Paul E. Lovejoy FRSC, Distinguished Research Professor, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, York University. Title: "Autobiography and Memory: Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, the African" Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 Room: 305 Founders College (Senior Common Room), York University Time: 4:00-6:00pm Download the Paper
Thorald Burnham, Ph.D. Candidate, York University. Title: ‘A Stranger in a Strange Land’: Re-Conceptualizing the Presence of foreign-born Nationals in Nineteenth-Century Haiti Using the Port-au-Prince Marriage Registries’ Date: Thursday, September 29, 2005 Room: 2183 Vari Hall, History Seminar Room, York University Time: 4:30-6:30pm Download the Paper
Professor Edward A. Alpers, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles. Title: "Indian Ocean Middle Passages: The Dhow Slave Trade" Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 Time: 1:30 pm Location: 2183 Vari Hall (History Seminar Room) Download the Paper
Ana Lucia Araújo, Ph.D. Candidate, Université Laval. Title: "Public monuments and private memories: the slave route in Ouidah" Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2005 Room: 305 Founders College (Senior Common Room), York University Time: 4:00-6:00pm Download the Paper
Jennifer Lofkrantz, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, York University. Title: "Ransoming in 19th Century West Africa" Date: Thursday, November 10, 2005 Room: 305 Founders, Senior Common Room, York University Time: 4:30-6:30pm Download the Paper
Gerard Van Herk, Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics University of Ottawa. Title: "Don’t know much about history: Beyond language in antebellum African American correspondence" Date: Thursday, November 24, 2005 Room: 305 Founders, Senior Common Room, York University Time: 4:30-6:30pm Download the Paper
Mariana P. Candido, Ph.D. Candidate, York University. Title: "Benguela: An Atlantic Port of the Slave Trade" Date: Monday, January 23, 2006 Room: Faculty and Staff Lounge (History/Anthropology), Vari Hall, York University Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Ibrahim Hamza, PhD Candidate, York University. Title: "A Study of the Influence of slaves in tax gathering in Kano Emirate"
Date: Tuesday, January 31
Room: Fouonders College, Brian Cragg Cinema, Room 211.
Time: 12:30-2:30 Download the Paper
Cassandra Pybus, Professor, University of Sydney. Title: “The Day of Jubilee is Come”: Isaac Anderson and Rebellion in Sierra Leone." Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 Room: 2183 Vari Hall (Department of History), York University Time: 4:00-6:00pm Download the Paper