Virtual Lunch With Friends and Strangers: Lisa Lindsay
Friday, June 5 | 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Wherever You Are
Price: Complimentary
Click in with Carolina Public Humanities for this series, Lunch With Friends and Strangers: Conversations With UNC’s Faculty. This virtual lunch talk features a discussion of James Churchill Vaughan (1883 – 1937), Finding Real African Roots, during a conversation with Lisa Lindsay.
Lisa Lindsay, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor; Department Chair, History
Lisa Lindsay’s research centers on the social history of West Africa, particularly Nigeria, and on links between Africa and other parts of the world. Although over time her primary focus has moved from gender to slavery, in all of her work she endeavors to understand large-scale processes through human-scale experiences, and to attend to African particularities as well as points of larger comparison and connection. Her most recent project is the contextualized biography of a South Carolina freedman who in the 1850s migrated to modern-day Nigeria, making trans-Atlantic connections that his descendants and their American relatives maintain to this day. She is also beginning work on a history of women and gender in the Atlantic slave trade.