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21st UGRR Conference with Alvin Pettit https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-new-harriet-tubman-statue-unveiled-alvin-pettit/
21st Annual UGRR Conference on February 21, 2024 hosted Alvin Pettit, SculptorAlvin Pettit
19th Annual Underground Railroad and Black History Conference – “Digital Learning” February 16, 2022
Forthcoming UGRR conference, February 16, 2022 Our Annnual conference will celebrate its 19th anniversary on February 16, 2022. The conference is free and open to all. Pre-registration is recommended. Call for papers: Send inquiries to anadolu@temple.edu Requested: 250 word abstracts and a short bio of 100 words. Papers on any aspect of digital technology, and its …
America Seeks Justice and Healing: Summer of 2020
In the midst of a global pandemic, and civil rights protests in 2020, America is looking for justice and healing. https://www.ataa.org/newsletter/dispossessed-america-in-pursuit-of-justice-and-healing-during-covid-19
Seeking Justice Frederick Douglass and William L. Garrison Collaborated
In 1841, William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass formed a partnership that would last a decade and forever change the abolitionist movement. Throughout the stages of their extraordinary alliance, anti-slavery mobilization was accelerated, reaching its height between 1841 and 1851. Centering their arguments on emancipation, women’s equality, and suffrage, the two men worked tirelessly to …
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Forthcoming Article on Julia Pardoe’s Travel Narrative on Istanbul “Transnationalizing Space and Identity in 19th century”
As a young British author, Julia Pardoe arrived Istanbul in 1834 and compiled one of the most fascinating narratives on Istanbul and Turkish culture in 1836. The three-volume book was an immediate success and it went through several editions. It featured sketches and drawings of Bosphorus, as well as street scenes, depicting men, women and …
Dismantling Slavery published by University of Tennessee Press
Chapter on Divine Motherhood in Antiquity: Cybele and Artemisia
“From Cybele to Artemisia: Motherhood and Great Mothers of Ancient Anatolia,” in Motherhood in the Ancient World. eds. Dana Cooper and Claire Phelan, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). This chapter investigates female deities of Ancient Anatolia, in particular Cybele. While I was completing the research, a miraculous event took place. A 2,100 year-old statue …
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Research on Civil Rights Drama by Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature, March 2015 Title: “Drama and Performance from Civil Rights to Black Arts” Civil Rights Movement impacted all aspects of American life, including arts and theater. I analyzed the impact of socio-cultural developments throughout Sixties and Seventies, on African American theater, the Black Arts Movement and timeless productions …
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