The Center for the Humanities | Conferences in the Humanities
Middle Passages: Histories & Poetics
May 6th-7th, 2010
Free and Open to the Public,preregistration required
The Middle Passage has long been a trope for unspeakable terror. But a recent generation of scholars has been keen on discerning how the Middle Passage as social experience defined lives, histories and contemporary social selves. Middle Passages: Histories & Poetics brings together some of the most prominent writers on the subject to present papers and participate in discussion. Keynote speakers will be Eve Troutt-Powell (University of Pennsylvania) and Saidiya Hartman (Columbia University). Participants include: Vincent Brown (Harvard University), Yvette T. Christianse (Fordham), Stephanie Smallwood (University of Washington), James Sweet (University of Wisconsin), and Eddie Wong (Rutgers University).
Co-sponsored by IRADAC, Ph.D. Program in History, NYU's Humanities Initiative: Working Group on Slavery & Freedom, and Small Axe
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