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Events Organized by the BCDSS
See below a list of all events organized by members of the BCDSS.
Longue Dureé Approaches to the Global Plantation Complex
Hybrid: Niebuhrstraße 5 ...
10:00 AM - 06:30 PM
Hybrid Workshop:
What can we learn by rethinking plantations beyond the Atlantic world?
From the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, plantations in the ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Randy M. Browne
Online event via Zoom
05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Beyond chattel slavery, who really built the global plantation complex?
This lecture takes a global, longue durée approach, challenging the assumption that ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Alan Rice
HYBRID event: On site ...
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
How have African Atlantic artists transformed our understanding of slavery’s legacy?
Drawing on Rice’s three decades of experience as an academic and curator, ...
Dies Academicus Lecture by Christian Mader
Uni Main Building
02:15 PM - 03:00 PM
Is there a material signature for slavery and colonialism? The West African coast, with its European forts and castles that were involved in the transatlantic ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Marçal de Menezes Paredes
HYBRID event: On site ...
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
What does 50 years of Angolan independence really mean? This lecture revisits Angola’s complex history beyond nationalist or Western narratives, exploring how ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Evelyn Hu-DeHart
HYBRID event: On site ...
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
What happens when 125,000 Chinese indentured men and enslaved African men and women work side by side on Cuban sugar plantations in the late nineteenth ...