26 January: Guest Lecture by Prof. Brycchan Carey (Northumbria University)

16.12.2022 -  

The Chair of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies is pleased to welcome Prof. Brycchan Carey for a guest lecture on "Olaudah Equiano, The African: An Eighteenth-Century Citizen of the World". The lecture will take place on Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 11:00 a.m. as part of the seminar "Discourses of Slavery and Abolition in the 17th and 18th Centuries" by PD Dr. Nora Pleßke (Building 40, Room 226, Zschokkestraße 32). The lecture is open to everyone who is interested.

Brycchan Carey is Professor of English at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne. He is currently President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Vice-President of the Association for Study of Literature and Environment (United Kingdom and Ireland), and served as the first President of the Literary London Society. In his numerous publications, primarily on the culture and literature of the Atlantic world, Carey has focused on discourses on slavery and the abolitionist movement, the content of which ties in seamlessly with the seminar topic. His lecture focuses on Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), an eighteenth-century African writer and Britain's first Black civil servant, who also acted as an anti-slavery activist, navigator, and explorer. Carey has extensively edited and published Equiano's Interesting Narrative and will also discuss his experiences as an editor during the guest lecture.