News & Events
Vincent Brown
Dunwalke Associate Professor of American HistoryAfrican and African American Studies Department, Harvard University
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Olin Sang 207
The Reaper's Garden: Social Death and
Political life in the History of Slavery
Vincent Brown is a multimedia historian with a keen interest in the political implications of cultural practice, who teaches courses in early American history, African Diaspora studies, and the history of slavery.
He is currently writing "Specter in the Canes: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery." The book shows how people in Jamaican slave society strove to achieve their political ambitions and communal desires through the cultural practices that related the living to the dead.
At Harvard's Film Study Center, Brown is producing "Melville and the Motherland," an audiovisual documentary about Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering anthropologist who established the study of the African Diaspora in the United States.