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Demetrius Eudell
Lectures on knowledge, race, and German Enlightenment
The SSA project was pleased to welcome Dean of Social Sciences Demetrius Eudell to campus in mid-March. Dean Eudell, a historian from Wesleyan University, specializes in 19th-century U.S. history, intellectual history, and the history of Blacks in the Americas. In addition to a number of essays and articles on Black intellectual and cultural history, he is the also the author of The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South and co-editor with Carolyn Allen of Sylvia Wynter: A Transculturalist Rethinking Modernity, a special issue of The Journal of West Indian Literature. His presentation, called “The Race for/of Knowledge in the German Enlightenment," focused on ideas of history, nature, theories of human differences, race and scientific racism in the late 18th-century using the work of three professors at Göttingen University, an archetype of the first modern research university. For more information about this event, please see this recent article in the Sewanee Purple: https://thesewaneepurple.org/2019/03/13/demetrius-eudell-lectures-on-knowledge-race-and-german-enlightenment/
