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- Property & Personhood: Fictions of Slave Character in Early America
Jeannine DeLombard, Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto and GLC Fellow
Taking early African-American gallows narratives as a point of departure, DeLombard considers how portrayals of black criminality troubled notions of not only the slave's "mixed character" as property and person, but the very concept of legal personhood. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Becoming Free in the Cotton South: A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Susan O’Donovan, Associate Professor of History at Harvard University
Susan O’Donovan discusses her new book, an intimate investigation of slavery, freedom, and the always contingent and often constrained passages that lay in between. Focusing on that corner of Georgia once described by W. E. B. Du Bois as the richest of slave kingdoms, she will pay special attention to the gendered dimensions of slavery and how men and women’s experiences in bondage helped call into being a deeply — and differently — gendered system of free labor.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- The Slave Ship: A Human History: A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Marcus Rediker, Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh
Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven, CT
- Long Time Gone: The Memory of Slavery in the South
Edward Ball, GLC Fellow and author of the National Book Award-winning book Slaves in the Family
This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
Christopher Miller, Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of French and African and Afro-American Studies at Yale
Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven, CT
Co-sponsored by the GLC, the French Department, and the African Studies Program at Yale
- Doing Public History in the Real World: A Panel and Discussion
Featuring, Peter Almond, Film writer and Producer, Beacon Pictures; Alice Greenwald, Executive Vice President and Director, National September 11th Memorial and Museum; and Katherine Kane, Executive Director, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. Moderated by David W. Blight, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center.
Co-sponsored with the Initiative on Public Humanities.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT
- Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Christopher L. Brown, Visiting Professor of History at Columbia University
Brown discusses his Frederick Douglass Prize-winning book Moral Capital.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- The Nation the Slaveholders Made: Proslavery Americanism in Comparative Perspective
Robert Bonner, Fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Bonner examines a multi-faceted "proslavery Americanism" that sought to nationalize Southern slaveholding within the late antebellum U.S. before providing a platform for the Confederate departure of the early 1860s. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- On Slavery’s Borders: Small Slaveholding in Antebellum Missouri
Diane Mutti-Burke, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and GLC Fellow
Mutti-Burke explores the diversity found within Southern plantations by illuminating how region and the size of slaveholding altered slavery. Bring your lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Middle Passage: Conversations on Black Religion in the American Diaspora
A major interdisciplinary conference on Black religion in the American Diaspora with a focus the Middle Passage as a framework to examine the current ways in which Black religion is studied, taught, and lived in contemporary life.
Yale University Divinity School
For more information visit
www.yale.edu/divinity/middlepassage.
- Moving Midway: A Film Screening and Discussion with the Director
Award-winning Southern film critic Godfrey Cheshire uses the relocation of his family’s North Carolina plantation as the occasion to examine the Southern plantation in American history and culture, including its impact on areas as diverse as music, movies, and contemporary race relations. Part present-tense family drama, part cultural essay, the film also involves an ongoing dialogue between Cheshire and Dr. Robert Hinton, an African-American history professor whose grandfather was born a slave at Midway Plantation. Refreshments to precede film screening. Co-sponsored with the Yale History Department. Please RSVP to gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu.
Rosenfeld Hall, Room 101, Corner of Temple and Grove Streets, New Haven, CT (use Temple Street Side Entrance)
- Fourth Annual David Brion Davis Lectures: Slavery and the Artistic Imagination
A panel discussion featuring Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Trethewey, and Caryl Phillips
- The Lost Worlds of Venture Smith
John Wood Sweet, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and GLC Fellow
Sweet uses the dramatic story of Venture Smith, an enslaved African in New England who earned his freedom, to anchor an analysis of the colonial dynamics that brought together — and kept apart — a series of disparate regions and peoples in the increasingly global early modern world.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Slavery on Shifting Grounds: The Prohibition of the African Slave Trade and Brazilian Slavery in the 19th Century
Beatriz Mamigonian, Professor of History, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, and GLC Fellow
Mamigonian explores the impact of the abolition of the African slave trade on the legitimacy of Brazilian slavery in the nineteenth century. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Closing of the Slave Trades: Transatlantic Perspectives, An International Symposium
Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
A conference co-sponsored with the Queens University School of History and Anthropology. Conference panelists will contemplate trans-Atlantic perspectives on this renewed examination of the beginning of the end of the slave trade’s dominance of the Atlantic World. Special attention will be paid to the influence of Irish antislavery during this transforming epoch. For further information visit the symposium website at For further information visit the symposium website at www.yale.edu/glc/queens/.
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