EUROTAST went to Paris for its third network training initiative the intersections between science, concepts of race and the representation of slavery and its legacies. This collaborative event was hosted by the Alliance Française and organized by the Centre International de Recherches sur les Esclavages (CIRESC), in collaboration with the Unité de Recherches “Migrations et Société”…
On 2 May 2013, the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen hosted an inspiration day for Danish teachers on slavery called “Slavery and the Slave Trade: An Interdisciplinary perspective“. The day was aimed at educators across the curriculum subject range – both in primary and high school school – and included presentations with historical, natural history, molecular biology,…
8th – 9th February / St. Maarten, Dutch Caribbean EUROTAST joined forces with the Sint Maarten Archaeological Center (SIMARC) in cooperation with Leiden University to host a 2-day symposium at the University of St. Martin in Philipsburg, entitled The Archaeology of Slavery: Reclaiming African identity from Africa to the Americas. The event was formally opened by…
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…