Slavery as History and Memory: In this podcast, Ana Lucia Araujo talks with Professor Patricia Parker, Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities about the history and memory of slavery, the teaching of the history of slavery in the United States, and Brazil, other spaces where this history is disseminated, and well as her two current book projects.
Araujo’s forthcoming book featured at the Getty News
“As Araujo puts it: “In my case study, French conquerors looted the same object slave traders previously given as a gift to African agents. They kept looted African heritage in private and public collections for many decades, and only now are acknowledging it.”
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Araujo explores ‘Slavery as History and Memory’ in 2023 Reckford Lecture
“On Feb. 23, historian Ana Lucia Araujo delivered the 2023 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies to a packed University Room in Hyde Hall. Araujo, a professor at Howard University, discussed “Slavery as History and Memory” as she detailed her research in exploring the history and memory of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery.”
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Ana Lucia Araujo to deliver the Reckford Lecture at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
“Howard University professor Ana Lucia Araujo will deliver the 2023 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies on Feb. 23 with a presentation titled “Slavery as History and Memory.”
The lecture will examine the recent international developments surrounding the fall of pro-slavery monuments and demands of symbolic and material reparations for slavery and colonialism. By exploring the history of the public debates about slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, the lecture aims to illuminate why and how these debates have gained growing importance in the public sphere and the public space over the past ten years not only in the United States but also in other slave societies and societies that were deeply involved in perpetuating these human atrocities.”
Araujo named a scholar at the Getty Research Institute Scholar in 2023
Ana Lucia Araujo was named a Getty Research Institute Scholar for the academic year 2022-23. She will be in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California, from January 10 to June 30, 2023, working on her book The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism. To know more, check the Getty Research Institute announcement.
Ana Lucia Araujo member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Spring/Summer 2022
Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo (Professor in the Department of History, Howard University) is a member of the School of Historical Studies of the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey in the Spring/Summer 2022. IAS was established in 1930 with twenty-three Members in the School of Mathematics with Albert Einstein as one of its first Professors and later with historians and art historians such as Erwin Panofsky. Today, IAS’s community of scholars expanded and includes more than 8,000 historians, mathematicians, natural scientists, and social scientists. During her term at IAS, Professor Araujo will be working on her book The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (under contract with Cambridge University Press). The book explores how material culture, especially objects of prestige, shaped the exchanges between Africans and Europeans in the era of the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism. Professor Araujo also received a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society to work on this project.