Symposium on the Tanner Lecture on Human Values by David Wengrow
at University College London. He has written on the
origins of inequality, freedom and social domination, and
the archaeology of early states and civilizations in
Mesopotamia, Egypt, and beyond.
This event follows David Wengrow’s Tanner Lecture on Human Values from the previous day.
Event is Free
Lunch provided for registered attendees.
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10–11:30 a.m. — Panel 1
- “Seeing Freedom Archaeologically”
Rosemary Joyce — Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley - “Community: An Andean History”
Rohan Chatterjee — Assistant Professor of History, University of Utah - “Personhood, Self-Realization, and Imaginaries of Freedom in the Oyo Empire”
Akinwumi Ogundiran — Professor of History, Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University
12–1:30 p.m. — Keynote
“The Elementary Forms of Human Freedom, Part II: A Nightmare on the Brain of the Living”
David Wengrow — Professor of Comparative Archeology, University College London
2–3:30 p.m. — Panel 2
- “More Than Freedom: What Freedom Meant to Enslaved Black Americans in Nineteenth Century
America”
Eric Herschthal — Associate Professor of History, University of Utah - “Freedom, Liberation or Emancipation? A Reflective Query”
Anthony Bogues — Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies and History of Art and Architecture, Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University - “Practicing Feminist Freedom: Jane’s Anarchic Direct Action and Taking the Right to
Abortion”
Ella Myers — Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies, University of Utah
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