Salvage Stories: Personhood, Property and the Sea

Join us for this online talk with Dr Anita Rupprecht, University of Brighton.

Anita Rupprecht is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science. She teaches historical and cultural studies on the Humanities programme. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on interconnected histories and representations of British transatlantic slavery, the slave trade, abolitionism, and Empire during the Age of Revolution. She also publishes on reparative histories and the politics of contemporary cultural memory.

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This is part of a programme of events that respond to Today’s gift is tomorrow’s commodity. Yesterday’s commodity is tomorrow’s found art object. Today’s art object is tomorrow’s junk. And yesterday’s junk is tomorrow’s heirloom by Lloyd Corporation.

To book your place, please click the Book Now button above. This online talk will be hosted on zoom – the link will be sent 2 hours before the start time. Live captioning will be enabled during the talk. Free to attend. Please email P.Wright@Brighton.ac.uk with any questions.