Symposium: Freedom and Entanglement Across the Black Atlantic

Name: Symposium: Freedom and Entanglement Across the Black Atlantic — The Committee on Globalization and Social Change
Start: 2016-05-06T14:00:00+0100
End: 2016-05-06T18:30:00+0100
Location: Room 9204/9205, CUNY Graduate Center

Friday, May 6, 2016
2:00 PM 6:30 PM 14:00 18:30

Room 9204/9205, CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue New York, NY, 10016 United States (map)

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A day-long symposium featuring Vincent Brown (Harvard University), David Kazanjian (University of Pennsylvania), Kelly Baker Josephs (York College, CUNY), Laurent Dubois (Duke University), Vincent Brown (Harvard University), and Duncan Faherty (The Graduate Center/Queens College, CUNY), and Kandia Crazy Horse (musician/performer/critic).

I: Panel | 2:00-4:00pm
ATLANTIC IMPROVISATIONS

Vincent Brown (Harvard University)
“The Coromantee War and the Martial Geography of Atlantic Slavery”

David Kazanjian (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World”

Moderated by Kelly Baker Josephs (York College, CUNY)

[Coffee Break]

II: Book Discussion | 4:30-6:30pm
LAURENT DUBOIS, THE BANJO: AMERICA’S AFRICAN INSTRUMENT
Laurent Dubois (Duke University) in conversation with Vincent Brown (Harvard University), Duncan Faherty (The Graduate Center/Queens College, CUNY), and Kandia Crazy Horse (musician/performer/critic).

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