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New Perspectives on Slaveries in the African World
MAR 06, 2015 | 9:00 AM TO 4:00 PM
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WHERE:
The Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue
ROOM:
9100: Skylight Room
WHEN:
March 06, 2015: 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
CONTACT INFO:
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/arc
ADMISSION:
Free
Description
BREAKFAST (9:00-10:00 AM) WELCOME (9:45 AM) Helena Rosenblatt, Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center, CUNY PANEL 1 (10:00-12:00 PM) The Graduate Center, CUNY, Skylight Room Economics of Slaveries and their Reverberations Historians have for decades probed the economies of slavery in and outside of Africa and through new databases the quantification of this commerce has enriched both recent scholarship and teaching by providing accessible data spanning centuries, geographies, and key historic and societal patterns. Though this composite data is not without serious limitations, the datasets do help us to frame and figure out the economics of slaveries and how to grapple with their reverberations into our present. This panel features CATHERINE HALL (University of London), WARREN WHATLEY (University of Michigan), and JOSEPH INIKORI (University of Rochester) to discuss their ongoing work on the economics of slavery and their reverberations in the form of reparations and slave-ownership in the shaping of modern societies. Moderated by Kwasi Konadu, ARC Fellow/CUNY Professor.
LUNCHEON (12:00-1:00 PM)
PANEL 2 (12:00-2:00 PM) The Graduate Center, CUNY, Skylight Room Theory and Story in the Narration of Slaveries This panel explores the place of theory and storytelling in the (re)presentation of slaveries in the African world. As the regime of quantification has given some ground to the stories of Africans or their worldwide diasporic counterparts in the scholarship on global slavery, the theorization of historical periods and processes therein has also been advanced. The panelists JAMES H. SWEET (University of Wisconsin-Madison), HERMAN BENNETT (The Graduate Center, CUNY, History Program), and KWASI KONADU (ARC Fellow/CUNY Professor) discuss these matters through their own work and against the current scholarship and its future directions. Moderated by C. Daniel Dawson, New York University/Columbia University.
PANEL 3 (2:00-4:00 PM) The Graduate Center, CUNY, Skylight Room Atlantic and Indian Ocean Slaveries in Conversation The closing session features BOUBACAR BARRY (Chiekh Anta Diop University, Senegal), PIER LARSON (The Johns Hopkins University), and PATRICK HARRIES (University of Basel) in conversation about their own work and the emergent perspectives on and shape of scholarship on Atlantic and Indian Ocean slaveries. This panel also offers an important opportunity for scholars of these oceanic worlds to engage each other. Moderated by Megan Vaughan, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
- See more at: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programming/Calendar/Detail?id=29915#sthash.Ny5F0Zlb.dpuf
New Perspectives on Slaveries in the African World
MAR 06, 2015 | 9:00 AM TO 4:00 PM
- See more at: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programming/Calendar/Detail?id=29915#sthash.Ny5F0Zlb.dpufMAR 06, 2015 | 9:00 AM TO 4:00 PM
Details
WHERE:
The Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue
ROOM:
9100: Skylight Room
WHEN:
March 06, 2015: 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
CONTACT INFO:
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/arc
ADMISSION:
Free
Description
BREAKFAST (9:00-10:00 AM) WELCOME (9:45 AM) Helena Rosenblatt, Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center, CUNY PANEL 1 (10:00-12:00 PM) The Graduate Center, CUNY, Skylight Room Economics of Slaveries and their Reverberations Historians have for decades probed the economies of slavery in and outside of Africa and through new databases the quantification of this commerce has enriched both recent scholarship and teaching by providing accessible data spanning centuries, geographies, and key historic and societal patterns. Though this composite data is not without serious limitations, the datasets do help us to frame and figure out the economics of slaveries and how to grapple with their reverberations into our present. This panel features CATHERINE HALL (University of London), WARREN WHATLEY (University of Michigan), and JOSEPH INIKORI (University of Rochester) to discuss their ongoing work on the economics of slavery and their reverberations in the form of reparations and slave-ownership in the shaping of modern societies. Moderated by Kwasi Konadu, ARC Fellow/CUNY Professor.
LUNCHEON (12:00-1:00 PM)
PANEL 2 (12:00-2:00 PM) The Graduate Center, CUNY, Skylight Room Theory and Story in the Narration of Slaveries This panel explores the place of theory and storytelling in the (re)presentation of slaveries in the African world. As the regime of quantification has given some ground to the stories of Africans or their worldwide diasporic counterparts in the scholarship on global slavery, the theorization of historical periods and processes therein has also been advanced. The panelists JAMES H. SWEET (University of Wisconsin-Madison), HERMAN BENNETT (The Graduate Center, CUNY, History Program), and KWASI KONADU (ARC Fellow/CUNY Professor) discuss these matters through their own work and against the current scholarship and its future directions. Moderated by C. Daniel Dawson, New York University/Columbia University.
PANEL 3 (2:00-4:00 PM) The Graduate Center, CUNY, Skylight Room Atlantic and Indian Ocean Slaveries in Conversation The closing session features BOUBACAR BARRY (Chiekh Anta Diop University, Senegal), PIER LARSON (The Johns Hopkins University), and PATRICK HARRIES (University of Basel) in conversation about their own work and the emergent perspectives on and shape of scholarship on Atlantic and Indian Ocean slaveries. This panel also offers an important opportunity for scholars of these oceanic worlds to engage each other. Moderated by Megan Vaughan, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
- See more at: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programming/Calendar/Detail?id=29915#sthash.Ny5F0Zlb.dpuf
New Perspectives on Slaveries in the African World
MAR 06, 2015 | 9:00 AM TO 4:00 PM
- See more at: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programming/Calendar/Detail?id=29915#sthash.Ny5F0Zlb.dpuf
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