Rival Geographies? Slavery, Space and Human Movement in Nineteeth-Century Cuba.
Camillia Cowling is assistant professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick. Her work focuses on slavery and abolition in nineteenth century Cuba and Brazil. Her publications include Conceiving Freedom: Women of
Colour, Gender and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013), which won the Brazilian Studies Association’s Roberto Reis Prize and was shortlisted for the Frederick Douglass Prize. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Gender & History, Social History, Cuban Studies/ Estudios Cubanos, Afro-Asia, and Luso-Brazilian Review.
Date:
28 January 2016, 17:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2016)
Venue:
1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details:
Latin American Centre, Main Seminar Room
Speaker:
Camillia Cowling (University of Warwick)
Part of:
Latin American Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Laura Spence
