ISOS events

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Date: 11 February 2015 (17:30-19:00)
Description: The ISOS Annual Lecture will be delivered by Prof Robin Law, Emeritus Professor of African History (University of Stirling) on 'Provisioning the slave trade: the supply of corn on the seventeenth-century Gold Coast'.

Date: 26 November 2014 (11:00-17:00)
Description: Learn more about our extensive range of masters and research courses available in the Faculty of Arts

Date: 31 October 2014 (17:15-18:15)
Description: Dr Susanne Seymour, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Slavery, looks to the Midlands to discuss the legacy of the slave trade.

Date: 29 October 2014 (18:00-19:00)
Description: Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of History and Law at Harvard University, will discuss America's struggles over slavery, race and freedom, including the legacies of that struggle in culture, law and the American imagination. Part of UoN Black History Month 2014.

Date: 15 October 2014 (17:30-18:30)
Description: The award-winning American author Margaret Wrinkle will offer a reading and discussion, as well as a public conversation with Katie Hamilton of The University of Nottingham and audience Q&A.

Date: 15 November 2013 (18:00-19:00)
Description: Inaugural lecture by Professor Zoe Trodd, Department of American and Canadian Studies.

Date: 22 October 2013 (17:00-19:00)
Description: 22 October 2013 African Families: in slavery, in freedom, in Brazil - The research presented and explored in Jane-Marie's lecture is part of a larger study about the lives of enslaved and freed women, African and Brazilian, and their female descendants in nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

Date: 22 October 2013 (17:00-19:00)
Description: Dr Jane-Marie Collins - 'African Families: in slavery, in freedom, in Brazil'The research presented and explored is part of a larger study about the lives of enslaved and freed women - African and Brazilian - and their female descendants in 19th-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The focus is on the different ways these women constituted their families under a system of slavery, in a colonial context and in a society that was diverse culturally, racially and ethnically.

Date: 2 October 2013 (15:00-17:00)
Description: School of Philosophy and ISOS seminarWednesday 2 October, 3-5pmDr Nathaniel Coleman (Department of Philosophy, University College London): 'What is wrong with [RM Hare's arguments against] slavery?'

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