The UBC Depart ment of History Colloquium Series brings together scholars who are e xploring important methodological\, chronological\, or geographical issues that challenge the frontiers of our discipline and contribute strongly to o ur collective discussions.
We are pleased to invite you to the first event of the 2022/2023 Colloquium series\, featuring a talk by Dr. Natalie Zacek\, Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester \, UK.
Whether you choose to attend virtually or in-person\, please r egister for the event. A light lunch will be available for in-person attend ees who register in advance.
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Although traces of enslaved labour are not present a t English universities as they are at so many in the United States\, the fo rmer set of institutions are also engaged in debates over their relationshi p with slavery in the British empire\, specifically in Jamaica\, Barbados\, and other Caribbean islands. In this talk\, Dr. Zacek\, who has investigat ed her home institution's connections to enslavement\, will discuss the sim ilarities and differences in how these controversies are playing out on bot h sides of the Atlantic\, and how they connect with broader disputes about historical representation\, colonial legacies\, and reparative justice.
Nat alie Zacek is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester (UK). She is a historian of the Atlantic world\, with emphasis o n the British colonies in the Caribbean. In spring 2022 she was a fellow at Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History\, at which she began the research on which this talk is based. She is currently worki ng on two book projects\, a study of the historical and contemporary links between English universities and colonial slavery and an examination of the effect of British Caribbean absentees and their capital on later Georgian London.
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