BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8a9a7ac174b9737407419059e4069bab1683 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:GLC Annual Conference: Yale and Slavery in Historical Perspective DESCRIPTION:
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Commissioned by President Peter Salovey, a wo rking group of historians, librarians, student researchers, and community m embers is conducting a thorough research study of Yale University’s histori cal relationships with slavery, racism, and their aftermaths. On October 28-30, 2021 the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMilla n Center at Yale will host a conference on “Yale and Slavery in Historical Perspective,” presenting the research findings in process. Topics will incl ude the university’s 18th century theological roots, the economics of slave ry-created wealth, the place of Southern slaveholders at Yale, medical and scientific legacies of race at Yale, forces of abolition at the university, the labor history of the building of the institution over three centuries, and Yale’s extraordinary reconciliationist Civil War memorial, dedicated i n 1915. The conference will engage the Yale and New Haven communities as we ll as the national context of reckoning with the past. For full schedule visit: https://glc.yale.edu/events/upcoming-events /2021-annual-conference Support the Yale Club of Washington, DC The Yale Club of Washingt on, DC offers this event to our members and alumni. However, we do ask for your support in one or both of the following ways: 1) Please become a member if you are not one already. 2) Donate to the Yale Club of Washington, DC (see option on registration page). Membership dues and donations are bot h critical income sources for the Club, which enable Club operations, progr ams, and financial viability. | | | | |