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SUMMARY:Django's phrenologist: science\, slavery and the material culture 
 of race\, 1791-1863 - Dr James Poskett\, Darwin College
DTSTART:20161011T120000Z
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CONTACT:Julius Weitzdörfer
DESCRIPTION:"Born a slave on the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1773\,
  Eustache Belin spent his youth toiling in the sugar mills. But amidst the
  Haitian Revolution of 1791\, he escaped to Paris. Incredibly\, in the 183
 0s\, a French phrenologist took a cast of Eustache's head. Over the next t
 hirty years\, Eustache became a focal point for discussion of African char
 acter. In this talk\, I follow the bust of Eustache as it travelled back a
 nd forth across the Atlantic Ocean. In doing so\, I reassess the relations
 hip between science\, slavery and race in the early nineteenth century.\n\
 nDr James Poskett is the Adrian Research Fellow at Darwin College\, Univer
 sity of Cambridge. He works broadly on the global and imperial history of 
 science between 1750 and 1900\, having completed his PhD at the Department
  of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge. He is currently comple
 ting a book on the global history of phrenology."
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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