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Dr. Peabody Publishes Essay

Sue Peabody’s essay, “Political and Legal Histories,” has just been published in Writing the History of Slavery, edited by David Doddington & Enrico Dal Lago, Bloomsbury “Writing History” Series (London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2022), 153-170. One of 19 historiographical chapters addressing different approaches to writing the history of slavery for students, this essay includes sections on “the political state as a frame,” “slavery and the law in the United States,” “comparative histories of slavery and abolition,” and “autobiography, biography, and microhistory.”

Dr. Kawamura on “Violence, Atrocity, and Restraint in War” Panel Discussion

The Pritzker Military Museum and Library in Chicago will host a symposium “What is Military History Today?” on March 31 and April 1.

Noriko Kawamura is invited to participate in a panel discussion on “Violence, Atrocity, and Restraint in War.” The symposium will be livestreamed but registration is required by March 28. For further information go to the link below.
https://www.pritzkermilitary.org/onwar2022

Dr. Peabody in Furcy, le procès de la liberté [Furcy: The Freedom Suit]

Sue Peabody participated in the plenary opening session of the Society for French Historical Studies in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the screening of the French documentary,Furcy, le procès de la liberté [Furcy: The Freedom Suit], based upon her award-winning book, Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford UP, 2017). Together with the director, Pierre Lane, they discussed the making of the film, just released with English subtitles, in which she appears as a “talking head.”

In addition, Oxford University Press has released Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies in paperback for the first time.

Victor Moore Presents at University of Maryland History Graduate Student Association Annual Conference

MA student Victor Moore presented “A Historiographical Examination of the Causes of Trinidad and Tobago’s Black Power Revolution of 1970″ at the 16th Annual Conference of the University of Maryland History Graduate Student Association, with the theme this year of “Conflict, Protest, Insurrection, Coup.” 
This presentation was via Zoom on Friday, March 18th .