The Fugitive Digital: Using Digital Scholarship on Slave Resistance for Teaching, Activism and Research
Event time: Saturday, October 26, 2019 - 10:00am to 2:00pm
Location:Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street, New Haven, CT06511
Event description:Organized by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Yale Center for British Art, this panel and workshop is geared toward K–12 educators, students, activists, and faculty, and focuses on accessing digital primary sources on fugitives from slavery.
Organized by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Yale Center for British Art, this panel and workshop is geared toward K–12 educators, students, activists, and faculty, and focuses on accessing digital primary sources on fugitives from slavery.
Roundtable participants:
- Edward Baptist, Professor of History at Cornell University, Project leader, Freedom on the Move
- Paul Gardullo, Supervisory Museum Curator and Director of the Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Amalia Levi, Archivist in Barbados, founder of The HeritEdge Connection
- Marenka Thompson-Odlum, Research Assistant at Pitt Rivers Museum
- Simon Newman, Professor of American History, University of Glasgow
- Christine Whyte, Lecturer in Global History, University of Glasgow
- Joe Yannielli, Lecturer in History, Aston University
- Zandra Yeaman, Glasgow Council for Racial Equality and Recognition, Virtual Museum of Slavery and Empire
THE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED - Please indicate any dietary restrictions on this page bellow
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Funded by the AHRC Network Connecting Digital Histories of Fugitive Slaves
