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Seminars 2005/2006 |
"Autobiography and Memory:
Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, the African"
Paul E. Lovejoy FRSC
Distinguished Research Professor
Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History
York University
Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Room: 305 Founders College (Senior Common Room), York University
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Read paper
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‘A Stranger in a Strange
Land’:
Re-Conceptualizing the Presence of foreign-born
Nationals in Nineteenth-Century Haiti
Using the Port-au-Prince Marriage Registries’
Thorald Burnham
Ph.D. Candidate
York University
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2005
Room: 2183 Vari Hall, History Seminar Room, York University
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
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"Indian Ocean Middle Passages: The Dhow Slave Trade"
Professor Edward A. Alpers
Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles
Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: 2183 Vari Hall (History Seminar Room)
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"Public monuments and private memories: the
slave route in Ouidah"
Ana Lucia Araújo
Ph.D. Candidate
Université Laval
Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Room: 305 Founders College (Senior Common Room), York University
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
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"Ransoming in 19th Century West Africa"
Jennifer Lofkrantz
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History
York University
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2005
Room: 305 Founders, Senior Common Room, York University
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
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"Don’t know much about history: Beyond
language in antebellum African American correspondence"
Gerard Van Herk
Visiting Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Ottawa
Date: Thursday, November 24, 2005
Room: 305 Founders, Senior Common Room, York University
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
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"Benguela: An Atlantic Port of the Slave Trade"
Mariana P. Candido
Ph.D. Candidate
York University
Date: Monday, January 23, 2006
Room:
Faculty and Staff Lounge (History/Anthropology), Vari Hall, York
University
Time: 4:00-6:00pm |
TUESDAY,
JANUARY 31ST, 12:30-2:30
FOUNDERS COLLEGE, BRIAN CRAGG CINEMA (ROOM 211)
Ibrahim Hamza
"A Study of the Influence of slaves in tax gathering in Kano Emirate"
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“The Day of Jubilee is Come”: Isaac
Anderson and Rebellion in Sierra Leone.
Cassandra Pybus
Professor
University of Sydney
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Room: 2183 Vari Hall (Department of History), York University
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
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