Please see final call below.
Caribbeanists in hot demand.
Best wishes,
Fionnghuala.
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Liberating Sojourn 2: Transatlantic Abolitionists 1845-1860
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Symposium: University of Liverpool, 23rd-25th April 2009
Keynote Speakers: Prof Richard Blackett, Vanderbilt University: “Henry Highland Garnet and the African American Struggle for Freedom, and Liberty”
Prof Jean Fagan Yellin, Pace University: “The First Lady and the Slave Girl”
Marike Sherwood: Black and Asian Studies Association: “William G Allen in Britain”
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s second visit to the United Kingdom, 1859-1860, Liberating Sojourn 2 focuses on black abolitionists abroad in the period 1845-1860. The symposium will take place in Liverpool, the former slave port from which Douglass began his second UK tour.
The aim of the symposium is to bring together international scholarly perspectives on the activities of abolitionist campaigners and sojourners in the period. It will include literary, historical, art historical, cultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Papers are invited across a range of subjects, examples of which might include: race, gender and reform; African Colonization; popular entertainment and racial performance; travel; religion and ethical culture; reform movements; resistance and revolt; constitution and law; blackness and empire (Portuguese, Spanish, British, Dutch, American); nationalism; North America, the Caribbean or Latin America; romanticism; the economics of slavery and anti-slavery; liberalism; philosophy and freedom; literary and political afterlives.
There will be a session on Abolitionists in the North West of England, and on Comparative Luso-Iberian perspectives. In addition, there will be a dedicated teaching session and proposals for papers with a specific pedagogical focus are welcome.
We are still accepting abstracts. If you would like to submit a paper, contact Fionnghuala Sweeney ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>,) or Alan Rice ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by 13 February, 2009.
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Dr Fionnghuala Sweeney
ILAS
University of Liverpool
L69 7WW
UK.
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