompanied the destruction of slavery. This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch and we'll provide the drinks & dessert. This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch and we'll provide the drinks & dessert.
- The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Vincent Brown, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History, Harvard University
Location: Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211, 320 York Street
What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? In The Reaper's Garden, Vincent Brown asks this question about Jamaica, the staggeringly profitable hub of the British Empire in America--and a human catastrophe. Popularly known as the grave of the Europeans, it was just as deadly for Africans and their descendants. Yet among the survivors, the dead remained both a vital presence and a social force. Join author Vincent Brown as he discusses his forthcoming work.
- Globalization, Slavery, and the African Diaspora in Arabia in the Age of Empire
Matthew S. Hopper, Assistant Professor of History, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Location: 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Matthew S. Hopper examines the global dimensions of the slave trade from East Africa to Arabia in the late 19th and early 20th century with a particular focus on the role of African labor in the Gulf pearl and date industries, which fed growing markets in Europe and North America. This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch and we'll provide the drinks & dessert.
- Slavery by Another Name: A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Douglas Blackmon, Atlanta Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal
Location: Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211, 320 York Street
Based on a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Slavery by Another Name unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude. Join Douglas Blackmon as he discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning work.
Video Lecture
- The Ku Klux Klan in Alabama: A Social Profile
Michael Fitzgerald, Professor of History, Saint Olaf College
Location: 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Michael Fitzgerald presents an analysis of the social background and possible motivations of six hundred accused Alabama Klansmen during Reconstruction.
This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch and we'll provide the drinks & dessert.
- The Convalescent West: Redemption and Healing in the Post-Civil War
William Deverell, 2009-2010 Beinecke Senior Fellow in Western Americana
Location: 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Bill Deverell discusses his in-progress book exploring the convalescent and redemptive landscapes of the post-Civil War American West. This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch, and we'll provide the drinks & dessert.
- "Flowers, Ballots and Bullets: the Movement for the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil"
Angela Alonzo, Visiting Fellow, Council of Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale
University; 2009-10 Guggenheim Fellow
Location: Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
Co-sponsored by the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
- Liberty or Death: Abolitionists and Slave Suicide
Richard Bell, Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland
Location: 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Richard Bell seeks to document the emergence of the trope of the suicidal slave in abolitionist moral suasion literature after 1820. Specifically, he will contrast 1830s depictions of suicides as forms of passive resistance to the emerging trope of active, violent resistance in later slave narratives and post-1840 activist rhetoric and analyze and explain this dramatic change over time.
This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch and we'll provide the drinks & dessert.
- The Past's Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities
A Yale University Graduate Student Symposium
Location: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street, New Haven
How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the "medium is the message," then how does the message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and convenience, what concerns have been overlooked? Sponsored in part by the Gilder Lehrman Center. Visit http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp/ for program details and to register.
- Corbin's Hypothesis: Drowning, Lifesaving, and the Emergence of the
Anglo-American Abolition Movement in the 1780s
Amanda Bowie Moniz, Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow, Yale University
Location: 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
In 1789, Englishman Henry Corbin credited the British Parliament's nascent efforts to end the slave trade to the Royal Humane Society, a group established in 1774 and dedicated to the recovery of drowning victims. In Corbin's view, abolitionism grew from efforts to save people from watery graves. Amanda Moniz probes whether there was indeed any connection between the lifesaving cause and the advent of the abolition movement.
This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch and we'll provide the drinks & dessert.
- Benguela and South Atlantic Slavery, 1700-1850
Mariana Candido, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University
Location: 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Mariana Candido examines the foundations of an Atlantic community in Benguela and its hinterland. In her talk, Mariana Candido will explore the emergence of Benguela as an important slave port during the first half of the eighteenth century and focus on the experience of the Atlantic creoles in the Benguela region, including the formation of families and the establishment of social networks throughout the period.
This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch and we'll provide the drinks & dessert.
- Inter-Genealogies: Circassian Beauties and American Racial Formation
Sarah Lewis, Doctoral Candidate in the History of Art Department, Yale University
Location: 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
This talk charts the ironic trajectory of the Circassian beauty phenomenon, the magnum afro-coiffed and widely popular performers who debuted on American stages months after the end of the Civil War as ostensible representations of -- it may be difficult to imagine now -- white racial purity. These women purportedly hailed from "noble," "brave" Circassia, cast as the "purest" of all in the Northern Caucasus mountain area where German physiologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1762-1840) claimed one could locate the origins of the white race. As if a harbinger of what was to come, one performer, "Zumigo" was of African descent. What does it mean that an aesthetic that we commonly, if reductively, associate with black racial authenticity and black empowerment was once associated an ostensible display of white racial purity during America's foundational period of racial upheaval?
This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch, and we'll provide the drinks & dessert.
- Mesurado Beach: A Small African Slave Trade Factory and Its Global Legacy Today
Emma Christopher, Gilder Lehrman Center Fellow
Location: 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
In July 1813 Britain's Royal Navy raided an illegal slave trading factory in what is today Liberia, scattering its inhabitants around the globe. Two hundred and thirty three slaves were delivered to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to begin lives as 'recaptives'; two hundred and ninety five who had already been put aboard a slave ship were delivered to the market place at Havana, Cuba; an unknown number fled into the bush. Meanwhile the two British owners of the factory were shipped to Australia as convicts, and the American owner escaped justice and continued to trade in Cuba. Emma Christopher will look at the history of these events and then discuss the global legacy today through the process of tracing the descendents of those held in the factory in July 1813. This lecture is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch and we'll provide the drinks & dessert.
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