The Center for African American History at Northwestern University presents:
A Symposium on Slavery, Governance and Race in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Date: April 19-21, 2013
Location: Hilton Orrington Hotel, Evanston, Illinois
This two day symposium will be together scholars working on questions of race and racialization in Colonial Latin America, Africa, and the Atlantic World.
FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013, 5:00PM
KEYNOTE ADDRESS • Irene Silverblatt • Duke University
“The Great Delusion: Race-thinking, Governance and the Colonial Origins of Modernity”
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2013, 9:00AM-4:30PM
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Sherwin K. Bryant • Northwestern University
Mariana Candido • Princeton University
Karoline Cook • University of Illinois-Urbana
Susan Deans-Smith • University of Texas-Austin
Regina Garafe • Northwestern University
Karen Graubart • University of Notre Dame
Mark Hauser • Northwestern University
Kristin Huffine • Northern Illinois University
Sylvester Johnson • Northwestern University
Laura Leon Llerena • Northwestern University
Anna More • University of California-Los Angeles
Rachel Sarah O’Toole • University of California-Irvine
Rudolph Butch Ware • University of Michigan
Nancy van Deusen • Queens University, Ontario
SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2013, 5:00PM
CONCLUDING ADDRESS • Barnor Hesse • Northwestern University
“Racialized Early Modernity: Colonial Constituent Power and Assemblages of Race”
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
All lectures, panels, and receptions are free and open to the public, RSVP recommended. Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 2 to Marshanda Smith at caah@northwestern.edu or visit our website to register http://caah.northwestern.edu.
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