{"id":246,"date":"2022-09-23T19:36:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T19:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history2022\/?page_id=246"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:25:09","slug":"circum-atlantic-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/circum-atlantic-speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Circum Atlantic Speaker Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2001, with the sponsorship of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Jane Landers of the History Department and Sean Goudie, of the English Department, launched the interdisciplinary Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar. <\/em>\u00a0Celso Castilho joined Landers as co-director in 2018-2020 and from 2020-2023, Landers co-directed the seminar with Daniel Genkins.<\/p>\n

Beginning as a weekly seminar where Vanderbilt faculty and graduate students shared interdisciplinary work-in-progress on the Atlantic World, it evolved into a long-lived speakers\u2019 series that brought both junior and senior scholars of Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean to Vanderbilt. CASS has also organized a series of topical seminars on Atlantic Africa, Brazil, and Cuba.<\/p>\n

Black Atlantic Speakers Series<\/span><\/h2>\n

In 2007, with ongoing support from CASS sponsors, Landers launched a new Black Atlantic Speakers Series. This long-lived series has hosted world-renowned scholars of the Black Atlantic to speak about their research and publications during Black History Month.<\/p>\n

Over the years, The Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar has received generous support from the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities; the Department of History; the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and LatinX Studies; the Jean & Alexander Heard Library; the Department of African American & Diaspora Studies; the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Culture Center; the Vanderbilt International Office and the Graduate School\u2019s VU-EDGE Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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