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Winter 2014 Newsletter

 
 

As the semester comes to a close, we wish to thank you all for your continued support of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Have a happy holiday season!

From all of us at CSSJ,
Tony, Roque, Shana, and Ruth

 
 
 

Table of Contents

  • Fall 2014 happenings
  • Coming in 2015
  • In the news
  • Opportunities
 
 
 

Fall 2014 Happenings:

 
 

1764: Brown's Founding in a Global Context: Prof. Craig Wilder

 
 

Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Dienke Hondius

 
 

Prof. João Reis: Slaves Who Owned Slaves in 19th Century Brazil

 
 

Panels: Museums, Slavery, and Post-Colonialism

 
 

Unveiling of Slavery Memorial

 
 

Lunch talk with Freedom Summer students

 
 

Book Talk & Reception: From Revolution in the Tropics to Imagined Landscapes: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié

 
 
 

Property Tax as a Legacy of Cotton, Slavery, and Segregation: Larry Menefee and Prof. Mills Thornton

 
 

President Emerita Ruth J. Simmons Keynote Lecture & CSSJ Building Dedication

 
 

50th Anniversary of Brown-Tougaloo College Partnership

 
 

Marian Anderson String Quartet Concert

 
 

Poetry reading & lunch talk by Prof. Brenda Marie Osbey

 
 
 

Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Patrick Sylvain

 
 

Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Christine Walker

 
 

Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Oscar de la Torre

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Coming in 2015:


January 29, 2015
Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Tatiana Seijas

January 29, 2015
The Book of Negroes Screening and Conversation with Aunjanue Ellis '92 in partnership with the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America

February 13, 2015
Seminar with Prof. Ted Maris-Wolf: “A Skewed Triangle: New York’s Nineteenth-century Slave Trade"
Jointly Hosted by CSSJ and the History Department’s 19th Century US History Workshop

February 19, 2015
Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Beatriz Mamigonian

February 26-27, 2014
Conference on Race in America Today in partnership with the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America

February 2015
Black History Month Film Series in partnership with the Providence Public Library

March 3, 2015
Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Calvin Warren

March 6-7, 2015
Symposium: Decolonizing the Racialized Female Subject: Self-Making Under Empire

March 12, 2015
2015 Annual Debra L. Lee Lecture:
Katherine Chon '02, Co-Founder & President Emerita, Polaris Project

March 13, 2015
Seminar with Prof. Mekala Audain: "Mexican Canaan: The Southern Underground Railroad and Free Black Immigration to Mexico, 1804-1867"
Jointly Hosted by CSSJ and the History Department’s 19th Century US History Workshop

April 2, 2015
Evening talk with Prof. Manuel Barcia

 April 7, 2015
Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Sean Moore

April 10, 2015
Seminar with Prof. Adam Rothman: “Beyond Freedom's Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery”
Jointly Hosted by CSSJ and the History Department’s 19th Century US History Workshop

April 16, 2015
Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Elizabeth Cazden

April 29, 2015
Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Alejandra Dubcovsky

May 5, 2015
The Mapmaker's Children Book Talk with Author Sarah McCoy

May 7, 2015
Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Manisha Sinha

NEH Changing America Exhibition comes to Brown

Heimark Artists-in-Residence: Marian Anderson String Quartet

 

In the news:

 
 

What Ivy League ties to slavery teach about redemption

Read the full article in the Boston Globe.

 
 
 

Museum to examine role of church in slavery

Episcopal Diocese approves proposal to construct museum at Cathedral of St. John

Read the full article in the Brown Daily Herald.

 
 
 

Shuttered US cathedral may become slave trade museum as Episcopal Church seeks to unbury past

Read the full article in the Times Colonist.

 
 

Structural bias poses obstacles to faculty of color

Read the full article in the Brown Daily Herald.

 
 
 

Teach-in explores Ferguson aftermath

Read the full article in the Brown Daily Herald

 

While open racial discrimination is no longer legal in the United States, the country is still plagued by more subtle forms of racism.

 
 

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Brown-Tougaloo

Read the full article in News from Brown

 
 

Dedicated: Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice

Read the full article in News from Brown

 
 
 

New slavery memorial aims to spark reflection

Read the full article in the Brown Daily Herald

 

The memorial would be doing good work if it encourages passersby to reflect on the injustices of today as well as yesterday.

 
 

‘A memorial is also about things to do’

Read the full article in News from Brown

 
 
 

Opportunities

 
 
 

Ruth J. Simmons Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Study of Slavery and Justice

Location: Providence, RI
Closes: Feb 16, 2015

Search Opens December 15. Deadline is February 16, 2015.

Please include a cover letter, current CV, a writing sample, and three letters of reference. 

 
 
 

Study Abroad in Amsterdam

Decolonizing Europe: History, Ideas and Praxis (in collaboration with VU University Amsterdam)

Decolonizing Europe is offered jointly by the Global History, Heritage and Memory programme at VU University Amsterdam and CSSJ.