Cfp - Family and slavery: A Workshop with Brenda Stevenson

The Edinburgh Centre for Global History, University of Edinburgh, invites proposals for a workshop with Professor Brenda Stevenson. The workshop - scheduled to take place on 25 April - will provide a supportive space for PhD students, and those who have recently submitted their PhDs, to present and receive feedback on chapters or detailed dissertation research proposals relating to any aspect of the theme of 'Slavery and Family'. Up to 5 students or recent PhD graduates will be selected to share a piece of writing of up to 8,000 words for intensive discussion and feedback from Professor Stevenson and other workshop participants. As well as presenting their own work, participants will be expected to read and participate in discussion of other participants’ work.

The workshop will also be open to participants who do not submit papers but commit to reading all the submitted work in advance. Those selected to participate will be notified soon after the deadline for submissions. Work for circulation will be due by 10 April 2023.

The workshop will be in person.

Detailed timings and location will be published after participants have been selected.

Deadline for submissions: 3 March 2023

Workshop: 25 April 2023

Eligibility

The workshop is open to PhD students and recent PhDs (those whose PhDs were submitted September 2020 or later) in relevant fields from any university. Priority may be given to students at the University of Edinburgh and other Scottish Institutions. We hope to be able to support travel expenses for those coming

Applications

To apply, please submit an abstract of up to 300 words, using the form below.

Applications

If you will be traveling from elsewhere in Scotland to Edinburgh we may be able to cover your travel costs. If you would like to apply for your travel and accommodation costs to be covered, please provide an estimate of costs in your application, assuming standard class train travel and, where available, advance purchase fares. Participants from outside Scotland are welcome but we will be unlikely to be able to support their travel costs.

Professor Brenda Stevenson

Professor Brenda Stevenson is Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women’s History at St John’s College, University of Oxford. She is a leading scholar of slavery, race and gender. Her book-length works include 'The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke' (Oxford 1988); 'Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South' (Oxford 1996); 'The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the L.A. Riots' (Oxford 2013); and 'What is Slavery?' (Polity 2015).

Professor Stevenson will also deliver a public lecture at 5.00 pm on Tuesday 25 April 2023, the 2023 Lecture in the History of Slavery to the Edinburgh Centre for Global History, on 'Slavery, family, and resistance'. We expect that workshop participants will also attend Professor Stevenson’s lecture.