Winter/Spring
2002
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Winter/Spring
2002
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CIC and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History have announced an inaugural seminar for CIC history faculty members to discuss the latest issues in slavery studies. The Gilder Lehrman Institute was established in 1994 to promote the study of American history. Faculty members in American history and related fields at CIC institutions will be selected to participate in "The Slavery Debates: Problems in Slavery Studies Today," a week-long seminar at Columbia University in New York City. Participants will exchange ideas with one of the most renowned scholars of slavery in the world, David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and director of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Also sharing the leadership of the seminar will be Professor Orlando Patterson of Harvard University. Participants at the seminar will examine the major scholarly works and turning points in the historiographical debates over slavery; discuss new research on the slave trade, slave culture, and resistance; examine changes in Western culture that made anti-slavery a possibility; and explore the differences among slaveholding regimes in New England, the Chesapeake, Carolinas, Barbados, and other areas. The seminar will include lectures and discussion groups, visits to scholarly archives, and a chance to observe "history high schools" in New York—special history programs throughout New York created and supported by the Gilder Lehrman Institute, where the students take an extra course of American history each day for four years. CIC President Richard Ekman said, "It is no overstatement to characterize this seminar as unique in all respects. We are most grateful to the Gilder Lehrman Institute for its confidence in CIC member institutions." Thirty individuals will be selected by competitive nomination; faculty members who wish to participate must be nominated by the chief academic officer of the nominee’s institution. The nomination deadline was Friday, March 29, 2002, and selected participants will be announced Monday, April 15. For more information, visit the CIC website at www.cic.edu. Independent |
