UNE 全球人文中心 presents “How Abolitionists Put the Body at the Center of the Fight Against Slavery”
的 campaign to undo slavery drew reformers, 激进分子, enslaved people themselves to end what many viewed as the greatest evil of their time. Abolitionists advanced arguments about the essential sameness of all human bodies and the immorality of human suffering, while defenders of slavery trumpeted specious evidence of bodily differences drawn from medical dissections and cranial measurements to argue that Blacks were an inferior race destined for servitude. Despite the eventual end to slavery, the racism embedded in the medical science of the day left a pernicious legacy that continues to imperil black bodily sovereignty, 健康, 与平等.
This is the topic scholar Kathleen M. Brown will explore when she visits the University of New England 全球人文中心 to present a lecture titled “How Abolitionists Put the Body at the Center of the Fight Against Slavery” on Monday, 9月25日下午6点.m. at the WCHP Lecture Hall in Parker Pavilion on the UNE Portland Campus for 健康 科学s.
Brown is the David Boies Professor of 历史 at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also a faculty affiliate of Africana Studies, the 历史 and Sociology of 科学, the Center for 研究 on Feminist, 酷儿, 和跨性别研究, the lead faculty historian on the Penn & 奴隶制的项目. 以前, Brown spent a year as the Pitt Professor of American 历史 and Institutions at Cambridge University, 联合王国. Her scholarship has also been supported by fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, 美国古物协会, the Omohundro Institute of Early American 历史 and Culture, the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She is the author of such books as “好妻子, 讨厌的丫头, 焦虑的家长:性别, 比赛 and Power in Colonial Virginia, Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America.”
Brown’s lecture at UNE will draw from her latest book, 《废除奴隶制:肉体, 比赛, Rights in the Age of Abolition” (宾夕法尼亚大学出版社, 2023), which explains how abolitionists endeavored to create a politics of the body that included aiding refugees who crossed state lines, insisting that all people shared “one blood,” and recognizing that slave-produced cotton, 大米, 糖, coffee materially linked the bodies of consumers and enslaved laborers.
This lecture will kick off the 15th season for the 全球人文中心, 那里的讲座总是免费的, 向公众开放, 在线直播. It will be followed by four more events this fall. 点击这里 for more information and to watch the event.
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的 全球人文中心 offers lectures by leading scholars to help us better understand the challenges besetting our civilization and outline new solutions for nations and peoples to live together without prejudice. 全球视角, the Center’s lectures are streamed live on the Internet, allowing our speakers to answer questions from any country. Because the Center believes in the vital necessity of a humanities culture to civic and democratic life, it works closely with the local community to encourage reading, 讨论, 和辩论. 的 Center was founded in 2009 by UNE scholar Anouar Majid, Ph.D.他是该机构的负责人.