Coming Up at the CSSJ No Images? Click here CSSJ Commencement Newsletter Thank You! Thank you to all the Race, Memory and Memorialization presenters and participants for an important conversation about commemoration, history and memory in the present. The recording from the conference will be available shortly. We will share the link in an upcoming newsletter. We hope that you can join us at an upcoming Center event during Commencement weekend. Friday, May 25, 2018 The work of 2018 Heimark Artist in Residence, Jess Hill will discuss black womanhood in our modern reality as well as the conjuring of folk tales born during the middle passage and grown throughout slavery. Herstory will highlight the resilience of the black woman and the fantasy of her overcoming historical incarceration. Join us for the opening reception of the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice’s new exhibition, Herstory. Gallery at the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, 94 Waterman Street. Saturday, May 26, 2018 11:00am Join us for a Commencement forum with Jessica Hill, 2018 Heimark Artist in Residence. After the forum, please visit the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice to see the exhibition Herstory currently on display. IBES, Room 130, 85 Waterman Street. 12:30 pm For nearly a decade, Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III worked to help conceive, build, and launch the Smithsonian’s NMAAHC, the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, art, history, and culture. A leading scholar in American and African American history and the founding director of NMAAHC, Dr. Bunch, in conversation with Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice’s inaugural director Prof. Anthony Bogues, will discuss the experience of building a national museum that examines American history through an African American lens. IBES, Room 130, 85 Waterman Street. 1:00-4:00pm For centuries, the institution of slavery pervaded every aspect of life in America, and its reverberations are still keenly felt today. We invite you to the Center’s 19th century house for a special reception to meet our faculty, staff and students. While you are at the Center you can view the exhibit on display in our gallery, Herstory by 2018 Heimark Artist in Residence, Jess Hill, a stunning glass wall art piece Rising to Freedom and a symbolic slave garden. Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, 94 Waterman Street. CSSJ in the News A rising young academic, Dr. Elena Shih — assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University and CSSJ faculty fellow — examines complex issues surrounding women’s lives and survival. By this summer’s end, Shih will complete writing her book Manufacturing Freedom: Trafficking Rescue, Rehabilitation, and the Slave Free Good. The book examines the rise of the anti-trafficking movement from the year 2000 with the United Nations Palermo protocols to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and the corresponding U.S. Protection Act of 2000. Beyond the Center *If you would like to submit a poster for advertisement in a future CSSJ newsletter please email slaveryjustice@brown.edu, using “Ad for the next newsletter” in the subject line. All flyers must be submitted as a PDF or JPEG. Postings in the newsletter will be made at the Center’s discretion. |