2010/2011 Lectures

Slave Breeding and Free Love: An Antebellum Argument over Slavery, Capitalism, and Personhood

Monday, September 27, 2010. 4:30 pm

Amy Dru Stanley, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago

Location: 320 York Street, HGS 211

David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City

Tuesday, November 9, 2010. 4:30 pm

Graham Russell Gao Hodges, the George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies at Colgate University

Location: 34 Hillhouse Ave., Luce Hall, Room 202

Memoir of a Gulag Actress: A Book Talk and Discussion with Yasha Klots and Ross Ufberg

Monday, November 15, 2010.  4:30 pm

Yasha Klots, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures,  Yale University and Ross Ufberg, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University

Location: Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street

Delia’s Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-century America: A Conversation with the Author, Molly Rogers

Wednesday, February 23, 2011.  4:30 pm

Molly Rogers, Independent Author

Location: Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street, Room 211

The Women Jefferson Loved: A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author

Wednesday, April 6, 2011. 4:30 pm

Virginia Scharff, Professor and Director, Center for the Southwest Department of History, University of New Mexico

Location: Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street, Room 211