2008/2009

The Confederate “Cornerstone” as International Sensation

Monday September 22, 2008 12:00pm

Robert E. Bonner, External Fellow, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute

 

Black Voices and White Scripts: Education, Colonization and the Problems of Authenticity

Wednesday October 22, 2008 12:00pm

Anna Mae Duane, Assistant Professor of English, University of Connecticut, Torrington and Stors

 

Songs of Freedom: Jamaican Popular Music as Slave Narrative

Monday November 17, 2008 12:00pm

Garnette Cadogan

 

Searching for Order in the “White Atlantic:” Racism, Nationalism, and the Interracial Relationships in the United States and Germany, 1877-1917

Thursday December 4, 2008 12:00pm

Holger Dressler, America-Institute, Ludwig-Maxamilians-University, Munich Germany

 

Mgr. Camboni’s Struggle for Slavery and Abolition

Monday December 8, 2008 12:00pm

Sindani Kiangu, Associate Professor of African History, University of Kinshasa, R.B.C

 

On the Side of Righteousness: Women, the Church, and Abolition in the U.S

Wednesday January 28, 2009 12:00pm

Stacey Robertson, Chair of the History Department, Bradley University

 

The Unsettling Mortgage Story You Haven’t Heard: Raising Cash and Credit with Slave Collateral

Wednesday February 25, 2009 12:00pm

Bonnie Martin, Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow, Department of History, Yale University

 

Slavery and Speculation in Flush Times: The Heart of Jacksonian America

Monday March 30, 2009 12:00pm

Joshua Rothman, Associate Professor of History, University of Alabama

 

From Sin to Social Gospel: The Antislavery Origins of Social Christianity

Monday April 27, 2009 12:00pm

Molly Oshatz, Assitant Professor of History, Florida State University