The Centre for the Research of the Legacies of British Slavery has introduced the inaugural Elsa Goveia public lecture at College School London (UCL)—“The Measure of their Unhappiness: Slavery and Personal Life within the Early Black Atlantic”—which will probably be will probably be delivered by Jennifer L. Morgan (New York College). The is occasion takes place on Might 18, 2022, from 6:00 to eight:00pm (GMT) on the Darwin Lecture Theatre (UCL). The lecture is free, however you will want to register. See particulars right here.
Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of Historical past within the Division of Social and Cultural Evaluation at New York College and is the creator of the prize-winning Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism within the Early Black Atlantic (Duke College Press, 2021), Laboring Girls: Gender and Replica within the Making of New World Slavery (College of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) and quite a few different publications. Her analysis examines the intersections of gender and race within the Black Atlantic.
Professor Morgan is the inaugural Elsa Goveia Speaker on the Centre for the Research of the Legacies of British Slavery, UCL.
Elsa V. Goveia (1925-1980) learn Historical past at UCL from 1945-1948 the place she was one of many first West Indian college students to have studied within the division. In 1947 she received the Pollard Prize for English historical past in 1947, changing into the primary West Indian to take action. After finishing her PhD on the College of London in 1952 she was to turn into the primary girl appointed as a professor on the newly created College School of the West Indies (UCWI) and the primary Caribbean-born professor of West Indian research within the UCWI Historical past Division. For 3 a long time she taught Historical past there and was accountable for a pioneering course on Caribbean Historical past whereas enterprise foundational work within the understanding of ‘slave societies.’ Amongst her publications had been A Research on the Historiography of the British West Indies to the tip of the nineteenth century (1956) and Slave Society within the British Leeward Islands on the Finish of the Eighteenth Century (1965).
The Centre for the Research of the Legacies of British Slavery has been established at UCL with the beneficiant help of the Hutchins Middle at Harvard. The Centre builds on two earlier initiatives primarily based at UCL tracing the influence of slave-ownership on the formation of recent Britain: the ESRC-funded Legacies of British Slave-ownership venture (2009-2012), and the ESRC and AHRC-funded Construction and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833 (2013-2015).
For extra data, see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/venture/goveialecture/