BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14443-bae52dae0fb984ee8ea8c3b986fb73d1@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260412T234012Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T130000 SUMMARY:Center for Democratic Deliberation Lecture: Oliver Baker DESCRIPTION:\nLunch will be served at this event. Please email Melody Ge hlbach at mkg13@psu.edu to request a lunch.\n\nNineteenth-century enslav ed rebels and militant abolitionists understood slavery to be a war on p eople of African descent that could only be defeated through abolition w ar. This presentation examines how abolition war rebels were foremost th eorists of racial capitalism\, whiteness\, and repression. Yet their ins ights have been overlooked both in major accounts of abolition framed by U.S. nationalism and traditions of anti-capitalist critique focused pri marily on Europe. Drawing from his forthcoming book No More Peace: Aboli tion War and Counterrevolution\, Baker shows how those who waged aboliti on war theorized slavery and imperialism as contingent projects always v ulnerable to defeat and ruin rather than destined to expand and prevail. It was this understanding of the contingency of racial capitalism that became a persuasive force in winning support for the strategy of aboliti on war that carried great risks and required enormous sacrifices. Baker also demonstrates how abolition war thinkers remain relevant today at a time when rising forces of reaction seek to repress teaching and scholar ship that foster the critical study of race\, slavery\, colonialism\, an d class society.\n\nOliver Baker is an assistant professor of English an d African American studies at Penn State. His areas of research include critical ethnic studies and nineteenth-century American studies with a f ocus on the relationship between literature and the histories of slavery \, settler colonialism\, and capitalism.\n\nFor more details: https://ev ents.la.psu.edu/event/cdd-lecture-oliver-baker/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Lunch will be s erved at this event. Please email Melody Gehlbach at mkg13@psu.edu to request a lunch.

Nineteenth-centu ry enslaved rebels and militant abolitionists understood slavery to be a war on people of African descent that could only be defeated through ab olition war. This presentation examines how abolition war rebels were fo remost theorists of racial capitalism, whiteness, and repression. Yet th eir insights have been overlooked both in major accounts of abolition fr amed by U.S. nationalism and traditions of anti-capitalist critique focu sed primarily on Europe. Drawing from his forthcoming book No More P eace: Abolition War and Counterrevolution, Baker shows how those wh o waged abolition war theorized slavery and imperialism as contingent pr ojects always vulnerable to defeat and ruin rather than destined to expa nd and prevail. It was this understanding of the contingency of racial c apitalism that became a persuasive force in winning support for the stra tegy of abolition war that carried great risks and required enormous sac rifices. Baker also demonstrates how abolition war thinkers remain relev ant today at a time when rising forces of reaction seek to repress teach ing and scholarship that foster the critical study of race, slavery, col onialism, and class society.

Oliver Baker is an assistant professo r of English and African American studies at Penn State. His areas of re search include critical ethnic studies and nineteenth-century American s tudies with a focus on the relationship between literature and the histo ries of slavery, settler colonialism, and capitalism.

For more det ails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cdd-lecture-oliver-baker/

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