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Harvard and Slavery, A Presentation of Student Research

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Please join us for a public presentation of findings by student researchers from the Harvard and Slavery Seminar. Presenters: Jake Ascher ’19 on Harvard’s Ceremonial Silver Julie Ngauv ’20 on The Perkins Family Legacy Drew Mammel ’21 on Slavery and...

Global History Lunch Talk: Felipe Alfonso, The "Slave Economy in Campinas: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Long 19th Century. A Proposal for Expanding the Concept of Second Slavery."

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"The Slave Economy in Campinas: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Long 19th Century. A Proposal for Expanding the Concept of Second Slavery." Felipe Alfonso, WIGH Global Fellow; PhD Candidate, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (no precirculated paper, just an...

Radcliffe: Universities and Slavery: Bound by History

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Sponsor: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Speaker(s): Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies Daniel Carpenter, director of the...

Native Bound-Unbound: Archiving Indigenous Slavery

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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Estevan Rael-Galvéz, Native Bound-Unbound Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez will present Native Bound Unbound, a digital humanities project that illuminates the history of Native and Indigenous enslavement across the...

Workshop on Slavery and the Universities: Benedict Carton (George Mason University)

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Charles Warren Workshop on Slavery and the Universities From the Enslaved Children of George Mason to Black Lives Next Door: Imprints of Racial Slavery and Higher Learning in the (Global) South Zoom registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting...

“The Price of Knowledge: English Universities and Slavery”

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Speaker: Natalie Zacek (University of Manchester) To register for Zoom information, please click here. Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Slavery and the Universities”

Warren Center: Conference: The Scope of Slavery.

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The Scope of Slavery: Enduring Geographies of American Bondage The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History What is the proper scope for analyses of slavery? Within the United States, the institution has been viewed as a distinctly regional...

Radcliffe: Universities and Slavery: Bound by History

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Slavery was intertwined with the founding and growth of Harvard. The relationship was neither accidental nor exceptional. This daylong conference explores the connections between universities and the institution of slavery—across the United States and...

Telling the Truth about All This: Reckoning with Slavery and Its Legacies at Harvard and Beyond

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An all-day conference titled "Telling the Truth about All This: Reckoning with Slavery and Its Legacies at Harvard and Beyond" will be held in-person and virtually. The conference examines the historical ties to slavery in universities and the substantial...

MHS: Palatable Slavery: Food, Race, and Freedom in the British Atlantic, 1620-1838

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Heather Sanford, Brown University This project uses food in the British Atlantic to understand ideas about the body, race, and freedom. In New England, the Caribbean, and the Gold Coast of Africa, supplies of foodstuffs sustained colonization and slavery...

Slavery and Mastery in the South Sea Armada

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Presenter: Tamara Walker (University of Toronto) Talk Title: Slavery and Mastery in the South Sea Armada Sponsored by: Early Modern Events at the Latin American Workshop Location: CGIS, S450 Date: 04/10/19 Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm This seminar features a pre...

Liberty, Power, and Slavery: The Origins of Our Times

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“Liberty, Power, and Slavery: The Origins of Our Times” Tâmis Parron, Assistant Professor of History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Commentator: Osama Siddiqui, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History, Harvard University...