Friday 4th March 2022 at Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL. Matthew Smith: Inaugural Professorial Lecture: A Troubling Freedom: Power and Memories of Slavery. Venue: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre (at Birkbeck, University of London) What’s in a name?' The Hobsbawm memorial lecture, 2022. Click Full details below.Ĭatherine Hall, 'Racial capitalism. Wednesday, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm, Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL. Morgan on the subject of 'The Measure of their Sadness: Slavery and Private Life in the Early Black Atlantic'.

The inaugural Elsa Goveia public lecture UCL was given by Professor Jennifer L. Support the work of LBS! To keep the work of LBS going we need your assistance with funding to help cover our operational costs. This name change incorporates the work we have done and chartsĪ way forward for our new phase of research and activities on slaveryĪnd its legacies in Britain and the Caribbean. The Study of the Legacies of British Slavery. Make is to our name, which we changed in May 2021 to the Centre for To the study of the multiple legacies of slavery in the British imperial Slave-owners and estates and an exciting demonstration of our commitment This is a natural development from our work on In the direction of more focused research on the lives of enslaved Leaving lasting legacies that reach into the present. That research and analysis of this group are key to understanding theĮxtent and the limits of slavery's role in shaping British history and The slave-owners were one very important means by which theįruits of slavery were transmitted to metropolitan Britain. Project (2009-2012), and the ESRC and AHRC-funded Structure and significance ofīritish Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833 (2013-2015).Ĭolonial slavery shaped modern Britain and we all still live with its The Centre builds on two earlier projects basedĪt UCL tracing the impact of slave-ownership on the formation of modernīritain: the ESRC-funded Legacies of British Slave-ownership Slavery has been established at UCL with the generous support of the HutchinsĬenter at Harvard. The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British

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