Brown Bag Biography with Marcus Rediker

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The Center for Biographical Research presents: / “The Afterlives of Benjamin Lay, in Biography, Play, Graphic Novel, Children's Book, and Documentary Film” / Marcus Rediker, Dai Ho Chun Chair in the College of Arts, Languages, & Letters, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa / This talk explores Marcus Rediker’s work over the past ten years on Benjamin Lay (1682-1759), one of the first to call for an end to slavery worldwide and yet almost completely unknown. He was a Quaker, a shepherd, a sailor, a militant abolitionist, a feminist, an environmentalist, a vegetarian, a defender of animal rights, a cave-dweller, and a dwarf. Rediker will discuss his efforts to bring Lay back to public memory using various cultural forms. / Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. His “histories from below” have won numerous awards and appeared in twenty languages. He is the author of fifteen books, a prize-winning documentary film, Ghosts of Amistad (2013), directed by Tony Buba, and a prize-winning play, The Return of Benjamin Lay (2023), co-written with Naomi Wallace. / Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, Conflict and Peace Specialist, Hui ʻĀina Pilipili: Native Hawaiian Initiative, the School of Communication & Information, the School of Cinematic Arts, and the Departments of American Studies, Anthropology, English, Ethnic Studies, History, Political Science, and Sociology / Thursday, October 31 / Kuykendall 410 / 12PM to 1:15PM HST

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