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.
“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.” Click here to read the rest of the article.
Lectures/Talks 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…