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The Slave Ship Lectures

Archived Lectures, Audio and Video

  • The Slave Ship and ‘Transportations of Terror and Trauma,’” lecture with Sarah Federman, Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, November 20, 2024.
  • The Slave Ship and ‘Economies of Enslavement,’” lecture with Caitlyn Rosenthal, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, December 12, 2023.
  • Het slavenschip (The Slave Ship),” lecture Academisch-cultureel Centrum SPUI25, University of Amsterdam, September 19, 2023.
  • “Welcome to the Terror Ship: Slavery and Resistance at Sea,” Black History Month lecture, The Baton Foundation, Atlanta, GA, February 6, 2022.
  • “The Slave Ship and the Coffin Ship: Histories of Life and Death at Sea,” lecture with Cian McMahon, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, October 28, 2021.
  • “The Ethnography of the Slave Ship,” Seminar on “Cultures of the Sea,” organized by program “Ermenautica,” based at Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Manouba, and the University of Tunisia, May 15, 2020.
  • “The Legacy of the Slave Ship,” lecture, Center on Race and Social Problems, University of Pittsburgh, December 11, 2012 (video).
  • “Lectures in History: The Slave Trade,” lecture, C-SPAN3, University of Pittsburgh, filmed October 2010, televised December 2010 (video).
  • “Slave Ship/Ghost Ship,” lecture, Department of Africana Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, February 17, 2009 (video).
  • “The Floating Dungeon: A History of the Slave Ship,” the John William Byrn Lecture, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, March 12, 2008 (video).
  • “The Slave Ship,” lecture, South Street Seaport Museum/C-SPAN, New York, October 16, 2007 (video).