’As We Found Them’ and ‘As They Are Now’: The Freedchild and the Future after Slavery
Professor Mary N. MITCHELL
University of New Orleans
When: Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 17:00
Where: University of New Orleans-Saal of the Main University Building Christoph-Probst-Platz, Innrain 52, Innsbruck
Prof. Mary N. Mitchell is associate professor of history at the University of New Orleans and a specialist for slavery and emancipation in the US south and the rest of the Americas. Her recently published book “Raising Freedom’s Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery” has been widely praised in the American public.
Prof. Mitchell received her PhD from New York University in 2001 and has received fellowships and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Studies Association, and the American History Association.
Please join us for this informative and stimulating lecture with discussion, followed by a reception.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Grabher
Dr. Margaret Davidson
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Mathis