Posts tagged with ‘slavery’
2018 Institute for the Study of Slavery Annual Public Lecture
This lecture explores examples from different former slave societies in the Americas, Europe, and Africa to interrogate the complex dialogues between the concepts of history and memory as well as the ideas of symbolic, financial, and material reparations.
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Help us analyse satellite images for sites of slavery
Calling all computer scientists and programmers. Do you have the skills to design an automated program […]
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Tags: human rights, human slavery, modern slavery, rights lab, satellite, satellite imaging, slavery
Collaborating for Freedom: Strengthening Anti-Slavery Partnerships
Join us for a national conference on local, community-based anti-slavery strategies, partnerships and action.
Tags: Collaborating for Freedom, ending slavery, ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, IASC, Kevin Hyland, rights lab, slavery, UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner
Dreadlocks Story
Presented as part of Black History Month 2017, Dreadlocks Story is a historical page which exhibits the bonds of the survival of African and Indian culture in Jamaica in view of upfront anti-slavery and anti-imperialist struggles.
Tags: Black History Month, BME Network, dreadlocks story, Linda Aïnouche, slavery
Our Research Vision: introducing the Rights Lab
The University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab is working to help end global slavery by 2030. It […]
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Tags: academic research, Beacons of Excellence, investment in research, research vision, rights lab, slavery
The Freedom Blueprint: how we end contemporary slavery
Professor Zoe Trodd will lay out facts, figures and definitions for global slavery, then discuss the world’s first large-scale research platform for ending slavery—a new Beacon of Excellence at the University of Nottingham that is working to help end slavery by 2030.
New Masters course in slavery and liberation
We are now offering an exciting new MA in slavery and liberation. The course will be […]
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Tags: human rights, liberation, masters, politics, slavery, slavery free
Modern Slavery Policy and Podcast
The University is committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in […]
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Tags: modern slavery, modern slavery and human trafficking policy, modern slavery policy, podcast, slavery
Anti-Slavery International student chapter: Preliminary meeting
Anti-Slavery International, a leading global charity dedicated to fighting contemporary slavery, is setting up a network of student activist chapters. They are looking for committed, socially engaged students to spearhead the University of Nottingham branch and to lead innovative fundraising and awareness-raising campaigns both on campus and in the wider community.
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Unlocking the science of slavery
Join us for a lecture by Professor Kevin Bales on ‘Unlocking the Science of Slavery’. Professor Kevin Bales is Professor of Contemporary Slavery in the School of Politics and International Relations at The University of Nottingham.
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