COMPTE-RENDU >> Launch Event: Prof. Cristiana BASTOS, "Across Empires: Plantation Labour in the Aftermath of Abolition" (TEAMS, 21 OCT 2022) On October the 21 st , Cristiana Bastos, Professor at the University of Lisbon, presented her research Project called “ Colour of Labour ”, involving thirteen other researchers, in the context of the Launch Event of the EUTopia University Legal History which includes partners from six European Universities (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, CY Paris, Warwick, Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Ljubljana, and Nova Lisboa). This event brought together professors and students from these universities on Teams and will be available for asynchronous viewing to project partners. Bastos studies how 19th and 20th centuries plantations produced race. If the notion of race has, since the ravages of 20th century authoritarianism, become taboo in Europe, as it is finally recognized not to be a biological reality, it is, however, a central concept for
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