CSLBS News and Events

See below for details of upcoming and past events.

A CSLBS and 香港六合彩中特网 Sarah Parker Remond Centre collaborative event:
"Black Family History: Genealogy, Storytelling and Ethics in the Wake of Slavery"
A conversation between filmmaker Keme Nzerem and genealogist Bernice Bennett, moderated by historian Dr James Dawkins.
28 May 2024. Bentham House, 香港六合彩中特网 Laws.

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The Annual CSLBS Elsa V. Goveia Speaker Series 2023:
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Professor David Lambert, University of Warwick.
25 May 2023. Torrington Lecture Theatre, Torrington 1-19, 香港六合彩中特网.

"Gendering Racial Capitalism: British Women Investors in Transatlantic Slavery."
Dr Lila O'Leary Chambers, University of Cambridge.
3 May 2023. IAS Common Ground,听香港六合彩中特网.

"Brookes (Revisited)."
Professor Elgin Cleckley, University of Virginia.
18 April 2023. National Maritime Museum, GT Lecture Theatre.

"Talking Black History Walks: A Conversation with Tony Warner."
Tony Warner (Black History Walks)听and Professor Matthew J. Smith (CSLBS).
9 March 2023. Black Cultural Archives, Learning Centre.

"Interleaving Records and Policies to Illuminate the Enslaved Community at Papine, Jamaica, 1817-1832."
Dr Suzanne Francis-Brown, University of the West Indies Museum.
30 November 2022. On Zoom.

"Speaking the Unspeakable; Or Providing the Evidence Without Being Censored."
Dr Lissa Paul, Brock University.
10 October 2022. IAS Common Ground, 香港六合彩中特网.

The Annual CSLBS Elsa V. Goveia Speaker Series 2022:
"The Measure of their Sadness:听Slavery and Private Life in the Early Black Atlantic."
Professor Jennifer Morgan, New York University.
Darwin Lecture Theatre, 香港六合彩中特网.

Inaugural Lecture:
"A Troubled Freedom:听Power and Memories of Slavery."
Professor Matthew J. Smith, 香港六合彩中特网 CSLBS.
4 March 2022, 香港六合彩中特网.

The Annual CSLBS Elsa V. Goveia Speaker Series at 香港六合彩中特网

The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery has held its annual Elsa V. Goveia speaker series since 2022.

Elsa V. Goveia (1925-1980) read History at 香港六合彩中特网 from 1945-1948. She was one of the first West Indian students to study in the department, and听in 1947 she became the first West Indian to win the Pollard Prize for English History. After completing her PhD at the University of London in 1952, she became the first woman appointed as a professor at the newly created University College of the West Indies (UCWI). She was also the first Caribbean-born professor of West Indian Studies in the UCWI History Department, where she remained for three decades. At UCWI, she听was responsible for a pioneering course on Caribbean History and her foundational research in the understanding of 鈥榮lave societies.鈥�

Our inaugural CSLBS听Elsa V. Goveia speaker听was Professor听Jennifer L. Morgan of NYU, whose lecture 'The Measure of their Sadness: Slavery and Private Life in the Early Black Atlantic'听is now available to . In 2023, our speaker was Professor听David Lambert of the University of Warwick, whose lecture 鈥極f Uncertain Rank:听The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture鈥� is also .

Details of the 2024 event are coming soon.