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How does statelessness turn people into ‘bare’ or even ‘subhuman’ life? This upcoming lecture with Nasir Uddin, argues that the shift from statelessness to ...

How did the life and work of Johannes Manissadjian, a successful scientist during the Armenian genocide, contribute to understanding the disappearance and ...

How did child labor opposition become a global movement between the 1880s and 1930s, and how do we write its history without a Western bias? Based on Nina ...

Dr. Nitin Varma will unwrap biographies of servitude, drawing upon a range of legal and ego documents from nineteenth-century northern India. Based on a ...

How did ancient slavery function outside the shadow of the Atlantic trade? While modern scholarship often uses recent history as a universal template, ancient ...

The passage of the International Labour Organization’s Forced Labour Convention (No. 29) in 1930 was a momentous event in global labor history, signaling an ...

The vogue for "ethnicity" in many fields of historical study has reified a concept for which there is little direct evidence in the historical record before ...

The lecture will discuss how the construction of open-source relational databases has altered the scholarly study of slavery. Once it was thought that there ...

How did Islamic law change the status of slave mothers and their children? While granting certain protections, such as freedom upon the owner's death and ...

What has education to do with dependency? In a famous letter, Jerome (d. 419) narrates that, in a dream vision, he was called before Christ and accused of ...