2021: Online (Teams)

Resistance, rebellion and revolution [SESSION #1.a.]

Talk and discussion with Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh  

Sudhir Hazareesingh’s book Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture brings us into the thick of one of the less talked about revolutions of the 18th century:  the Haitian Revolution. This session will reflect on the importance of the resistance of enslaved people in the history of the Transatlantic slave trade.

Making resources to teach the Transatlantic slave trade [SESSION #1.b.]

Collaborative workshop led by per stellas production company

Participants will guide the creation of classroom resources from content created whilst making the film for the exhibition, Slavery in the Age of Revolution. Per stellas will introduce their rich bank of content, from high quality still images of artifacts to behind-the-scenes technical footage. They will workshop with participants to find out how this content could best be reedited and packaged to support classroom teaching about the subject.

What resources do we need to support our teaching? [SESSION #1.c.]

Discussion and reflection facilitated by Naomi Tiley, Librarian and curator

Historical skills workshop 1: objects from the Museum of the American Revolution collections [SESSION #2.a.]

Interactive session led by Adrienne G. Whaley, Director of Education and Community Engagement, MOAR. 

Object-centered learning invites students of all ages to use their powers of observation, deduction, and analysis to deeply engage with material culture and work to understand the cultures and context that produced it. Teachers will explore why and how to apply relevant techniques and skills with their students using objects from the collection and exhibits of the Museum of the American Revolution.

The West African perspective [SESSION #2.b.]

Talk with Dr Jose Lingna Nafafé 

Jose Lingna Nafafé’s academic interests embrace a number of inter-related areas, linked by the overarching themes of: Lusophone Atlantic African diaspora, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Portuguese and Brazilian history; slavery and wage-labour, 1792-1850; race, religion and ethnicity; Luso-African migrants’ culture and integration in the Northern (England) and Southern Europe (Portugal and Spain); ‘Europe in Africa’ and ‘Africa in Europe’; and the relationship between postcolonial theory and the Lusophone Atlantic.

West African economics and culture [SESSION #2.c.]

Talk and discussion with Professor Toby Green

Toby Green was the Lead Consultant for the new OCR A Level History Option "African Kingdoms, 1400-1800", having written the accompanying ebook, and is a member of the OCR Consultative Forum for History. He has designed a website with teaching materials from Key Stages 3 to 5 for the UK syllabus. He is the author of A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution.

Discussion with Dr Jose Lingna Nafafé and Professor Toby Green [SESSION #2.d.]

Facilitated by Naomi Tiley, Librarian and curator

Talking about race and slavery in schools: the challenges and opportunities of teaching the Transatlantic slave trade [SESSION #3.a.]

Interactive session led by Christina Peake and Kwame Boateng from the Black Curriculum.

Historical skills workshop 2: documents from Balliol College’s historic collections [SESSION #3.b.]

Interactive session led Helena Erikstrup and Florence Smith Graduate Tutors at Oxford University's History Faculty.

**BONUS SESSION**: THURSDAY, JANUARY 27th via ZOOM presented by the Museum of the American Revolution

Webinar with Dr. Danielle Allen

Dr. Danielle Allen, a political scientist and classicist, will be speaking about her book, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality. She wrote this book after concurrently teaching both a graduate class and an adult education class that each used the Declaration as one of their texts, and having a transformative experience with the document as a result of those experiences. Discussion will be facilitated by Adrienne G. Whaley, Director of Education and Community Engagement, MoAR.

Understanding Race, Freedom and Liberty in the 18th Century: Stories From the Collection [SESSION #4.a.]

Talk and discussion with Dr. Philip Mead, Chief Historian and Curator, MoAR. 

“Race,” “freedom,” and “liberty” are familiar words, but their meaning and the lived experiences of them have changed over time. With Dr. Mead, teachers will explore objects from the Museum’s collections and exhibits to consider how people understood  these topics in the colonial and Revolutionary eras, and will place these understandings in a broader historical context.

Black lives in the archives [SESSION #4.b.]

Talk and discussion with Professor Marisa J. Fuentes

Marisa J. Fuentes is the author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive, which illuminates the lives of enslaved women in eighteenth century Bridgetown, Barbados by reading fragments of traditional archival materials “against the bias grain.” The book interrogates the archive and its historical production to challenge the methods and categories by which historians have analyzed slavery in the Atlantic World, in addition to engaging with larger questions of violence, agency, and gender.

Discussion with Professor Marisa J. Fuentes and Dr. Philip Mead [SESSION #4.c.]

Facilitated by Adrienne G. Whaley, Director of Education and Community Engagement, MOAR.

The Griot and the kora [SESSION #4.d.]

Performance and discussion with Kadialy Kouyate | Kadialy Kouyate

Kadialy will provide us with a chance to come back together at the end of the seminar to learn about the cultural significance of the kora in West Africa and listen to its beautiful sound. Kadialy is a musician and singer-songwriter inspired by the West African Griot repertoire. Born into the great line of Kouyate Griot in Southern Senegal, Kadialy’s mesmerising kora playing and singing style have been appreciated in many prestigious venues. He teaches the kora at SOAS and has been involved in countless musical projects.