Friday, May 6
2:00–6:30pm
Rooms 9204 & 9205
The Graduate Center

I: Panel | 2:00-4:00pm
ATLANTIC IMPROVISATIONS

Vincent Brown (Harvard University)
“The Coromantee War and the Martial Geography of Atlantic Slavery”

David Kazanjian (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World”

Moderated by Kelly Baker Josephs (York College, CUNY)

[Coffee Break]

II: Book Discussion | 4:30-6:30pm
LAURENT DUBOIS, THE BANJO: AMERICA’S AFRICAN INSTRUMENT

Laurent Dubois (Duke University) in conversation with Vincent Brown (Harvard University), Duncan Faherty (The Graduate Center/Queens College, CUNY), and Kandia Crazy Horse (musician/performer/critic).

[Reception to Follow]