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CANCELLED – Thinking Global, Beyond Limits. The problem of modern-day slavery: is critical applied history the answer?
March 9, 2018 at 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
| Location: | D199 Loeb Building |
| Cost: | Free |
When: Friday, March 9, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Where: Kroeger College Boardroom (D199 Loeb Building)
Prof. Audra Diptee, Department of History
Discussant: Prof. Candace Sobers, Global and International Studies
This paper suggests that historians have much more to offer in the fight against modern-day slavery and human trafficking. It argues that the modern-day abolitionist movement should reorient its approach in the fight against slavery, as it tends to rely on a sanitized, unproblematic, rendering of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century abolitionist movement while simultaneously side-stepping discussions about the impact of global neo-liberal economic order. The paper advances the notion of critical applied history which provides a methodological framework that can facilitate discussions about the role of power, historicity, and memory in shaping present-day abolitionist discourses.
To receive a copy of the paper, please register for the event via e-mail to: bgins@carleton.ca