ÿþ <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>HU History: News and Events</TITLE> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF text="#000000" link="#FF9900" vlink="#FF9900" alink="#FF6600" LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0> <TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0> <TR> <TD height="147" COLSPAN=5 background="images/banner_bg.jpg"> <IMG SRC="images/banner.jpg" WIDTH=800 HEIGHT=147 ALT=""></TD> <TR background="images/bottum_bar.gif"> <TD height="27">&nbsp;</TD> <TD COLSPAN=3 valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <!--DWLayoutTable--> <tr> <td width="799" height="27" valign="middle" background="images/bottum_bar.gif"> <div align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><a href="chair.html">CHAIR STATEMENT</a> |<a href="faculty.html"> FACULTY</a> | <a href="graduate.html">GRADUATE</a> | <a href="undergraduate.html">UNDERGRADUATE</a> | <a href="courses.htm">COURSES</a> | <a href="events.html">NEWS AND EVENTS</a> | <a href="Links.html">LINKS</a> |<a href="INDEX.HTML"> HOME</a> | <a href="HTTP://WWW.COAS.HOWARD.EDU">COAS</a> </strong></font></div></td> </tr> </table></TD></TR> <TD width="1" height="408"><!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->&nbsp; </TD> <TD width="1">&nbsp;</TD> <TD width="757" valign="top"><blockquote> <br> <br> <font><font size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>News and Events of the Academic Year 2011-2012</strong></font> <p><font><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></p> <p>On November 28, Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo (Associate Professor of History) gave the lecture <a href="http://www6.ufrgs.br/ppgs/palestras/palestra-para-alem-do-brasil-memoria-publica-da-escravidao-e-do-comercio-atlantico-de-escravos"><b>"Para Além do Brasil: Memória Pública da Escravidão e Comércio Atlântico de Escravos"</b></a> at UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Porto Alegre, Brazil. The lecture was sponsored by the Graduate Program in Sociology and the Graduate Program in History of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. </p> * * * <p>It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Abdal-Aziz Batran on October 14, 2011. Read the <a href="http://www.coas.howard.edu/history/faculty_Aziz_Batran.html"><b>obituary here</b></a>.</p> * * * <p>Congratulations to <b>Dr. Trichita Chestnut</b>, alumna of the Department of History. Dr. Chestnut was appointed as the new Deputy Director for the Indexing and Declassification Review Division at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, MD. The new appointment is effective on October 24, 2011. Neil C. Carmichael, Jr -- the Director of the Indexing/Declassification Review Division at NARA -- noted that Dr. Chestnut s experience with declassification review, indexing and her leadership abilities are essential to the National Declassification Center at NARA.</p> * * * <p><b>Professor Selwyn Carrington</b> was an invited speaker in the international conference <a href="http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Caribbean&month=1109&week=a&msg=z9DGarm4NpqM6FGtAltHYA"><b>New Perspectives on the Life and Work of Eric Williams</b></a> which commemorated the Centenary of the birth of Eric Williams. The conference was held on September 24 and 25, 2011, at St. Catherine s College, Oxford University. The conference was sponsored by St. Catherine s College, Oxford University, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, the Eric Williams Memorial Collection Research Library, Archives & Museum, and the University of the West Indies.</p> * * * <p>The Department of History, the Georgetown Institute for Global History and the African American Studies Program, Georgetown University invite you to the lecture <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Zong-Massacre-Law-End-Slavery/dp/0300125550/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317139466&sr=8-1"><i>The Zong: A Massacre, The Law, and the End of Slavery</i></a> by historian <b>James Walvin</b> (Emeritus Professor at University of York, UK) about his newest book.</p> <p>When: September 29, 2011 (Thursday)</p> <p>Time: 6:00-8:00 PM</p> <p>Where : ICC building, room 662</p> <p>Georgetown University campus</p> <p>Books will be available for purchase and signing.</p> <b>* * *</b> <br> <br> <p>The Department of History congratulates Mr. Jude Daceus a PhD candidate in Caribbean and Latin American history who was awarded The Sasakawa Young Leaders Foundation Fellowship (SYLFF). This fellowship is designed to provide full financial support to outstanding Ph.D. students admitted to candidacy with a research concentration in international affairs and/or world peace. The SYLFF fellowship is a competitive, merit-based award and is offered upon the recommendation by the SYLFF Advisory Committee at Howard University.</p> <b>* * *</b> <p>Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo, Associate Professor in the Department of History published this summer 2011 the edited book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Paths-Atlantic-Slave-Trade-Interactions/dp/1604977477/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317139495&sr=1-1 "><i>Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images</i></a>. Based on innovative and extensive research, this edited volume examines the complex and unique human, cultural, and religious exchanges that resulted from the enslavement and the trade of Africans in the North and the South Atlantic regions during the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Contributors to the volume are: Jennifer L. Anderson, Craig T. Marin, Jeffrey A. Fortin, Céline Flory, Sharla M. Fett, Peter M. Beattie, Lisa Earl Castillo, Mariana P. Candido, Wendy Wilson Fall, Peter H. Wood, Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Awam Amkpa, and Gunja SenGupta.</font></p> <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <font><font size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Annual Lectures</strong></font> <p><font><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Lorraine A. Williams Lecture</strong></p> Held each fall to encourage the dissemination of the ideas of African-American scholars in history and related disciplines, this series was established by the late Dr. Williams after she became the chair of the department. The lecture series also supports student scholarship. <p><strong>Merze Tate Annual Seminar in Diplomatic History</strong></p> Begun in 1977 to support the international scope of the department, this lecture is an opportunity to enhance communication between the department and the scholarly diplomatic community. <p><strong>Rayford W. Logan Lecture</strong></p> Established in 1970 to promote scholarly discussion of the wider African- American community, this annual spring lecture offers a scholarship prize. <p><strong>Past Academic Years' Events</strong></p> <p><b><a href="http://coas.howard.edu/history/past-events20102011.html">Academic Year 2010-2011</b></a> <p><b><a href="http://coas.howard.edu/history/past-events20092010.html">Academic Year 2009-2010</b></a> <p><b><a href="http://coas.howard.edu/history/past-events20082009.html">Academic Year 2008-2009</b></a> </font></p> </blockquote></TD> <TD width="277" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <!--DWLayoutTable--> <tr> <td width="277" height="408" valign="top"><div align="right"></div></td> </tr> </table></TD> </TR> <TR background="images/bottum_bar.gif"> <TD height="27">&nbsp;</TD> <TD COLSPAN=3 valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <!--DWLayoutTable--> <tr> <td width="799" height="27" valign="middle" background="images/bottum_bar.gif"> <div align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><a href="chair.html">CHAIR STATEMENT</a> |<a href="faculty.html"> FACULTY</a> | <a href="graduate.html">GRADUATE</a> | <a href="undergraduate.html">UNDERGRADUATE</a> | <a href="courses.htm">COURSES</a> | <a href="events.html">NEWS AND EVENTS</a> | <a href="Links.html">LINKS</a> |<a href="INDEX.HTML"> HOME</a> | <a href="HTTP://WWW.COAS.HOWARD.EDU">COAS</a> </strong></font></div></td> </tr> </table></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>