Lecture: "Slavery, Intimate Violence, and Black Women's Resistance"

25 Park Place Northeast,Atlanta GA 30303

01 December, 2022

Description

Jessica Marie Johnson is an Associate Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University and a Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is also the Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure. Johnson is a historian of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora. She is the author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2020) which won the 2020 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize for Louisiana History, the 2020 Rebel Women Lit Caribbean Readers’ Award, the 2021 Wesley-Logan Best Book in African Diaspora History Prize from the Association of American Historians, and the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the American Studies Association, and was named a “Best Black History Book” of 2020 by Black Perspectives, the publication of the African American Intellectual History Society. The Humanities Research Center would like to thank our generous sponsors: Georgia Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Center for Studies on Africa and its Diaspora; the Amos Family Endowment; and Georgia State’s Mellon-funded Intersectionality Collective. This is a hybrid event. To attend in person, please RSVP here. If you would like to attend over Zoom, please follow this link to complete the Zoom registration form.