Coastal Perspectives Lecture Series 2022
Public lectures on coastal issues.
Tuesday, April 5, 2022; 7:30 p.m.
(Join us in-person or online! Sign-on information will be posted below about 1 week prior to the event.)
Jason Oliver Chang, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies and Director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut
Alexis Dudden, Ph.D., Professor of History at the University of Connecticut
CARGO – Connecticut’s Coolie History in Graphic Media and Public School Curriculum
The trade in indentured Asian workers accelerated in the wake of formal emancipation of enslaved Africans in the colonial world mid-nineteenth century. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese and South Asian laborers became replacements for slaves. Connecticut mariners and captains were involved in this trade and one poignant case, the mutiny aboard the Robert Bowne in 1852, became a crucial benchmark for international discourse on human rights at sea in the age of indenture. The research on this history has been transformed into a comic book and middle-school curriculum to deliver cutting-edge Asian American studies lessons to public school audiences.
Format for remaining lectures in 2022: in-person and online
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- Join the audio conference only:
- +1-415-655-0002 US Toll
- Use meeting number (access code) shown above.
- Or join us in-person! The event is hosted in the Avery Point Auditorium (map.pdf).
Enter from the Academic Building main entrance, the auditorium is on the second floor at the end of the hall (mobility-disabled accessible); or enter through the Student Center and go up two flights of stairs.
Lecture series is FREE and open to the public.
Lectures begin at 7:30 p.m.
A link to the online lecture is included below the event listing (scroll down, to the event). Or join us in-person! The event is hosted in the Avery Point Auditorium (map.pdf).
Enter from the Academic Building main entrance, the auditorium is on second floor at the end of the hall (mobility-disabled accessible); or enter through the Student Center and go up two flights of stairs.
This series is sponsored by Connecticut Sea Grant College Program, UConn Department of Marine Sciences, UConn Maritime Studies Program and the UConn Avery Point Campus Director’s Office.
For more information, contact: Nat Trumbull at trumbull@uconn.edu
