Conferences

2021 Lapidus Center Conference: Registration Info, Schedule, Watch Links, and Pre-Circulated Materials

The 2021 Lapidus Center Conference: Pandemic Legacies: Health, Healing, and Medicine in the Age of Slavery and Beyond will be held October 6-8, 2021. We are excited that…

Save the Date: 2021 Lapidus Center Conference

Pandemic Legacies: Health, Healing, and Medicine in the Age of Slavery and Beyond (October 6-8, 2021) Just as the slave trade tied together the cultures and populations…

EXTENDED DEADLINE: CFP: 2021 Lapidus Center Conference (Virtual)

CALL FOR PAPERS 2021 LAPIDUS CENTER CONFERENCE Pandemic Legacies: Health, Healing, and Medicine in the Age of Slavery and Beyond October 7-8, 2021 Taking its cue…

Save the Date: 2019 Lapidus Center Conference

Please join us for the 2019 Lapidus Center Conference entitled “Enduring Slavery: Resistance, Public Memory, and Transatlantic Archives,” which will be held on October 10-12, 2019, at the…

(CLOSED) DEADLINE EXTENDED - Call for Papers: 2019 Lapidus Center Conference

2019 Lapidus Center Conference Enduring Slavery: Resistance, Public Memory, and Transatlantic Archives The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research…

The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery—funded by a generous $2.5 million gift from Ruth and Sid Lapidus matched by The New York Public Library—is the only facility of its kind based in a public research library.

The initial gift also included 400 rare items of printed material, making the Schomburg Center home to one of the world’s premier collections of slavery material. Sid Lapidus continues to donate items as he acquires them.

The Center's mission is to generate and disseminate scholarly knowledge on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery pertaining to the Atlantic World. The Center supports the work of researchers with long-term and short-term fellowships. Given the centrality of Atlantic slavery to the making of the modern world, the Lapidus fellowships ensure that slavery studies are a cornerstone of the Schomburg Center’s broader research community.

To raise awareness and historical literacy, the Lapidus Center engages the public with a variety of programs, an annual nonfiction prize, exhibitions, conferences, and partnerships with local, national, and international institutions.

Dr. Michelle Commander
Associate Director and Curator