ANN: Dr. Temi Odumosu, "Routes and Roots: The 'New Genetics' of Slavery" Lecture

Dr. Temi Odumosu (Malmö University): Routes and Roots: The “New Genetics” of Slavery.

November 2, 2020 
12:00 PM - 1:00 P.M. MST
 

Free online lecture. Please register here.

This lecture explores the interdisciplinary work of science and humanities researchers in the EUROTAST Marie Curie Training network. The focus is on key research questions and methodological approaches to interpreting new evidence on the history and contemporary legacies of the transatlantic slave trade. 

Dr. Temi Odumosu is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Malmö University in Sweden and the author of the award-winning Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes White Humour (2017). Her research and curatorial practices concern colonial archives/archiving, slavery and visuality, race and visual coding in popular culture, postmemorial art and performance, image ethics and the politics of digitisation.

To read more about Dr. Odumosu’s work, please visit: http://www.temiodumosu.com. 

Presented by the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and Intersections of Gender, University of Alberta, with the support from the Distinguished Visitors Fund (Vice-President Research and Innovation) in collaboration with Augustana Campus.