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…
Genome-wide ancestry of 17th-century enslaved Africans from the Caribbean Hannes Schroeder, María C. Ávila-Arcos, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, G. David Poznik, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Meredith L. Carpenter, José Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Martin Sikora, Philip L. F. Johnson, Morten Erik Allentoft, José Alfredo Samaniego, Jay B. Haviser, Michael W. Dee, Thomas W. Stafford, Jr., Antonio Salas, Ludovic Orlando, Eske Willerslev,…
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…
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”…