| Kursnummer | 1528 |
| Leitung |
Joseph Biggerstaff
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| Datum | Dienstag, 29.04.2025 18:15–19:45 Uhr |
| Plätze | min. 5 / max. 100 noch genügend Plätze frei |
| Entgelt | kostenlos Anmeldung empfohlen. |
| Ort |
VHS, Mülheimer Platz 1, Raum 1.11 (Saal)
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Psychology defines resilience as „adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility to external and internal demands.“ Historians can help us understand how individuals cope with adverse conditions by sharing insights from research on the history of childhood. In plantation societies in the eighteenth century, for example, children and young adults routinely experienced and witnessed traumatizing levels of violence.
Joseph Biggerstaff holds an M.A in Global History and is a Ph.D researcher at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) at the University of Bonn.
He will present some of the coping strategies developed in slave societies in the Caribbean in response to the adverse conditions they were facing. How did enslaved children navigate the traumatizing social and physical environment, and what were the outcomes that emerged after slavery was abolished?
