Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

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Global & Imperial History Research Seminar - "Slavery and Abolition"

Hilary Term 2023

The following seminars will be given at 4pm on Fridays at the History Faculty.  

1^st Week: Friday, 20 January                                                            4pm, Colin Matthew Room

Manuel Barcia Paz, University of Leeds

“Abolitionism and the Global Suppression of ‘Piracy’ in the Nineteenth Century”

2^nd Week: Friday, 27 January                                                           4pm, Colin Matthew Room

Andrea Major, University of Leeds

“From Anti-Slavery to East India Reform: Trans-Atlantic Abolitionism, British Colonial Philanthropy, and Empire in India, 1838-43”

3^rd Week: Friday, 3 February                                                           4pm, Colin Matthew Room

Fabian Klose, University of Cologne

“Enforcing Abolition and the Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century”

4^th Week: Friday, 10 February                                                          4pm, Colin Matthew Room

Anne Ruderman, LSE

“The Local and the Coastal: How Slave-Ship Outfitters Understood Atlantic Africa”

5^th Week: Friday, 17 February                                                          4pm, Colin Matthew Room

Matthew Smith, Director, Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, UCL

“New World Royalists: Slavery and Inheritance in Plantation Jamaica”

6^th Week: Friday, 24 February                                         4pm, Colin Matthew Room

Danielle Terrazas Williams, University of Leeds

“Manifesting Colonial Collectivities: Black Women and Trauma in Mid-Colonial Mexico”

7^th Week: Friday, 3 March                                              History Faculty, Colin Matthew Room

GIH DPhil Presentations

8^th Week: Friday, 10 March                                            History Faculty, Colin Matthew Room

GIH MSt Presentations