Tubman Seminars Series 2004/2005

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
Time: 4:00 to 6:00
Room: Founders College Senoir 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 Senoir 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 Senoir 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 Senoir 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 Senoir 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 Senoir 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 Senoir Common Room, 305
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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 Senoir 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 Senoir 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 Senoir 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 Senoir 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 Senoir Common Room, 305
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