On April 8, 2021, the 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize winner Dr. Stephanie Jones-Rogers, associate professor of history at the University of California-Berkeley, and Dr. Thavolia Glymph, professor of…
Past Programs
November 27, 2017 @ Noon Tim Lockley, “The Army and Slavery in the British Caribbean: Creating The West India Regiments 1795-1820” Tim Lockley, Professor of History and Director of…
Thursday, October 19 @ 6:00pm How was the Slavery and Freedom exhibition at the National Museum of African American History and Culture conceived? How was the collection assembled?…
The Lapidus Center inaugural conference, “Reckoning With Slavery: New Directions in the History, Memory, Legacy, and Popular Representations of Enslavement” took place November 16-18 at the Schomburg Center.…
Thursday August 3, 2017 @ 6:30pm Dutch rule in New Amsterdam and New Netherland (1609-1664) was short in comparison to other colonial empires, but it has had a…
Thursday, April 6, 2017 @ 12pm Linford D. Fisher, Associate Professor of History, Brown University Atlantic Slaveries: Native American and African Slavery in New England and the Caribbean…
Thursday, March 9, 2017 @ 12pm Lewis Eliot, PhD Candidate, University of South Carolina. Illegal Trade in Human Flesh: Illicit Slave Trading in the Atlantic World, 1833-1867 Abolition in…
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 @ 6:30pm In celebration of Black Music Month, the Lapidus Center presented the documentary film Tango Negro: The African Roots of Tango. Directed by…
Thursday, February 23, 2017 @12pm Leo Garofalo, Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College. Afro-Iberians as Black European Sailors, Soldiers, Travelers, and Traders in the Spanish Empire, 1500s and…
Enjoy exciting talks on works in progress on the slave trade, slavery and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World. January 26, 2017 – 12pm Philip Misevich, PhD. Assistant Professor…