Joint University College Cork and University of Maryland Seminar on Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Connections

Join the University of Maryland and University College Cork for a joint conference on Monday, October 20, 2014 in the Margaret Brent Room of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. All are welcome.

 

Frederick Douglass, born and raised on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, set out to abolish North American slavery and many other forms of Western oppression. Not only did he succeed in aiding Emancipation in the United States, but also in addressing Irish poverty, the Famine, and Home Rule. He was also a firm advocate of women’s suffrage.

 

The Graduate School of the University of Maryland and the Graduate School of University College Cork initiated a year-long collaboration on understanding Frederick Douglass through issues of slavery and freedom by establishing a course taught simultaneously in Ireland and in Maryland in January 2014.

 

The culmination of joint scholarship among doctoral students in Anthropology at Maryland and doctoral students in Literature at University College Cork takes place on Monday, October 20, 2014.

 

University of Maryland students are all historical archaeologists and will be discussing landscapes of slavery and freedom in Maryland and Virginia. There will be papers featuring Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Annapolis, and Northern Virginia. University College Cork students will deal with Douglass’s visit to Ireland and other transatlantic cultural cross-connections.