In association with the Alliance Française , please join us for an evening of discussion about the place of slavery and the abolition in current memory debates in France and the wider French-speaking world, presented by Professor Charles Forsdick.
Complimentary refreshments will be provided following the lecture.
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About Professor Charles Forsdick
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool, UK. His research and teaching interests include Francophone postcolonial literature, French colonial history and translation studies. Recent publications include the co-edited volumes The Black Jacobins Reader (Duke UP, 2017) and Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols in Modern France (Liverpool UP, 2021). Charles is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Academy of Europe.
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Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, 27 April 1848, 1849, by François Auguste Biard, Palace of Versailles
