on slavery and 'construction' of race
The relationship between the enslavement of Africans and historic attitudes about race will be explored in the fifth international conference sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition.
Titled "Collective Degradation: Slavery and the Construction of Race," the event will take place Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7 and 8, in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
The conference organizers write: "While scholars have largely accepted the view that race is a socially-constructed concept, the complex processes of its formation are not well understood in large part because of the wide and diverse range of contributing factors."
This event, they add, will bring together scholars of Graeco-Roman and Biblical antiquity, medieval Europe and early Islam, and authorities on Enlightenment through early 20th-century European and American racial thought to "explore the relationship between the enslavement of Africans and the construction of early and modern conceptions of race and racial hierarchies."
There will be sessions at 9 a.m., 12:45 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. on Friday, and at 8 a.m., 10:45 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday. The event will conclude on Saturday with a summation at 4:45 p.m. by Tom Holt of the University of Chicago.
There is a fee for the conference. For details and to register, visit www.yale.edu/glc/events/race/schedule.htm.
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