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 (SML) See map
120 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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.

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Roundtable participants:

  • Courtney Bellizzi, Museum Specialist and Technician, National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • 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
  • Jatin Haria, Executive Director, Glasgow Council for Racial Equality and Recognition
  • Megan Jeffreys, Cornell University, Freedom on the Move
  • 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

Select Websites

Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights 

Freedom on the Move 

National Museum of African American History and Culture 

Pitt Rivers Museum 

Runaway New England 

Runaway Slaves in Britain: bondage, freedom and race in the eighteenth century 

Yale Center for British Art

 

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THE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED - Please indicate any dietary restrictions on the registration page
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Funded by the AHRC Network Connecting Digital Histories of Fugitive Slaves

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