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The legacy of slavery is a crucial social issue in some, if not all, Malagasy societies. To understand why this is the case, I argue that we need to analyze ...

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 ...

In his presentation, Jay Geller will attend to the ascription (and manufacture) of animality that enacted the subordination or marginalization of “the Jew” and ...

In this lecture I will analyse whether Jesus of Nazareth, his family, and close friends and disciples were slave owners. Most scholars now agree that the ...

Everyone is welcome to join this public lecture online via zoom! The abstract is due any time soon.

This lecture examines the ways in which Christianity came to define the debate over slavery and freedom – and the nature of the free black subject – in the ...

How did enslaved Black people in Sevilla imagine freedom and what strategies did they deploy to obtain it? The talk explores the collective and fractured ...

How did late antique households influence wider social organization and the Roman state? They served as microcosms of society, shaping social hierarchies and ...

Old Goa developed as one of the major port cities of the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century, as the Portuguese attempted to control maritime trade ...