September 2015

September 10, 2015
First Readings: The New Jim Crow Lecture

September 16, 2015
Lunch talk with Raymond Wolfe, former Jamaican Ambassador to the U.N.
The International Remembering of Atlantic Slavery

September 18, 2015
Lunch talk with Sam Jones '18 
Archiving Black Abolitionist Papers in the John Hay Library

September 18, 2015
CSSJ Student Open House & Reception 

September 29, 2015
Slavery, Incarceration, and the Making of Modern New Orleans
New Directions in the History of U.S. Slavery series
 

October 2015

October 1, 2015
Lunch talk with Prof. Geri Augusto, 2015 CSSJ Faculty Associate
The "disarray of nature": Expressive forms and symbolism in the CSSJ slave garden

October 2, 2015
Lunch talk with Prof. Keisha-Khan Perry, 2015 CSSJ Faculty Associate, and Lydia Kelow-Bennett, Ph.D. Candidate
Feminist Research, Engendering Blackness, and the Impact of Police Militarization

October 6-7, 2015
Transatlantic Legacy: Full Circle
Providence premiere of films by artist Tony Ramos

October 6, 2015
Lunch talk with Craig A. Landy, Esq.
The Topham Case and the Irish Contribution to the Antislavery Movement in New York in the early 1800s

October 15, 2015
Bearing Witness: African-American Children and the Southampton Rebellion of 1831
New Directions in the History of U.S. Slavery series

This exhibition is on display through October 31, 2015 at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, 94 Waterman Street. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9am-4:30pm.

Elena Shih, CSSJ Faculty Fellow, is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown, and former Postdoctoral Fellow in International Studies at the Watson Institute for International Studies. Shih's first book, The Price of Freedom: Moral and Political Economies of Global Human Trafficking Rescue, is based on 40 months of ethnographic participant observation on the transnational movement to combat human trafficking in China, Thailand, and the U.S. This research has received funding from the Ford Foundation, Social Science Research Council, American Sociological Association, and Fulbright Program. 

Matthew Beach is a PhD candidate in the English Department at Brown University, with research interests in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, gender and sexuality, race and body theory, and disability studies. His dissertation, "Out of Time: Sentimentality and Temporality in American Literature" reads American sentimental literature through the lens of contemporary work on temporality, affect, and futurity. The project argues that the sentimental genre prefigures and therefore has much to contribute to current theoretical debates on affective historiography, exhaustion, pain, and optimism.

Arielle Julia Brown AM '18, Graduate Fellow for the Study of the Public History of Slavery, is a cultural producer, theatre practitioner and curator. As a graduate fellow with the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and the Center for Public Humanities & Cultural Heritage, Arielle is interested in how cultural institutions and arts initiatives can inspire social justice through the presentation of work by artists from Africa and the Diaspora. Arielle is also interested in public performing arts initiatives that engage various stakeholders in local and global civic exchange. Arielle began her career over ten years ago at 7stages theatre in Atlanta, Ga. She is the founder of The Love Balm Project, a workshop series and performance based on the testimonies of women of color who have lost children to systemic violence. The Love Balm Project has been developed at cultural institutions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and in Atlanta. Some of her work with The Love Balm Project will be published in the upcoming anthology Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines in the spring of 2016. 

Tatiana Gellein MD ’16, Sc.B. ‘10, Graduate Fellow for the Study of Race and Health Inequities, is a fourth year medical student earning her MD from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, with an interest in Pediatrics and Community Health education for urban youth. She holds an Sc.B. in Human Biology, Health and Race from Brown University. Her research interests include the history of Western medicine in the United States, medical experimentation of social minorities, bioethics, and the African American experience of public health endeavors. Her most recent project, “The Personification of Dr. J Marion Sims, a Systematic Literary Review (1950 – the present)” explores modern transcriptions of the renowned nineteenth century “Father of Modern Gynecology” and his surgical discoveries on Black female slaves.

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