IOWC - 2007 Conference: Afua Cooper Reading> <link href="/css/layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link href="/css/format.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link href="/css/events.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body>  <div id="header"> <a name="top"></a> <ul> <li><a href="/mission/">Mission</a></li> <li><a href="/people/director.php">People</a></li> <li><a href="/events/">Events</a></li> <li><a href="/research/">Research</a></li> <li><a href="/resources/">Resources</a></li> <li><a href="/fellowships.php">Fellowships</a></li> <li><a href="/contact.php">Contact</a></li> </ul> <div id="logo"> <p><a href="/">Indian Ocean World Centre</a></p> </div> </div>  <div id="leftcol"> <h3><a href="/events/conference07.php"><span "style="color: #D92424;">Sex, Power & Slavery</span> Conference</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/events/conference07_call.php">Call for Papers</a></li> <li><a href="/events/conference07_programme.php">Programme</a></li> <li><a href="/events/conference07_keynote.php">Keynote Speaker</a></li> <li><a href="/events/conference07_participants.php">Participants & Themes</a></li> <li><a href="/events/conference07_presentations.php">Public Presentations</a> <ul> <li><a href="/events/conference07_dbc.php">Beaugrand-Champagne, D.</a></li> <li><a href="/events/conference07_cooper.php">Cooper, A.</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/events/conference07_accommodation.php">Conference Accommodation</a></li> <li><a href="/events/conference07_committee.php">Organizing Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/conf07_papers/index.php">Papers</a> (login required)</li> </ul> <h3>Back to <a href="/events/">Events</a></h3> </div>  <div id="content"> <h4 class="right"><a href="conference07_cooper_fr.php">Voir cette page en Français</a></h4> <h1>Public Reading & Discussion</h1> <hr /> <h3><span "style="color: #D92424;">Sex, Power and Slavery</span>:<em>The Dynamics of Carnal Relations under Enslavement</em> <br />Montreal, 19-21 April 2007 <br />Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University</h3> <hr /> <p><img src="/images/events/cooper.jpg" class="left" alt="Afua Cooper" /></p> <h2>Afua Cooper is an historian and poet</h2> <p>Born in Jamaica, she grew up there and migrated to Toronto in 1980. She holds a Ph.D. in history with specialties in slavery and abolition. Her dissertation, "Doing Battle in Freedom’s Cause", is a biographical study of 19th Century African American abolitionist Henry Bibb who lived and worked in Ontario. A resident of Toronto, she has taught in the departments of history and women’s studies at the University of Toronto. </p> <p>In addition to her historical research, Cooper has published four books of poetry, including <em>Memories Have Tongue</em> (1994), one of the finalists in the 1992 Casa de las Americas literary award. She is the co-author of <em>We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's History</em> (1994), which won the Joseph Brant Award for history. She has also released two albums of her poetry. She is a winner of the Harry Jerome Award for professional excellence. </p> <p><img src="/images/books/afua-hanging.jpg" class="right" /></p> <p>Her most recent book, <em>The Hanging of Angelique</em> (2006) tells the story of the Portuguese-born black slave Marie-Joseph Angelique who was executed in Montreal, after being accused of setting fire to her owner’s house. The Hanging of Angelique was short-listed for the 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction. </p> </div>  <div id="rightcol"> <h2>Upcoming Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/events/ray.php"><img src="/images/events/himanshu.jpg" width="120" alt="Indian Archeology" /></a></li> <li><a href="/events/ray.php">IOWC Visiting Lecturer: Himanshu Prabha Ray<br />28 November 2008, 5-7pm<br /><em>The Greeks in the Western Indian Ocean and the Coming of Islam</em></a></li> <li><hr /></li> <li><a href="/events/conference08.php"><img src="/images/events/hallway_small.jpg" width="120" alt="hallway at a British Slave Fort in Cape Coast, Ghana, West Africa" /></a></li> <li><a href="/events/conference08.php">International Conference on Debt & Slavery<br />7-9th May, 2009<br /><em>Please note the timeline for submission of papers has changed.</em></a></li> <li><hr /></li> <li><hr /></li> <li><a href="/contact.php">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="/sitemap.php">Site Map</a></li>  </ul> </div> </body> </html>