Survivors of the Middle Passage: Autobiographical
Accounts of Enslaved Africans in British America
A
lecture and discussion by Jerome S. Handler
New
York, N.Y. -- The Barnard Forum on Migration continues
its Fall 2000 program with a lecture and discussion
by Jerome S. Handler, Survivors of the Middle
Passage: Autobiographical Accounts of Enslaved
Africans in British America on Thursday, Nov.
30, 5:30 p.m., Barnard Hall, 117th and Broadway.
Welcoming
remarks will be given by Professor of English
and Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social
Order Caryl Phillips. Ann Whitney Olin Professor
of Anthropology Nan Rothschild will introduce
Dr. Handler.
Handler,
senior fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the
Humanities, specializes in African-American social
and cultural history, Caribbean and West African
societies, peasant and plantation communities
in the Caribbean, and slavery in the New World.
In an effort to broaden, enrich, and contextualize
his understanding of these studies, Handler has
undertaken fieldwork and research in Barbados,
Jamaica, the United Kingdom, France, the Caribbean
territories, Mali, Senegal, and Mexico.
Handler
received his B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology from
UCLA, and a Ph.D in Anthropology from Brandeis
University. Prior to his appointment at the Virginia
Foundation, Handler held teaching and research
positions at the University of London, the University
of the West Indies, Colgate University, and Harvard
University. Handler has been the recipient of
numerous honors, including over 25 different fellowships
and grants, the most recent of which was awarded
by The National Endowment for the Humanities.
He is a member of the American Anthropological
Association, the Association of Caribbean Historians,
the Caribbean Studies Association, the Society
for Caribbean Studies and the Society for Historical
Archaeology. Handler has written several articles,
and is also the author of five books. He is presently
at work on his sixth, entitled Africans and
Creoles: The Social and Cultural Life of Barbados
Slaves, 1627-1834.
Survivors
of the Middle Passage: Autobiographical Accounts
of Enslaved Africans in British America is
part of the Barnard Forum on Migration, which
sponsors special events including lectures, readings,
and films exploring issues connected to the movement
of people from one part of the world to another.
Each year, the Forum hosts distinguished writers
and academics who address a broad range of issues
relating to questions of migration and social
order.
The Barnard Forum on Migration is supported by
a bequest establishing the Weiss International
Fellowship Fund to bring distinguished scholars
in literature and the arts to Barnard. The forum
is organized by Caryl Phillips, a prize-winning
novelist and the Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration
and Social Order. Phillips is the author of six
novels, many of them exploring issues of migration.
His latest non-fiction work, The Atlantic Sound,
explores the complex notion of what constitutes
"home."
The
next Barnard Forum on Migration will be held on
Jan. 25, 2001, and is titled The Writer as
Witness: An Evening with Joan Didion.
Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Public Affairs, 212-854-7907
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