Celebrating Birthdays and the Abolition Act: Liverpool's memory of slavery in 1907, 1957 and 2007 Event
- Time:
- 13:00
- Date:
- 3 May 2017
- Venue:
- Avenue Campus, 65/1095
For more information regarding this event, please email Mary Andrew at M.J.Andrew@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Part of the Centre for Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Seminar Series
Speaker information
Dr Jessica Moody ,University of Portsmouth,Joined the University of Portsmouth in 2014 from the University of York where I was a Research Associate with the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP). I completed my PhD in History at York and taught undergraduate and postgraduate History, including on the University’s Public History MA programme. I also have a professional background in museums, having previously worked for National Museums Liverpool, and have a Master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Management (York, 2008). My research interests focus around heritage, public history, collective memory, and the various ways in which people engage with (and have historically engaged with) the past. I have particular interests in engagements with dissonant heritage and difficult histories, in particular the representation of transatlantic slavery in the Atlantic world, and in national commemorations and anniversaries such as the centenary of the First World War.