Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Digital Humanities Symposium: “The Study of Slavery and Abolition in the Digital Age”

Event time: 
Friday, May 4, 2018 - 11:00am
Location: 
Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208 See map
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Digital Humanities Symposium presents a conference: 

“The Study of Slavery and Abolition in the Digital Age.”

Welcoming Remarks, 11:00

David Blight, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center
Peter Leonard, Director, Digital Humanities Lab

Morning Panel, 11:30-1:00

Denise Burgher, University of Deleware
Jim Casey, Princeton University
The Colored Conventions Project
www.coloredconventions.org

Linford Fisher, Brown University
Database of Indigenous Slavery in the Americas
https://indigenousslavery.org/

Dawn Chitty, African American Civil War Museum
John Clegg, New York University
African American Civil War Soldiers Project
www.usct.cc

Moderator: jub Sankofa, Yale University

Lunch: 1:00 to 2:30

Afternoon Panel, 2:30 to 4:00

Joseph Yannielli, Yale University
Students from Dr. Yannielli’s class “Runaways, Rebels, Wenches & Rogues”
Runaway New England

Judith Giesberg, Villanova University
Margaret Jerrido, Archivist, Mother Bethel AME Church, Philadelphia
Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery
http://www.informationwanted.org/

Moderator: Danya Pilgrim, Yale University
 

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public