Celso Castilho, "'Fellow Citizens': Slave Emancipation and the Reinvention of Political Belonging in Late-Imperial Brazil"

January 12, 2015

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm

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2015-01-12 15:45:00 2015-01-12 17:15:00 Celso Castilho, "'Fellow Citizens': Slave Emancipation and the Reinvention of Political Belonging in Late-Imperial Brazil" Celso Thomas Castilho is an Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he was hired initially as a post-doctoral fellow in 2008.  His research and teaching interests align around the themes of performance and citizenship, racial and gender formations, and comparative slavery and abolition. With Professor Jane Landers, he co-directs the Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar, funded by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. His current book project is provisionally entitled, “The Dramas of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the Americas, 1850s-1880s,” and draws on three case studies—Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, and Washington, DC—to analyze the links between Uncle Tom performances, racial and gender formations, and the practices of citizenship. TBA America/New_York public

Celso Thomas Castilho is an Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he was hired initially as a post-doctoral fellow in 2008. His research and teaching interests align around the themes of performance and citizenship, racial and gender formations, and comparative slavery and abolition. With Professor Jane Landers, he co-directs the Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar, funded by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. His current book project is provisionally entitled, “The Dramas of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the Americas, 1850s-1880s,” and draws on three case studies—Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, and Washington, DC—to analyze the links between Uncle Tom performances, racial and gender formations, and the practices of citizenship.

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