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Centre for the Study of the Literatures and Cultures of Slavery

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Centre for the Study of the Literatures and Cultures of Slavery

CLCS

The Centre for the Study of the Literatures and Cultures of Slavery (CLCS) connects a series of research initiatives related to modern (1440-) forms of slavery and their past and present repercussions across continents. The centre has three main areas of inquiry:

  1. The relationship between slavery and cultural production in the colonial world.
  2. The processing of the memory and inheritance of slavery in its different forms in contemporary art and literature.
  3. Cultural and literary reflections and interventions in relation to contemporary forms of slavery.

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The centre houses the research project Authoring slavery: Authorship and agency in narratives of slavery in Ghana funded by the Independent Research Fund, Denmark 

Until 2019 the centre was the home of the research project Reading slavery funded by the Velux Foundation

Mads Anders Baggesgaards research project The Freest Port? Slavery and Literature in St. Thomas is supported by the Carlsberg Foundation

News

Publication: Slavery, memory and literature

Publication of vol. II of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery

Publication: A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery – The Atlantic World and Beyond Volume I: Slavery, literature and the emotions

Vol. 1 of the Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery, edited by Madeleine Dobie, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsenhas just…

Publication of poetic dialogue

Publication of the poetic dialogue Hvor end havet skyller dig op - by postdoc Anne Green Munk and the Ghanaian author Gabriel Awuah Mainoo.

Hvor end…

Video montage from the Blind spots exhibition

Video montage made by William Gmayi Nsuiban

Upcoming events

No upcoming events.

Past events

Between dispossession and resistance

26 Feb
Thursday 26 February 2026, at 14:15 Kasernen, Langelandsgade 144, building 1586, room 114

Seminar on representations of slavery in 18th and 19th century texts

Representing slavery in Ghana

13 Oct
Sunday 13 October 2024, at 10:00 Godsbanen Vogn 1, Indgang 3H, Kjeld Tolstrups Gade 3, Aarhus.

The seminar deals with strategies and problems related to the contemporary representation of the Transatlantic slave trade in what is today Ghana. The…

Dialogue with Africa

12 Oct
745 days, Saturday 12 October 2024, at 10:00 -

Seminar in collaboration with Danish PEN
Revised 15.10.2026