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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

Call for papers: Slavery, Authorship and Literary Culture

Call for papers for vol. 3 of Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery

Call for Papers: Women, Enslavement, and Race

Special issue of Women's writing edited by Stephanie Montesinos Volder, deadline for abstracts Nov. 15, 2023

William Gmayi Nsuiban presenting the Blind Spots exhibition on Joy Prime

Erasmus+ intern - Katharina Wiesmayer

Katharina Wiesmayer will join the centre as an intern for the months of August and September. Katharina is a MA Student of Comparative Literature and…

Book release: Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire

New book by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen just out with Palgrave Macmmillan.

Research trip to northern Ghana

The research team went on a weeklong collective research trip to northern Ghana

Visit at the Bisa Aberwa museum in Takoradi

The research team visited Bisa Aberwa museum in Takoradi where Prof. Kofi Anyidoho was interviewed by local media and The Mirror

Visiting professor

Sep. 2022 the centre will be welcoming prof. Biljana Oklopčić as a visiting scholar.

Research stay at Université Paris 8 - Saint-Denis

Anne Green Munk is participating in the work at the master in création littéraire at Université Paris 8 - Saint-Denis

CfP out for conference:

Authoring Human Rights in West Africa and beyond: Expressions of Slaveries in Literature (texts) and the Arts (visuals)

- University of Cape Coast,…

Research visit and seminar in Ghana

In Feb. 2022 the Danish researchers undertook their first joint research visit to Ghana and held a two day seminar in collaboration with the Ghanaian…

Book release: Emmanuel Saboro: Wounds of our Past: Remembering Captivity, Enslavement and Resistance in African Oral Narratives

New book out by project participant Emmanuel Saboro on Brill

Starting workshop of the research project Authoring Slavery

- Seminar

The centre were last week the proud hosts of three distinguished Ghanaian researchers: Prof. Emmanuel Saboro, University of Cape Coast, Prof. Helen…

Guest lecture by Mads Anders Baggesgaard at Wagner College

- Lecture / talk

Podcast w.Mads Anders Baggesgaard on legacies of slavery

- Presseklip

Bla bla podcast by Aarhus Studenterradio (in Danish)

Lire et narrer le post-esclavage

- Publication

Special issue of the journal Esclavages & post~esclavages/Slaveries & Post~Slaveries edited by Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Lotte Pelckmans

Kolonialismens vedholdenhed/The persistence of colonialism

- Seminar

Lecture series in collaboration with Kunsthal Aarhus 2021-22

Comment by Mads Anders Baggesgaard in Berlingske on the lack of memorials of the Danish participation in the Transatlantic slave trade

- Presseklip

In Danish

Grant for new research project: Authoring slavery: Authorship and agency in narratives of slavery in Ghana

- Grant

New collective research project in collaboration with colleagues from University of Ghana, Cape Coast University and National Museum of Ghana

First issue of new journal: Esclavages & Post-esclavages

- Publication

The first issue of the new journal Esclavages & Post-esclavages/Slaveries & Post-slaveries with the title Citoyenneté & contre-citoyenneté/Citizenship…

Research grant for Mads Anders Baggesgaard

- Grant

Mads Anders Baggesgaard has been granted a Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship for the book project The Freest Port? Slavery and Literature in…

Fellowships in Bonn - Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS)

- People

6 fellowships available at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), deadline March 15.

Opening seminar: Images of present-day slavery

- Seminar

November 20, 2019, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 141

CfP - The Virgin Islands in the Colonial Imaginary

- Conference

Call for papers for stream in conference - Deadline Dec. 1, 2019

Deadline for applications for Summerschool: April 1

- Kursus

The deadline for applying for our Summerschool: Reading Narratives of Slavery, Memory and Human Rights (August 1-10) is approaching.

Call for papers: Reading and Narrating Post-Slavery

- Publication

Call for papers special issue journal Slavery & Post-slavery nr. 4, 2020. Deadline for proposals April 5, 2019.

Past news

Upcoming events

No upcoming events.

Past events

Authoring Slavery: Blind Spots Exhibition and Seminar

15 Aug
Tuesday 15 August 2023, at 10:00 Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana

Seminar held in connection with the exhibition Blind Spots at the Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana

Blind spots

11 Aug
51 days, Friday 11 August 2023, at 08:30 - 30 September Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana

Exhibition at the National Museum of Ghana on forgotten aspects of the history of slavery in Ghana

Authoring Human Rights in West Africa and Beyond. Expressions of Slaveries in Literature (Texts) and the Arts (visual)

30 Jan
3 days, Monday 30 January 2023, at 14:51 - 1 February Cape Coast University, Ghana

International conference on narratives on slavery and human rights

 

Writing workshop at University of Ghana, Legon

6 Jan
3 days, Friday 6 January 2023, at 09:00 - 8 January Carnegie Writing Centre, University of Ghana, Legon

Anne Green Munk supervised a writing workshop at the Carnegie Writing Center with the participation a group of advanced creative writings students.

“Drownd herself” : Female Slave Suicides in the American South - talk by Prof. Biljana Oklopčić

28 Sep
Wednesday 28 September 2022, at 12:00 Room 1580-249

In these weeks the Centre for the Study of the Literatures and Cultures of Slavey  have the pleasure of hosting Prof. Biljana Oklopcic from the…

Authoring slavery project - Two-day seminar in Accra

1 Feb
2 days, Tuesday 1 February 2022, at 09:00 - 2 February University of Ghana, Legon

Two day seminar with Danish and Ghanaian researchers

PhD course: Ecocritism, Communication Ecology and Mobility: Representations of History and Landscapes in the Caribbean and Beyond

25 Aug
2 days, Wednesday 25 August 2021, at 09:15 - 26 August Roskilde

Organized in cooperation with the Doctoral School of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University and the PhD Programme for Art, Literature and…

Reading narratives of slavery, memory and human rights

2 Aug
12 days, Monday 2 August 2021, at 09:00 - 13 August Online

AU Summer University course

Kolonialisme: En nordisk virkelighed

9 Dec
Wednesday 9 December 2020, at 16:00 Kunsthal Aarhus

Kolonialismens vedholdenhed #4

Pandemic Power Structures

5 Nov
Thursday 5 November 2020, at 19:00 Aarhus Kunsthal

The Persistence of Colonialism #3 - talk with Achille Mbembe og Jens Seeberg

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