GLC: Joe Yannielli, “The Mendi Mission”
GLC Brown Bag: Joe Yannielli, “The Mendi Mission”
GLC Brown Bag: Joe Yannielli, “The Mendi Mission”
Center for the Study of Representative Institutions Conference: “Andrew Jackson at 250: Revisiting Race, Politics, and Culture in the Age of Jacksonian ‘Democracy’ ”
Whitney Humanities Center
RSAW: Anne Eller (Asst. Prof., History, Yale), “Dominica’s Salvation: Colonial Policy, Taxes, and the Debate of the Future of Small Islands after Slavery”
GLC Brown Bag: Jen Manion, “Policing Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Act and the Rise of Anti Cross-Dressing Laws”
Ed Ayers Book Talk: 5pm; location TBD
The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America (WW Norton, October 2017)
RSAW: Nancy van Deusen (Professor of History, Queen’s University), “In the ‘Tethered Shadow’: Native American Bondage as a Preamble to African Slavery”
GLC 19th Annual Conference:
Disunion in Civil War America: Parallels for Today?
Friday and Saturday, November 3-4, 2017
Luce Hall Auditorium, MacMillan Center, Yale University
RSAW: Marisa Fuentes (Presidential Term Chair in African American History, Rutgers University), “Refuse Bodies, Disposable Lives: The Status of ‘Human’ in the Atlantic Slave Trade”
GLC Brown Bag: Sasha Turner, “Slavery, Emotions, and Gendered Power”
GLC Brown Bag: Gunther Peck, “The Shadow of White Slavery: Race, Empire, and History in Contemporary Campaigns to Abolish Human Trafficking”