After passing her PhD viva, former EUROTAST Fellow Dr Jessica Hendy started a position as a postdoctoral research assistant with Dr Camilla Speller at BioArCh, University of York. In her EUROTAST research she explored the development of novel archaeological-biomolecular methods to understand the health and diet of enslaved Africans during the transatlantic slave trade. In this new…
EUROTAST Fellow Ryan Espersen is presenting a paper at the upcoming EAA-SAA Joint Meeting Archaeological Perspectives on Slavery, Trade, and Colonialism in Curaçao, 5-7 November, 2015. Title: Manifestations of Race, Class, and Gender in Pre-Emancipation Colonial Saba, Dutch Caribbean Abstract: Saba is a small and steep island in the Dutch Caribbean, just 13 square kilometers in area and 890 meters in elevation,…
EUROTAST network members Marcela Sandoval Velasco, Kate Robson-Brown, Thomas Gilbert and Hannes Schroeder are presenting a paper along with their colleagues at the upcoming EAA-SAA Joint Meeting Archaeological Perspectives on Slavery, Trade, and Colonialism in Curaçao, 5-7 November, 2015. Title: The Freed Slaves of Saint Helena: Genomic Analyses of 19th Century Human Remains Shed Light on Enslaved Africans…
EUROTAST project coordinator Hannes Schroeder is delivering a keynote address at the upcoming EAA-SAA Joint Meeting Archaeological Perspectives on Slavery, Trade, and Colonialism in Curaçao, 5-7 November, 2015. Speaker: Hannes Schroeder Title: The EUROTAST Project: New Perspectives on the History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Its Legacies Today Abstract: The study of the…
For the second day of the Genetics/Heritage conference there were presentations from colleagues and associates of EUROTAST regarding the history, genetics, and archaeology of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Here is the program: 08:30-09:00 Coffee 09:00-09:30 Richard Benjamin – Introduction to International Slavery Museum 09:30-09:45 Hannes Schroeder & Tom Gilbert (University of Copenhagen) Summary of EUROTAST goals & the Future…
Day one of the interdisciplinary EUROTAST conference, where the fellows presented their research and senior colleagues responded to and discussed this research. Here is the program: 08:30-09:00 Morning coffee 09:00-09:10 Introduction to EUROTAST: Dr. Hannes Schroeder 09:10-10:30 Session 1 Winston Phulgence (University of York) The Past in Service of the Future: Remembering Slavery and the…
The EUROTAST fellows will be presenting the findings of their research at the upcoming Genetics/Heritage conference, 23-25 April at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. Deadline for registration to attend the conference is March 30th. To attend the conference, visit the Genetics/Heritage website. Title: A molecular perspective on disease in the transatlantic slave trade Authors: Jessica Hendy, Matthew…
The EUROTAST fellows will be presenting the findings of their research at the upcoming Genetics/Heritage conference, 23-25 April at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. Deadline for submission has been extended to March 15. To submit a paper or to attend the conference, visit the Genetics/Heritage website. Title: The Past in Service of the Future: Remembering Slavery and…
EUROTAST fellow Ryan Espersen is conducting his PhD in Archaeology at the University of Leiden under the supervision of Dr. Jay Haviser and Prof. Corinne Hofman. His research is on the historical archaeology of the Caribbean islands of Saba and St. Eustatius and his interest how notions of ‘race’ developed in the northern Dutch Caribbean. In this video…
The EUROTAST fellows will be presenting the findings of their research at the upcomingGenetics/Heritage conference, 23-25 April at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. Deadline for submission has been extended to March 15. To submit a paper or to attend the conference, visit the Genetics/Heritage website. Title: A strontium isotopic perspective on the origins of human trafficking victims…