Thursday, April 2, from 5 to 6 p.m., University of Amsterdam history professor Dienke Hondius will present “Mapping Urban European Histories of Slavery” at Carleton College in Leighton Hall Room 304.
Hondius’ areas of research include the history, historiography and sociology of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, 'race', racism, toleration, equality, genocide, ethnicity, intermarriage, transatlantic slave trade, slavery, African-European encounters, international, interreligious and interracial intimacy, migration, empire, postcolonialism, European expansion, Surinam, Dutch Caribbean, Africa, racial imagery, history of the Jews in the Netherlands, oral history.
This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Department of History Herbert P. Lefler Lectureship Fund, along with support from the Departments of African and African American Studies, European Studies, and the Dean of Students Office. For more information, including disability accommodations, please call (507) 222-4217. Leighton Hall is located at the end of College Street on the Carleton campus.