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[PAST EVENT] Present Pasts: Slave Wrecks Project in Seven Shipwrecks
Location
Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium200 Stadium Dr
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Topic: Present Pasts: The World Forged by the Enslavement Trade and the Work of the Slave Wrecks Project in Seven Shipwrecks
Steve Lubkemann, guest speaker, Associate Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs and Africana Studies at The George Washington University & International Coordinator for the Slave Wrecks Project
September 28th, 2023; Commonwealth Auditorium, Sadler Center, 6:00-7:30pm
Stephen Lubkemann (Ph.D., Brown University, 2000) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs, and Africana Studies at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. As a maritime archaeologist and scholar of heritage, he has collaborated frequently over the last two decades in maritime archaeological research with the U.S. National Park Service Submerged Resources Center, as well as other partners, including the Bermuda Maritime Museum, Brown University, EARTHWATCH, Biscayne National Park, and the Southeastern Archaeological Center.
He has conducted maritime archaeological fieldwork primarily in North America and Africa. In 2008 he co-founded the Southern African Slave Wrecks and Diaspora Heritage Research Project. Renamed the Slave Wrecks Project in 2014 and currently hosted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Dr. Lubkemann has served as the International Coordinator for the project since its founding.
Dr. Lubkemann’s presentation will highlight some of the most exciting interdisciplinary research conducted by the Slave Wrecks Project through the narrative of seven shipwrecks.
This event is co-sponsored by the W&M departments of Anthropology, History and American Studies.
Contact
Richard Williams, Administrative Coordinator, [[w|rawilliams01]]