“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…

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.