2018-2019
Fugitivity & Abolition
Summer Term
June 11
Paper Workshop: “Naming Plantations” by Paul Musselwhite
Fall Term
September 20
Richard Blackett (Vanderbilt)
“The Captives’ Quest for Freedom: Fugitive and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law”
November 7
Manish Sinha (University of Connecticut)
“The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition” (cosponsored with Vermont Humanities Council)
November 8
Celso Castilho (Vanderbilt University)
“The Black Press and Trans-Atlantic Literary Genres in Brazil”
Winter Term
February 5
Lunchtime Workshop on Yesenia Baragan (Dartmouth Society of Fellows), “Final Abolition and the Problem of Autonomy in the Colombian Black Pacific”
Spring Term
April 18
Matthew Leigh (Oxford University)
“From Quintilian to Dred Scott: An Issue in the Jurisprudence of Slavery” (Classics Benefactors Lecture)
April 15
Simon Newman (University of Glasgow)
“Freedom Bound: Telling the Stories of Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Scotland”
April 25
John Bodel (Brown)
“Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideologies: Orlando Patterson and M.I. Finley among the Dons”
May 23
Reading Group discussion of Jeff Eden, Slavery and Empire in Central Asia (Cambridge, 2018)