2010/2011
Exporting Ideals and Forcing Freedom: Reconsidering the West Africa Squadron
Monday, September 20, 2010 12:00 PM
Richard Anderson, Ph.D. student in History, Yale University
A More Perfect Likeness: Frederick Douglass and the Image of the Nation
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:00 PM
Laura Wexler, Professor of American Studies, Women’s Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Yale University
“Strange Fruit:” Lynching in the (African) American Cultural Imagination, 1890–1940
Monday, October 18, 2010 12:00 PM
Carmen Dexl, Ph.D. Student in American Studies, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
To Indent Oneself: Contracts and Black Indentured Servitude in the Illinois Territory
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:00 PM
Allison Gorsuch, PhD Student in History, Yale University
Calling Out Liberty: The Stono Slave Rebellion and the Universal Struggle for Human Rights
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 12:00 PM
Jack Shuler, Assistant Professor of English, Denison University
Slavery, Evil Deeds, and Re-thinking the Past: A Basis for Discussion
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 12:00 PM
James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus, University of York
The Elusive Red Atlantic: Landscapes of Memory, Forgetting, and Native American Slavery in Bermuda after the Colonial “Indian Wars”
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:00 PM
Christine DeLucia, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies, Yale University
Prize Negroes in the Age of Sail
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:00 PM
Charles Foy, Assistant Professor of Early American and Atlantic History, Eastern Illinois University
American Uprising: Slavery and Revolt in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
Monday, January 31, 2011 12:00 PM
Daniel Rasmussen
Manifest Dilemmas: American Slavery versus Atlantic Freedom in the Age of Industrial Revolution
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 12:00 PM
Steven Heath Mitton, Assistant Professor of History, Utah State University
A New Website for the Study of Slave Societies in Brazil, Colombia and Cuba
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 12:00 PM
Jane Landers, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Legacies of Slavery and Reconstruction in the Wilson Administration
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 12:00 PM
Samuel L. Schaffer, Yale University
African Kingdoms, Black Republics and Free Black Towns in the Iberian Atlantic World
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 12:00 PM
Jane Landers, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Blood of Our Fathers: The Military, Manhood, and Citizenship in Black Protest, 1831-1865
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:00 PM
Christopher J. Bonner, Ph.D. Student in History, Yale University
Ideology and British Anti-Slavery: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Imperialism, c. 1776-1901
Monday, April 18, 2011 12:00 PM
Richard Huzzey, Lecturer in Modern British History, University of Plymouth
Slavery at the Museum: The Russian Case in Comparative Perspective
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 12:00 PM
Elisabeth Anstett, Permanent Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique