By inviting leading scholars from France and the United States and throughout the Francophone world to engage with these questions through a day-long symposium in Providence (with a keynote lecture the evening prior), the event highlighted the work of historians, literary scholars, anthropologists and sociologists who have been at the vanguard of these new histories and whose scholarship has advanced our understanding of newly articulated geographies of enslavement.
This workshop was supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and partially funded by the Pierre and Mary Ann Sorel Fund for French Studies, the Mollie B. Mandeville Lectureship Fund, and the Herbert H. Goldberg Lectureship Fund. It is co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The keynote is also co-sponsored by the Department of History, and the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
This event was convened by Neil Safier, director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and associate professor of history.