Tubman Seminar Series 2004/2005

January 17, 2013

• Paul E. Lovejoy, FRSC, Distinguished Research Professor, and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History. 
  Title: “Alternatives to Revolution and Insurrection: Olaudah Equiano and the Abortive Plantation Scheme of Dr. Charles Irving on the Mosquito Shore”
  Date: September 21, 2004
  Time: 4:00 to 6:00
  Room: Founders College Senior Common Room, 305
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• José C. Curto, Dept. of History, York University. 
  Title: “Experiences of Enslavement in West-Central Africa”
  Date: November 23, 2004 
  Time: 4:00 to 6:00
  Room: Founders College Senior Common Room, 305
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• Mohammed B. Salau, Ph. D. Candidate, Dept. of History, York University. 
  Title: “Ribats and the Development of Plantations in the Sokoto Caliphate: A Case Study of Fanisau”
  Date: November 30, 2004
  Time: 3:00 to 5:00
  Room: Founders College Senior Common Room, 305
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• Jennifer Lofkrantz, Ph. D. Candidate, Dept. of History, York University. 
  Title: “Norms of Enslavement in the Western Soudan 1890-1910”
  Date: December 07, 2004
  Time: 4:00 to 6:00
  Room: Founders College Senior Common Room, 305
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• Audra Diptee, Ph. D. Candidate, Dept. of History, University of Toronto. 
  Title: “Children in the Atlantic Slave Trade to Jamaica in the late 18th Century”
  Date: January 04, 2005
  Time: 4:00 to 6:00
  Room: Founders College Senior Common Room, 305
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• Behnaz Mirzai, Ph. D., Dept. of History, York University, 
  Title: “Transformations in 19th Century Iran: From Slavery to Emancipation”
  Date: January 18, 2005
  Time: 4:00 to 6:00
  Room: Founders College Senior Common Room, 305
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• Gamal Adam, Ph. D. Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, York University, 
  Title: “Living in Limbo: The Case of Young Sudanese Male Refugees in Cairo”
  Date: February 01, 2005
  Time: 4:00 to 6:00
  Room: Founders College Senior Common Room, 305

• Professor Mariza de Carvalho Soares, Dept. of History, Universidade Federal Fluminense. 
  Title: “Le barbier, l’artiste, et l’histoire, (Rio de Janeiro, 18ème Siècle)”
  Date: March 03, 2005
  Time: 5:00 to 7:00
  Room: Founders College Senior Common Room, 305
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• Mariana Candido, Ph. D. Candidate, Dept. of History, York University: 
  Title: “Usurping Freedom: Processes of Enslavement in Benguela and its Hinterland, 1780-1850”
  Date: March 22, 2005
  Time: 4:00 to 6:00
  Room: Founders College Senior Common Room, 305
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• Prof. Paul E. Lovejoy, Dept. of History, York University:
  Title: “The Urban Background of Enslaved Muslims in the Americas”
  Date: March 31, 2005
  Time: 3:00 to 5:00
  Room: Founders College Senior Common Room, 305
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• Professor Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Dept. of English, University of Heidelberg
  Title: “An Island Occupied: The Interpretation of the U.S. Marine Occupation of Haiti in Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse and Katherine Dunham’s Island Possessed”
  Date: April 04, 2005
  Time: 1:30 to 3:30
  Room: Founders College Senior Common Room, 305
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• Ismael Musah Montana, Ph. D. Candidate, Dept. of History, York University, 
  Title: “Transformations and Changing Patterns of the Caravan Slave Trade in the Regency of Tunis, 1782-1814”
  Date: April 19, 2005
  Time: 1:30 to 3:30
  Room: Founders College Senior Common Room, 305
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