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Professor Benedetta Rossi: Inaugural Lecture
13 March 2024, 6:30 pm–9:00 pm
Join UCL History to celebrate Benedetta Rossi's professorship with a lecture in the Gustave Tuck followed by a reception in the South Cloisters. There will be a welcome from Dr Antonio Sennis (UCL) and an introduction by Professor Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, FBA.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Izzie Harvey – UCL History
Location
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Gustave TuckWilkins BuildingGower StreetLondonWC1E 6BT
Africa in the Global History of Slavery and Abolition, 1800-2023
What happens to our understanding of the global history of slavery and abolition if we place African processes, institutions, and actors at the centre of the analysis? When, where, and how did slavery start to be radically challenged in Africa? This lecture will consider these dynamics in different African regions, then zoom in on the Central Sahel and examine the transformations of ideas and practices of enslavement from the times of the Sokoto Caliphate, through colonial occupation, to the struggles of West African anti-slavery activists at the forefront of international abolitionism today.
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre: 18:30-19:30
Reception in South Cloisters: 19:30-21:00
Image: ‘Esclavage’ by Nigerien painter Boubacar Djibo.
About the Speaker
Professor Benedetta Rossi
Professor of History at UCL History
Benedetta Rossi is Professor of History. She has published on the themes of slavery, emancipation, development, migration, and gender in nineteenth and twentieth century Africa. Her recent research focuses on the global and African history of abolition and abolitionism. Benedetta is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded Advanced Grant African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa (AFRAB) and the AHRC-funded project Legacies of Slavery in Niger (LESLAN); she is senior researcher in the ERC-funded project Language as Archive: European Linguistics and the Social History of the Sahara and Sahel in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (LANGARCHIV, PI Camille Lefebvre). The lecture will draw on research carried out in these three projects.