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On 17 Aug, 2015
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AUGUST 2015: PLOS ONE Publication of The Genomic Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Yungas Valley of Bolivia

The Genomic Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Yungas Valley of Bolivia Tanja Heinz, Jorge Mario Cárdenas, Vanesa Álvarez-Iglesias, Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Carla Santos, Patricia Taboada-Echalar, Antonio Salas In August 2015, EUROTAST research network members Tanja Heinz and Antonio Salas published research on the genetic ancestry of relatively isolated Afro-Bolivian communities in…

On 16 Mar, 2015
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MARCH 2015: A ‘New Guinea’ in the Americas: Enslaved Africans in the Eighteenth-Century Salvador, Brazil

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 ‘New Guinea’ in the Americas: Enslaved Africans in the Eighteenth-Century Salvador, Brazil…

On 23 Feb, 2015
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FEBRUARY 2015: Computational Reconstruction of Hans Jonatan’s Genome

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: Computational Reconstruction of Hans Jonatan’s Genome Authors: Anuradha Jagadeesan and…

On 27 Oct, 2014
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EUROTAST VIDEO: Jessica Hendy

EUROTAST fellow Jessica Hendy is a scientist and archaeologist who studies health and disease during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. She is based at the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and is supervised by Dr. Matthew Collins. Check out the video for more about Jessica’s fascinating research!

On 22 Oct, 2014
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OCTOBER 2014: Jessica Hendy and Winston Phulgence on BBC Radio York

Winston Phulgence and Jessica Hendy appeared on BBC York with Elly Fiorentini to talk about their EUROTAST research. Listen to their segment above, or the whole show on the BBC website. They chatted with Elly about the importance of educating students in Europe, Africa, North America, and the Caribbean about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and…

On 20 Oct, 2014
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EUROTAST VIDEO: Winston Phulgence

EUROTAST fellow Winston Phulgence is conducting his PhD in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, supervised by Jonathan Finch. His work on memorialization and the Transatlantic Slave Trade reaches from Ghana, to the Caribbean, and into the United States. In this video we hear Winston describe his project, as we try to capture…

On 4 Oct, 2013
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Sept 2013: Network midterm in Copenhagen with career training and symposium on transatlantic slavery in Scandinavia

EUROTAST convened in Copenhagen for its midterm meeting and fourth network training initiative, which was comprised of a four-day career development workshop and symposium on the history and legacies of the transatlantic slave trade in Scandinavia. 1. Career Development workshop The skills training was organised by the EUROTAST coordinating team at the Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural…

On 3 Oct, 2013
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With Comments Off on Sept 2013: Postdoc Temi Odumosu gives slavery images seminar for UNESCO Associated Teachers Network in Copenhagen

Sept 2013: Postdoc Temi Odumosu gives slavery images seminar for UNESCO Associated Teachers Network in Copenhagen

The Danish UNESCO Associated Teachers Network meets annually in Copenhagen to expand their teaching practices and explore new perspectives and resources on the history and legacies of the transatlantic slave trade. Coordinated by Danish history teacher Peder Wiben, the network comprises of school teachers in a number of subject disciplines from schools teaching this history…

On 3 Oct, 2013
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Sept 2013: PhD Fellows present at British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology annual meeting

EUROTAST fellows, Judy Watson, Erna Johannesdottir, Jessica Hendy and Cesar Fortes-Lima delivered podium and poster presentations at the annual meeting of the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) at the University of York on the 13th -15th of September 2013. Cesar Fortes-Lima outlined his research on using modern genetic data to reconstruct the history…

On 27 May, 2013
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May 2013: Network discusses race and representation in Paris and visits Nantes memorial

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”…