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Schedule of Events
Fall 2022 Schedule
Friday, September 16
Xavier Lee, “African Witnessing and the Event of Capture”
Respondent: Sandra Greene, Stephen ’59 and Madeline ’60 Anbinder Professor of African History, Cornell University
Respondent: Marisa Fuentes, Associate Professor of History and Women's & Gender Studies; and Presidential Term Chair in African American History, Rutgers University
Friday, October 14
Anjuli Webster, “The Indian Atlantic: Slavery in Southern Mozambique, 1800-1850”
Mariana Candido, “Women in West Central Africa: Economic Power and Early Atlantic Contact, 1500-1650”
Respondent: Roquinaldo Ferreira, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, University of Pennslyvania
Respondent: Elizabeth MacGonagle, Associate Professor of History, University of Kansas
Friday, November 11
Maria Montalvo, “An Act of Sale: Making Enslaved Property in Antebellum New Orleans”
Tiffany Player, “‘What the New Negro Has Done’: The Negro Building and the Making of the Ex-Slave Public”
Respondent: Amrita Myers, Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of of History and Gender Studies, Indiana University
Friday, December 9
Lia T. Bascomb, “For the Benefit of Society: Migrant Land Ownership and Negotiated Belonging”
Adriana Chira, “Rights by Possession: Post-Emancipation Land Politics in Cuba, 1880s-1930s”
Respondent: Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Respondent: Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology & Coordinator of Social Science & the Caribbean Archive, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
Spring 2023 Schedule
Friday, February 10
Meina Yates-Richard, “Policing ‘Black Noise’ from the Civil Rights Era through Black Lives Matter”
Tiara Jackson, “Black Femme Remains: Holy Hunger”
Respondent: Alexander G. Weheliye, Malcolm S. Forbes Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Respondent: fahima ife, Associate Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Friday, March 17
Bayo Holsey, “The Oprah Affect: White Abolitionism, Neoliberal Compassion, and the Humanitarian Frontier”
Respondent: Jemima Pierre, Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies, UCLA
Friday, April 14
Harcourt Fuller, “‘The Great Negro Town’: Historical and Contemporary Resonances of (Old) Nanny Town as a Geo-Political, Military, and Cultural Safe Space for Maroon Resistance Against British Slavery and its Afterlives in Jamaica”
Aisha Finch, “Black Feminist Fugitivity and the Historical Memory of Marroonage/Cimarronaje in Latin America”
Respondent: Amy Johnson, Assistant Provost for Immersion and Experiential Learning, Faculty Head of Warren College, and Professor of the Practice in the College of Arts & Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Respondent: Laurie Lambert, Associate Professor of African & African American Studies, Fordham University
Friday, May 12
Kyrah Daniels, “An Assembly of 21 Spirit Nations: The Pan-Africanist Pantheon of Haitian Vodou's African Lwa”
Ras Michael Brown, “Put On A Hunter’s Shirt: Violence, Protection, and Spiritual Hunting in Bolsas de Mandinga, 1660s-1740s”
Respondent: Tracey Hucks, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies and Suzanne Young Murray Professor (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study), Harvard University
