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Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Fall 2013 Newsletter
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The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) is a scholarly research center with a public educational mission. Recognizing that racial and chattel slavery were central to the historical formation of the Americas, the CSSJ will create a space for the interdisciplinary study of:
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historical forms of slavery
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how the legacies of slavery shape our contemporary world
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contemporary forms of human bondage
To further this study, CSSJ will establish research programs designed to foster deeper understandings about the issues of justice, human rights, and freedom today.
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Fall 2013 Highlights
Click on each photo to learn more, and be sure to check out photos and video at the bottom of each event page.
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Ann Chinn, Middle Passages & Markers
October 9, 2013
In October we hosted a special seminar featuring Ann Chinn, Executive Director of the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project, an initiative designed to address the transatlantic slave trade and remembrance.
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Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony & Ivy
October 15, 2013
Author and historian Craig Steven Wilder joined us at the Brown bookstore for a reading from his new book, Ebony & Ivy, followed by an enthusiastic discussion. The book lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy. It is the first of its kind.
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Marian Anderson String Quartet: Songs of Freedom & the Emancipation Proclamation
October 17, 2013
The string quartet, noted for becoming the first African American ensemble in history to win a classical music competition, performed at the Granoff Center in October, along with spoken word artists Nealy Williams, '14, Carl Hancock Rux, 2011 Visiting Lecturer with TAPS, and Ifa Bayeza, Sr. Visiting Lecturer and Distinguished Artist-in-Residence in The Dept. of Africana Studies. Moderated by Don King.
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CSSJ News!
CSSJ Director Anthony Bogues on Radio China.
Professor Anthony Bogues took part in a panel discussion on the Legacy of Nelson Mandela on Radio China this month. Hear the full program here.
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Ships of Bondage Exhibition travels to Cape Town.
In November, Professor Anthony Bogues, Center Director, and Shana Weinberg, Center Manager, traveled to South Africa to bring the Ships of Bondage exhibition to Cape Town's Slave Lodge, part of Iziko museums of South Africa. They also led a public program with youth from the townships of Khayelitsha and Blikkiesdorp. The exhibit will be on display through February 2014 and then will become a permanent exhibition at the Slave Lodge.
View Professor Bogues's exhibit opening talk "Practices of Freedom" here.
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Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle Film Screenings coming to CSSJ.
To introduce four documentaries with riveting new footage illustrating the history of civil rights in America, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice will offer a series of moderated screenings on campus every Tuesday from the end of January to the end of February 2014. The Created Equal film set is made possible through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of its Bridging Cultures initiative, in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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Now accepting applications:
Ruth J. Simmons Post-Doctoral Fellow in Slavery and Justice.
CSSJ invites applications for a one-year position (2014-2015) as the Ruth J. Simmons Post-Doctoral Fellow in Slavery and Justice. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in any humanities or social science discipline (or will obtain a Ph.D. by June 2014) and work on questions concerning the historical formations of slavery in global or comparative terms; issues concerning contemporary forms of indentured servitude; or philosophical, historical, and theoretical questions concerning slavery, justice, and freedom. Deadline is February 15, 2014. Applicants should apply online at: apply.interfolio.com/23067
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Coming this spring...
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Tuesdays in January/February (1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/25) 6pm, Film Series: Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle
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Thursday, February 6, Challenging White Privilege: A Community Conversation with the Mount Hope Neighborhood Association
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February 2014, Curator's Meeting on International Slavery
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Thursday, February 13, Craig Steven Wilder: Ebony and Ivy book reading and signing
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014 Debra L. Lee Lecture on Slavery and Justice: Professor Deborah Willis, Visualizing Freedom: Photography & Emancipation
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Thursday, April 3, Delores Walters, Women’s Resistance: What the Legacy of Margaret Garner Teaches Us Today
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Tuesday, April 29, Ann Chinn, Director of the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project
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May 2014, Symposium on Racial Legacies of Slavery and the American Criminal Justice System
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May 2014, Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrié in Residence
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Other campus opportunities
We want to let you know about other great opportunities happening around campus, like this one from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop.
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The Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop.
Callaloo, a journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters based at Texas A&M University, will be hosting its 2014 Creative Writing Workshop June 1-14, 2014, with the Dept. of Africana Studies at Brown. Applications must be submitted online at callaloo.expressacademic.
org no later than January 31, 2014.
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Thanks for all your support!
The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice would not be possible without your support. Thank you all.
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