Panelists are invited to share insights from which Yale and other institutions might learn. Leaders of slavery studies at their respective universities will explore comparative experiences associated with projects designed to probe the depths of their institution’s histories, memorializations, and interpretations. Blight* (Director, Gilder Lehrman Center Sterling Professor of American History, Yale University) Peter Salovey (President, Yale University).Jonathan Holloway (President of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey).Elizabeth Alexander (President of the Andrew W.Blight* (Chair of the Yale and Slavery Working Group Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale)
KEYNOTE CONVERSATION: Universities, Slavery, and Memory WELCOME: Peter Salovey (President, Yale University) Our conference playlist can be found here: The conference engaged the Yale and New Haven communities as well as the national context of reckoning with the past.Įmail comments & questions regarding this conference to version of this schedule can be found here: Topics included the university’s 18th century theological roots, the economics of slavery-created wealth, the place of Southern slaveholders at Yale, medical and scientific legacies of race at Yale, forces of abolition at the university, the labor history of the building of the institution over three centuries, and Yale’s extraordinary reconciliationist Civil War memorial, dedicated in 1915. On October 28-30, 2021 the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale hosted a conference on “Yale and Slavery in Historical Perspective,” presenting the research findings in process. You can find recordings of each session here:Ĭommissioned by President Peter Salovey, a working group of historians, librarians, student researchers, and community members is conducting a thorough research study of Yale University’s historical relationships with slavery, racism, and their aftermaths. 28-30, 2021 | Yale University, New Haven, CT Yale and Slavery in Historical Perspective
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