Below is a sampling of what to expect this year. Please check back soon to see the most up-to-date schedule.
All events are free and open to the public.
Fall 2016 Events
September 2016
September 6, 2016
CSSJ Open House
September 16, 2016
Prison Education Movement: Does Brown Have a Role?
September 22, 2016
Indian Slavery: An Unspoken History
Part of the Seventh Annual New England Native American Culture Week
September 26, 2016
Lunch Talk with Renée Neely
Navigating Freedom: Waterways of the Underground Railroad – The Dismal Swamp, Tidewater Virginia and Coastal North Carolina
September 29, 2016
Lunch Talk with Prof. Leo Garofalo
CSSJ & John Carter Brown Library Fellows Series: Black European Sailors, Soldiers, Travelers, and Traders to the Spanish Americas, 1500s and 1600s
October 2016
October 5, 2016
Black Power and Critical Oral History Lunch Talk
October 6, 2016
Lunch Talk with Prof. Larry E. Tise
CSSJ & John Carter Brown Library Fellows Series: Slavery & Citizenship in the United States
October 13, 2016
Lunch Talk with Prof. Siobhán McGrath
Anti-slavery as Development: A Postcolonial Critique
October 14, 2016
Policing the Planet Conference
October 17, 2016
Lunck Talk with Holly A. Pinhero
October 21-23, 2016
Family Weekend 2016
- Reception Open House at the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice
- Race, Past and Present: Why Black Lives Matters Today
- CSSJ Open House
- On display: The Black Shackle Exhibition
October 24, 2016
Lunch Talk with Prof. Keith Catone and Prof. Alexa LeBoeuf
CSSJ Faculty Associate Series: Interactive Environments for Learning and Dialogue about Intersectionality
October 27, 2016
Lunch Talk with Prof. Linford Fisher
CSSJ Faculty Associate Series: Land of the Unfree: Indians, Africans, and the World of Colonial Slavery
October 27, 2016
"A Native Indian of New England Born and a Free Man": Stories of Indian Slavery and Freedom in colonial Rhode Island
October 27 & 28, 2016
Captive Genders Conference
October 28 & 29, 2016
Slaves and the Law: Comparative Questions and Approaches
October 31, 2016
Lunch Talk with Crystal Nicole Eddins
CSSJ & John Carter Brown Library Fellows Series: African Diaspora Collective Action: Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
November 2016
November 3, 2016
Lunch Talk with Aisha Zamor
November 7, 2016
Lunch Talk with Westenley Alcenat
CSSJ & Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery Fellows Series: Revolutionary Transnationalism: Prince Saunders, Haitian Emigration, and the Problem of Citizenship in the Age of Atlantic Slavery
November 17, 2016
Lunch Talk with Philip Misevich
CSSJ & Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery Fellows Series: The 19th Century Abolition Campaign in Southern Sierra Leone
December 2016
December 1, 2 & 3, 2016
Slavery and Global Public History: New Challenges
In partnership with the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of African American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University