Next Tuesday, the UNO Schwalb Center will present a Passover lecture by Dr. Jane Gordon in conjunction with the photography exhibit “Enslaved: A Visual Story of Modern Day Slavery,” by humanitarian photographer Lisa Kristine.
Gordon is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, and her talk is entitled “Slavery Then and Now: A Passover Reflection.” One of her topics will be human trafficking, which she says is a type of contemporary slavery that is on the rise because of world conditions.
“While the world has changed around the institution of slavery, so everybody would say that slavery is wrong, there are a whole series of policies that determine how and why people travel that have made people much more vulnerable to enslavement than they were in even the 1980s. Whenever there’s protracted war of any time, and especially civil war, all of the people who are becoming refugees and who are rendered stateless become particularly vulnerable to enslavement.”
This Passover lecture takes place April 11th at the UNO Criss Library from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Gordon’s lecture will be preceded by a Performing Arts Collective dramatic reading of “The Whipping Man” and a light reception.
Additionally, UNO’s Department of Black Studies will hold its 15th annual Malcolm X Festival next week.
For more information the website is Unomaha.edu – search Schwalb Center.