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Institute for the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ of Slavery

ISOS events

 

About our events

The Institute for the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ of Slavery (ISOS) organise a range of events including guest lectures, panel discussions, workshops, and international conferences exploring historical and modern slavery, and forced labour, alongside related issues such as systemic and systematic racism endured by African Diaspora.

 

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Recent and Upcoming Events

The American Mind – Race, slavery and liberty

The American Mind – Race, slavery and liberty
Date
29 October 2014 (18:00-19:00)
Description
Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of History and Law at Harvard University, will discuss America's struggles over slavery, race and freedom, including the legacies of that struggle in culture, law and the American imagination. Part of UoN Black History Month 2014.

Wash – A novel on American Slavery

Wash – A novel on American Slavery
Date
15 October 2014 (17:30-18:30)
Description
The award-winning American author Margaret Wrinkle will offer a reading and discussion, as well as a public conversation with Katie Hamilton of The ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ and audience Q&A.

ISOS Seminar - Interpretations of Homeric slavery

Date
4 March 2014 (17:00-19:00)
Description
Dr Nial McKeown (University of Birmingham)

A reusable past - the protest memory of abolitionism

Date
15 November 2013 (18:00-19:00)
Description
Inaugural lecture by Professor Zoe Trodd, Department of American and Canadian Studies.

Black History Month: Open Lecture

Date
22 October 2013 (17:00-19:00)
Description
Dr Jane-Marie Collins - 'African Families: in slavery, in freedom, in Brazil'The research presented and explored is part of a larger study about the lives of enslaved and freed women - African and Brazilian - and their female descendants in 19th-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The focus is on the different ways these women constituted their families under a system of slavery, in a colonial context and in a society that was diverse culturally, racially and ethnically.

Nathaniel Coleman 2 Oct

Date
2 October 2013 (15:00-17:00)
Description
School of Philosophy and ISOS seminarWednesday 2 October, 3-5pmDr Nathaniel Coleman (Department of Philosophy, University College London): 'What is wrong with [RM Hare's arguments against] slavery?'

ISOS Annual Lecture 2013

Date
13 March 2013 (18:30-20:00)
Description
The Deadly Link: Ecocide and 21st-Century Slavery

Conference - Haiti: 1804 and its afterlives

Date
7 (00:00) - 8 December 2012 (00:00)
Description
7-8th December 2012: The Space, Nottingham Contemporary. The speakers include Emeritus Professor Dick Geary, former Director of ISOS.

Seminar - Slavery, Marxism, and the South: Reflections on Major Themes in the Career of Eugene D. Genovese

Date
28 November 2012 (17:00-18:00)
Description
Participants: Laura Sandy (Keele), John Ashworth (Nottingham), Richard H. King (Nottingham), Zoe Trodd (Nottingham) Highfield House, Room A01, 5:00pm
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