1st – 7th February / St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean Over the last couple of weeks, the EUROTAST network has been exploring the archaeology of slavery in the Dutch Caribbean. From the 1-7 February 2013, all PhD fellows received hands-on fieldwork training by participating in an ongoing excavation of an enslaved African village site associated with…
The historic city of Porto in Portugal was the location for the latest EUROTAST meeting. Hosted by our research partner at the Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology at the University of Porto (IPATIMUP), this critical skills workshop provided fellows with an opportunity to present and discuss their work with one another, whilst developing communications skills to…
Postdoc Temi Odumosu outlines EUROTAST’s early goals and thematic question for an introductory article on the Critical Investigations into Humantirianism in African (CIHA) blog. The full text is also reproduced here: The Search for African Ancestral Origins Under the Shadow of the Transatlantic Slave Trade By Dr Temi Odumosu Introduction: Identity questions “Who do you…
EUROTAST PhD Fellows Judy Watson and Erna from the University of Bristol spent the month of October on the Island of St. Helena documenting and collecting samples from the recently excavated remains of 325 enslaved African individuals. These remains originally surfaced in Ruperts Valley in 2008, following plans to build an airport runway. An archaeological…
The first EUROTAST introductory report describing the early aims and ambitions of the network, as discussed at its June Kick-Off meeting, is now available for download online. Titled Starting a New Journey: Key themes and early expectations, the report is a sythnthesis of the Kick-Off week activities and symposium presentations, and includes early thoughts and…
EUROTAST PhD fellow, Carlos da Silva Jr. has published a review of the Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale, 2010) by David Eltis and David Richardson, in Afro-Ásia – the biannual journal of the Center for Afro-Oriental Studies at Federal University of Bahia (Salvador, Brazil). This publication is dedicated to the dissemination of studies on Asian and African people,…
This week, from Monday 9th to Friday 13th July, postdoc Temi Odumosu was a co-tutor on a summer history course for A-Level students, organised by Villiers Park Education Trust in Cambridgeshire. Titled Hidden Histories: Sourcing the Past, the course provided a group of young budding historians the opportunity to explore both the study and application…
Emeritus Professor James Walvin, a leading scholar on the transatlantic slave trade, delivered a special public lecture for the EUROTAST launch at the Institute for Public Understanding of the past (IPUP), entitled Then and Now: Viewing the Transatlantic Slave Trade Over Forty Years. Professor Walvin spoke to a full auditorium, including EUROTAST fellows, York University and cultural…
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EUROTAST launched last week at the Institute for Public Understanding of the past (IPUP),University of York, from the 11 to 14 June 2012. The week provided the first opportunity for the whole network to meet one another, and for new fellows to begin their collective training journey, listening to perspectives on the transatlantic slave trade and…
On Tuesday 29 May 2012, Postdoc Temi Odumosu attended the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool (ISM) for a conference entitled Liverpool Black Atlantic, which showcased research and local resident testimonials on both the historical and contemporary experiences of Black people in Liverpool. The discussions explored the ways in which Liverpool’s diverse Black community had significantly…
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