Reframing African Collections Symposium

This webinar, Reframing African Collections, brings together scholars, specialists, and stakeholders for collective conversations on the historical impacts of enslavement and their cultural legacies. There are 10 public tickets available for the webinar, which can be booked via the ticket link below. 

Featured Speakers include:

Ana Lucia Araujo
Professor of History and cultural historian exploring the Atlantic slave trade's memory and legacies, including reparations, public memory, heritage, and visual culture.

Kwasi Konadu
Professor of African History at Colgate University. His work illuminates African and African diasporic histories, with a personal and scholarly focus on global African interconnectedness.

Megan Crutcher
Historian, archaeologist, and PhD candidate at Texas A&M University, co-director of the Kru Coast Heritage Initiative. Her research highlights West African sailors like the Kru, examining their resistance to colonisation and the intersections of race and labor exploitation.

Herman Bennett
Renowned scholar of African diaspora history, focusing on colonial Latin America. He has extensively studied African slaves and freedmen in colonial Mexico, examining their interactions with Native Americans and Europeans.

The symposium will be recorded for internal use.