RSS Feedhttps://cc.au.dk/en/slaverystudiesen-gbTue, 27 Oct 2026 13:05:53 +0100Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:05:53 +0100TYPO3 EXT:newsnews-35625Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:15:00 +0100Between dispossession and resistance Seminar on representations of slavery in 18th and 19th century textsDiscussions of the representation of slavery are always caught in a tension between, on the one hand, maintaining the gravity of the realities faced by the enslaved — including dehumanisation, dispossession, and even social death — and, on the other hand, acknowledging the agency of enslaved people: their small acts of resistance, their use of the limited spaces left for human expression, and the large-scale revolts they organised.

In this seminar, we will explore this space between these poles, examining both the possibilities for creative and meaningful life within an exploitative system and the ways in which acts of resistance could, paradoxically, be appropriated to reinforce that very system.  The discussions will be based on readings of texts from the 18th and 19th century.

The seminar will consist of three short presentations followed by a joint discussion:

Enit Karafili Steiner. University of Lausanne
Poetics of Dispossession in the Transatlantic Slavery, 1789-1863

Stephanie Volder, Linacre College, University of Oxford
Entangled Islands: Imagining the End of Slavery in Jamaica Through the Trope of the Haitian Revolution, 1791-1834

Jonas Ross Kjærgaard, Aahus University
The Non-Recognition of Independence: Imagining Haiti in the Literature of the Age of Revolution

If you are interested in attending please send an email to madsbaggesgaard@cc.au.dk 

]]>Mads Anders BaggesgaardThu, 26 Feb 2026 14:15:00 +0100Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0100Kasernen, Langelandsgade 144, building 1586, room 114Kasernen, Langelandsgade 144, building 1586, room 1141772111700177211800017721117001772118000news-30337Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0200Representing slavery in GhanaThe seminar deals with strategies and problems related to the contemporary representation of the Transatlantic slave trade in what is today Ghana. The Middle Passage has been seen as emblematic for the trade, but the part of history that became before it, in the hinterlands and coasts of West Africa are often left out of the history. Our three speakers highlights the complexities inherent in narrating this story and presenting it both in a European and West African context.Program

10.00 Welcome, Mads Anders Baggesgaard

10.15 Emmanuel Saboro, Cape Coast University, Ghana: Historical and Cultural Memories of the Slave Trade in Ghana: The Hidden and Lost Stories that Spaces and Places Tell

10.45 William Nsuiban, Ghana Monu: “’Blind Spots: Unveiling the Shadows’, exhibiting slavery in contemporary Ghana”

11.15 Break

12.00 Jeppe Brixvold: Presentation of the novel ”I de levendes verden” (In The World of the Living, 2023)

12.45 Panel discussion: Representing slavery in Ghana

]]>Mads Anders BaggesgaardSun, 13 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0200Sun, 13 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0200Godsbanen Vogn 1, Indgang 3H, Kjeld Tolstrups Gade 3, Aarhus.Godsbanen Vogn 1, Indgang 3H, Kjeld Tolstrups Gade 3, Aarhus.1728806400172881720017288064001728817200news-30335Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0200Dialogue with Africahttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dialog-med-afrika-pen-litteraturfestival-12-oktober-i-wind-nielsen-sbnjf/?trackingId=GxxtX0I0UJSKzETQZW0Kvw%3D%3DSeminar in collaboration with Danish PENMads Anders BaggesgaardSat, 12 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +020017287200001728720000