Global Slavery and Exhibitionary Impulse was de titel van een symposium (11/12 juni 2015) waar ik een presentatie gaf over de manier waarop het Amsterdam Museum in 2013 slavernij toonde als interventie in de Gouden Eeuw tentoonstelling. Hoe vertaal je exhibitionary impulse? Als het tentoonstellen van slavernij of misschien eerder de neiging tot het tentoonstellen?

Rhode Island’s Episcopal Church is about to unveil plans for a museum and teaching center dedicated to the slave trade. The state has a long and difficult history of involvement  in slavery.  RIPR political analyst Scott MacKay discussed the proposal with Episcopal Bishop Nicholas Knisely, whose wife happens to work for Rhode Island Public Radio.

More than two dozen experts at three events this month will talk about what has become, arguably, the nation's number one topic: Race.

Speakers present on colorblindness, schools as common settings for racial struggles

Soon, some of the nation’s brightest students will learn whether or not they have been accepted for early admission at the country’s most elite universities. Few of these young people, however, are aware of how many of these hallowed institutions of higher learning have troubling aspects to their storied history, including Harvard, Yale, and my alma mater, Brown: Each has ties to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

From hiring to promotion, structural racism limits opportunities, stretches responsibilities

A plan to open what would be the only museum in the U.S. centred on the trans-Atlantic slave trade would focus on the Episcopal Church's role in its history and the sometimes-buried legacy of slavery in northern states.

Faculty, students, alumni, staff, and President Emerita Ruth Simmons gathered Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, to dedicate the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and visit its new home at 94 Waterman Street.

Paxson dedicates sculpture as part of 250th anniversary celebration before large audience

Hundreds of snaps rang throughout Salomon 101 in support of speakers’ messages of directly confronting racial tensions during a teach-in Tuesday about the events surrounding last month’s fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri.

Deborah Willis, chair of the department of photography and imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University presented the 2014 Debra L. Lee Lecture on Slavery and Justice to a half-filled Smith-Buonano 106, entitled “Visualizing Freedom: Photography and Emancipation.”

Ships of Bondage and the Fight for Freedom examines the global networks involved in the slave trade during the period of European colonial empires. 

“The issue of slavery is anything but in the past,” said Associate Professor of History Seth Rockman at a Commencement forum sponsored by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice on slavery’s enduring legacy in the United States.

Beyond Sweetness: New Histories of Sugar in the Early Atlantic World at the John Carter Brown Library, October 24-27, 2013

On May 9, 2013, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justiceopened its inaugural exhibit, Ships of Bondage and the Fight for Freedom at the Center for Public Humanities’ Carriage House Gallery. 

B. Anthony Bogues, the Harmon Family Professor of Africana Studies and director for the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ), is in Europe to give three public lectures and seminars in the coming weeks.

Brown University will bring together community leaders for a forum on "Racial Profiling in Rhode Island" on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, at 6 p.m. in the Rites and Reason Theatre, Churchill House.