2011 Symposium of the Alexandrian Society – "Atlantic Migration During Slavery: Part 1"

Alexandrian Society, VCU Department of History, 2011 Spring Symposium

Atlantic Migration During Slavery: Part 1

Wednesday, April 27, 2011
9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Avenue
More information: [email protected]
The event is free and open to the public

The Alexandrian Society of the Department of History at Virginia Commonwealth University will present Atlantic Migration During Slavery: Part 1, a symposium bringing together important scholars in the field of Atlantic Studies.

Guest lecturers include:

Paul Lovejoy, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor and Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Out of Africa: Atlantic Migration During Slavery.

Ronald Johnson, Ph.D., M. Div., Assistant Professor, Texas State University. Merchant on the Move: Marie Bunel and Atlantic Migration in the Age of Revolutions.

Edward Rugemer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Yale University. Resistance, Race, and the Law: The Expansion of Slavery in England’s Greater Caribbean Empire during the 17th Century.

Daniel Livesay, Ph.D., NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. The War over the Imperial Family: Interracial Households Crossing Between Jamaica and Britain in the Mid-Eighteenth Century.

Katherine Paugh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Yaws and Syphilis: Sexuality and Cultures of Disease in the Atlantic World, 1600-1833.

Rebecca Schloss, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Texas A & M University. Crossing the Waters: Women, Family, and Migration in the Early Nineteenth-Century French Atlantic.

John Powers, Ph.D., Collateral Assistant Professor, Assistant Director, Science, Technology, and Society Program, Virginia Commonwealth University. Smallpox in the Old and New Worlds: Framing Disease in the Eighteenth Century.

Presented by the Alexandrian Society of the VCU Department of History under the direction of Dr. Bernard Moitt, with support from the VCU Student Government Association, the Dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences, the Science, Technology, and Society Program, and the Honors College.