2018/2019

The GLC Brown Bag Lunch series consists of informal presentations by GLC fellows and affiliated scholars. The presentations are held in 230 Prospect Street, Room 101, from 12pm until about 1:15pm. Bring your lunch and we’ll provide dessert!


Viral Networks: The Parallel Histories of American Trade and Yellow Fever

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 - Julia Mansfield, Yale University

Georg Jellinek and the Religious Foundations for the first Declaration of Human Rights

Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - Annabelle Meier, Bavarian American Academy

Sustaining Slavery: Plantation Provisioning and the Politics of Health in the British Caribbean

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - Nicholas Crawford Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse

Field Ghosts:How the American Farmworker Fought Migrant Slavery, then Lost to H2A, 1975-1990

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - Karin Zipf, East Carolina University

An Afro-Brazilian Atlantic: Slavery and Anglo-American Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - Isadora Moura Mota,  University of Miami

Race, Place, and Expertise: Working in the St. Vincent Botanic Garden, 1765-1822

Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - J’Nese Williams, Vanderbilt University

Ni Esclave, Ni Nègre: Arabic’s Contested Borders

Wednesday, December 19, 2018 - Gretchen Head, Yale-National University of Singapore College

The 13th Amendment and the History of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - Luis C.deBaca, Open Society Foundations Fellow; Director, Justice and Security Programs for Chambers Lopez Strategies

Hidden in Plain Sight: Slavery and Suppression in Antebellum American Art

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - Rachel Stephens,  University of Alabama

The Unknown Interpreters of the Amistad

Monday, March 25, 2019 - Jeanette Zaragoza De Leon, Yale Divinity School

Ghost Stories about the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - Ellen Gruber Garvey,  New Jersey City University

Faith, Nature, and the Legacies of South Carolina Methodist Camp Meetings

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - Holly Lynton, Bard College