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Thursday, September 18, 2008, 4:30 p.m.
The Hemmingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of Law, New York Law School
Gordon-Reed discusses her work on Thomas Jefferson and slavery.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
Thursday, September 25, 2008, 4:30 p.m.
The Origins of Racism in the West
Part of the Racism, Xenophobia, and Slavery before the Modern Era Lecture Series
Benjamin H. Isaac, Lessing Professor of Ancient History, University of Tel Aviv.
A member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and recipient of the Israel Prize for 2008, Benjamin Isaac is a historian of Hellenistic, Roman, and Early Byzantine history who specializes in social and political history. His current research focuses on racism in Greco-Roman Antiquity. His last book, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity (Princeton Univ. Press, 2004), has already become a classic. It has challenged the definition of racism in view of Greco-Roman cultural discourse and has revealed the roots and origins of modern racism. Prof. Isaac is also the author of The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East (1990) and The Greek Settlements in Thrace until the Macedonian Conquest (1986).
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
Co-sponsored with the Hellenic Studies Program, the European Studies Council, and the Yale Department of History
Thursday, October 16, 2008. 5:00 p.m.
Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, A Book Talk and Discussion with the AuthorChristopher L. Brown, Professor of History at Columbia University
Brown discusses his Frederick Douglass Prize-winning book Moral Capital.
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT
Thursday, October 23, 2008. 4:30 p.m.
"Physiognomy, the Eyes of Slaves, and Medieval Scientific Racism"
Part of the Racism, Xenophobia, and Slavery before the Modern Era Lecture Series
Steven A. Epstein, Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of Medieval History, University of Kansas
Steven A. Epstein is a historian of medieval Europe, who specializes in economic and social history. His has worked on city government in the Middle Ages, slavery and labor in Italy, and family life in urban medieval Italy and the Mediterranean. His book Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy (Cornell Univ. Press, 2001) reveals the development and dynamics of the institution of slavery in a multi-cultural medieval society, and questions the relation between slavery and the concepts of racism and color. His other publications include: Wills and wealth in medieval Genoa, 1150-1250 (Harvard Univ. Press, 1984), Wage labor & guilds in medieval Europe (The Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1991), Genoa and the Genoese 958-1528 (The Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1996) a 1997 Choice outstanding academic book, and Purity lost : transgressing boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000-1400 (The Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies in Historical and Political Science, 2006).
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
Co-sponsored with the European Studies Council and the Yale Department of History
Wednesday, October 29, 2008. 4:30 p.m.
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Drew Faust, President and Lincoln Professor of History, Harvard University
Drew Gilpin Faust, historian and President of Harvard University, and David W. Blight, Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center, have a conversation about Faust’s recent book, The Republic of Suffering, which looks at the impact of the Civil War’s enormous death toll on the lives of 19th-century Americans.
Reception to follow.
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8, 2008
Slavery and the Slave Trades in the Indian Ocean and Arab Worlds: Global Connections and Disconnections
Tenth Annual International Conference.
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
Monday, November 10, 2008, 4:30 p.m.
Accepting the Unacceptable: Legitimating and Criticizing Slavery before the Abolitionist Era
Part of the Racism, Xenophobia, and Slavery before the Modern Era Lecture Series
Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, Professor of Modern History, Paris Institute of Political Studies (École doctorale, Sciences Po)
Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau is a specialist of the history of slavery. His book, Les traites négrières. Essai d’histoire globale (Gallimard, 2004, currently being translated English), contextualized the transatlantic slave trade in a global historiographical perspective in view of the black slave trade in Africa from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. This book won the French Senate history book award for 2005, the French Academy essay award for 2005, and the Chateaubriand la Vallée au Loups History award for 2005. Prof. Pétré-Grenouilleau is also the author of L’argent de la traite. Milieu négrier, capitalisme et développement: un modèle (1996), Les négoces maritimes français XVIIe-XXe siècle (1997), and Saint-Simon (1760-1825). L’utopie ou la raison en actes (2001).
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
Co-sponsored with the European Studies Council and the Yale Department of History
Sunday, December 14, 2008. 2:00 p.m.
A Civil War Christmas
Sunday Symposium at the Long Wharf Theatre with David Blight
GLC Director David Blight leads a symposium following the matinee production of Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel’s new musical A Civil War Christmas. For information on the play and on obtaining tickets visit http://www.longwharf.org/season_08-09.html.
Long Wharf Theatre, 222 Sargent Drive, New Haven, CT
Monday, March 2, 2009. 4:30 p.m.
Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Richard S. Newman, Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology
Richard S. Newman discusses his recent biography of Richard Allen, a former slave who settled in Philadelphia during the nation's founding era and established the African Methodist Episcopal church, one of the first independent black churches in the western world. Newman will explore how Allen helped define the meaning of black protest and leadership, shaping visions of equality in Jefferson's time that we are still trying to realize in our time.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
Wednesday, March 25, 2009. 4:30 p.m.
The Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave
William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Regina E. Mason, University of California at Berkeley
William L. Andrews and Regina E. Mason discuss their recent edition of the Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. Andrews, a historian, and Mason, Grimes's great-great-great-granddaughter, will share their extensive historical and genealogical research, which uncovered pages from an original Grimes family Bible, transcriptions of the 1824 correspondence that set the terms for the author's self-purchase in Connecticut (nine years after his escape from Savannah, Georgia), and many other striking images that invoke the life and times of William Grimes.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
Wednesday, April 1, 2009. 4:00 p.m.
Slavery and the Artistic Imagination
The 2009 David Brion Davis Lectures
Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University; E.L. Doctorow, New York University; Caryl Phillips, Yale University; and Natasha Trethewey, Emory University present a panel discussion on their poetry and literature.
Location TBD
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