The Cost of Freedom: Debt and Slavery

May 19, 2017 - May 20, 2017
Brooklyn College

Brooklyn
United States

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Sponsor(s):

  • Ethyle R. Wolfe Series on Classical Studies and the Contemporary World

Speakers:

Saidiya Hartman
Columbia University
Deborah Kamen
University of Washington
Orlando Patterson
Harvard University

Organisers:

Liv Mariah Yarrow
Brooklyn College

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We will be offering a minimum of six bursaries of up to 500 dollars to be awarded on the basis of greatest need, taking into account access to institutional funding and the distance of the conference from the participant’s home institution.

31 October 2016 is the deadline for the submission of abstracts. Please include the following as separate files:  (1) title, abstract of 300-500 words, a one page bibliography (no self identifying information please!); (2) your name, title of your proposed talk, institutional affiliation, short academic bio, and an indication of whether you’d like to be consider for a bursary, a budget for the amount requested, and any information we should take into consideration when making our bursary allocations.

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#classics, history, philosophy, interdisciplinary, freedom, debt, slavery