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David Wheat’s article, “Mediterranean Slavery, New World Transformations: Galley Slaves in the Spanish Caribbean, 1578-1635” appears in the latest issue of the journal Slavery and Abolition (v. 31, issue 3, Sept. 2010). The issue is dedicated to Maritime Slavery.  Walter Hawthorne also has an article in… Continue Reading Professors Wheat and Hawthorne in journal “Slavery and Abolition”

Walter Hawthorne’s new book, From Africa to Brazil, Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1830, African Studies Series, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, was released this week.

Javier Pescador was one of 12 international artists selected to create Day of the Dead art installations for the exhibit “Vida Breve Day of the Dead 2010” at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. His installation “Qing Ming in Mictlan?” (with Gabrielle Pescador) is dedicated to… Continue Reading Professor Pescador’s Installation at National Museum of Mexican Art

On 8 September in South Africa, Peter Alegi gives the keynote address for the Department of Politics and International Studies Conference “After the Thrill has Gone: Reflections on the 2010 FIFA World Cup.” For more information, click here. A written description of Professor Alegi’s speech… Continue Reading Professor Alegi gives Keynote at Rhodes University

Lewis Siegelbaum is speaking at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at University of Michigan on Wed, Sept 8, from 12-1:30. Topic: “Modernity Unbound: Tol’iatti as a Soviet City of the Sixties.” Click here for more information