Inaugural Symposium

Harriet Tubman Institute
for Research on the Global Migrations
of African Peoples

“Slavery, Memory, Citizenship”

Assembly Hall
Founders College
York University
23-24 March 2007

"on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the enactment of the British law to abolish the slave trade"
 

News:
Congratulations to Denise Challenger. She has received a Erskine A. Peters Fellowship. As a Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Year Fellow, she will been given a stipend to complete her dissertation from August 2007 to May 2008 at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. While at Notre Dame she will also partake in bi-weekly professionalization seminars designed to better prepare her for the job market. In addition to the stipend, she will have a research and conference budget.