Agenda
Public lecture Professor Nigel Penn on ‘Rough Treatment: Slavery and unfree labour in the Cape Colony 1750-1900′
On 9 January 2024, Professor Nigel Penn (University of Cape Town) will deliver the public lecture ‘Rough Treatment: Slavery and unfree labour in the Cape Colony 1750-1900’. This lecture is organised by the multidisciplinary research group Colonial Relations and Structures at Radboud University.
In this public lecture, visiting scholar Nigel Penn from the University of Cape Town will present his research on the Khoisan and Slave Revolt of 1801, exploring how race, class and gender oppressions combined to provoke a major anti-colonial uprising in the Cape Colony. Afterwards you are cordially invited to join the opening of the travelling South African exhibition ‘Fugitives’ on the ground floor of the Erasmus Building. This exhibition is a unique and innovative research and art hybrid collaboration, in which pracademic and forensic facial imaging specialist Kathryn Smith (Stellenbosch University) reconstructed portraits of 19th-century runaway enslaved people together with historians.
Attendance is free of charge, prior registration however is requested.
