Join the #Slaveryarchive Book Club on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, 5pm EST for a conversation with Dr. Mariana P. Candido, Associate Professor of History, and Adam Jones (University of Leipzig) about their book African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660-1880 (Cambridge UP, 2019). Register at: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMof-moqDorEtPFVs8cN9LnBF2u6J2z2GQm.
Dr. Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History and Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning, will present a talk entitled “Cultures in Movement: Expanding Virtual Methods of Research” (Culturas em movimento: Ampliando as pesquisas em modos virtuais) for a lecture series organized by the University in Transformation (Universidade em Transformação). Lesser will discuss virtual approaches he employs in his research as well as his current major project on health, immigration, and environment in the Bom Retiro neighborhood of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Read more about the event (in Portuguese) here.
Emory historians will gather via Zoom to discuss the “Legacies of Reconstruction” on November 10, 2020, from 1:00-2:00 pm EST. Panelists include Dr. Susan Ashmore, Charles Howard Candler Professor of History, Emory Oxford, and Dr. Alyasah A. Sewell, Associate Professor, Emory Department of Sociology. The panel will be moderated by Camille Goldmon, a PhD candidate in the History Department. The event is a part of the Lift Every Voice seminar series, organized as a tribute to the late Dr. Pellom McDaniels, III. Find more details about the event, including registration, here: http://emorylib.info/lift-nov.
Dr. Danielle Wiggins, a 2018 graduate of the History PhD program, will join other panelists on November 10, 2020, to discuss the legacies of Reconstruction. Wiggins is Assistant Professor of History at Caltech. PhD candidate in History Camille Goldman will moderate the conversation. The event is a part of the Lift Every Voice seminar series, organized as a tribute to the late Dr. Pellom McDaniels, III. Find more details about the event, including registration, here: http://emorylib.info/lift-nov.
Undergraduate students and faculty gathered on Wednesday, October 28, 2020, for a virtual workshop to discuss a chapter from Assistant Professor Maria R. Montalvo‘s book Archive of the Enslaved: Power, Enslavement, and the Production of the Past. The conversation focused on enslaved people, illness, and commodification in the antebellum courtroom.
Dr. Eric L. Goldstein, Associate Professor of History, is the featured speaker for an upcoming live stream event hosted by the Jewish Museum of Maryland. Goldstein, who also serves as Judith London Evans Director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, will speak on “The Consequences of Acceptance: From the ‘Jewish Race’ to White Privilege.” Jewish Museum of Maryland director Tracie Guy-Decker will join Goldstein for a conversation about how the place of Jews in America’s racial culture has changed over time. The event is Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 4:00pm EST. Find more information here, including the link for registration.
Please join us this coming Thursday, October 29, at 4:20pm to learn about the latest history honors research projects. Three students, Cameron Katz, Sun Woo Park, and Ryan Kelly, will present their work on felon disenfranchisement in Florida, the time of South Korea’s president Kim Dae-jung at Emory, and the representation of syphilis in Renaissance art. If you have not received the zoom link via email, please contact Prof. Eckert at aeckert [at] emory [dot] edu.
The September issue of The American Historian, titled “History for Black Lives,” featured seven articles from scholars throughout the United States and was edited by Dr. Carl Suddler, Assistant Professor of History. On Thursday, October 2020, Suddler and the other authors of the articles in the edition will host a webinar on the continued centrality of racism in the U.S. and struggles for justice. Find more information about event, which is open to the public, on the flyer above.
Emory’s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies will host the 12th Annual Rothschild Lecture on October 29, 2020, at 7:30pm via Zoom. The lecture will feature a conversation between Associate Professor of History Eric Goldstein and Eric K. Ward, Executive Director of the Western States Center and nationally-recognized expert on the relationship between authoritarian movements, hate violence, and preserving inclusive democracy. The topic for the conversation is “Skin in the Game: American Jews, Whiteness, and the Contemporary Movement for Racial Justice.” Goldstein is the TIJS Judith London Evans Director and author of The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity. Register for the virtual event here.
Assistant Professor Carl Suddler will moderate the panel “Crime Fiction Down South” at the upcoming Decatur Book Festival. The panelists include award-winning novelists Tom Mullen, Attica Locke and S.A. Cosby, whose hard-hitting crime fiction is set in Georgia, Texas, and Virginia (respectively). These authors will discuss crime fiction along with Suddler and Emory graduate student Kareem Joseph. The free and online event is Monday, Sept. 14, 6:30 p.m. Register for this event here.