Forest W. Clonts Lecture by Dr. Julie Hardwick, “The Odyssey of Adelaide Zaire: Enslaved Young Women and Fugitivity in Eighteenth-Century France”

Join us for the 2026 annual Forest W. Clonts lecture on April 6 at 3:30 pm in Carswell Hall, Room 111. Prof. Julie Hardwick, John E. Green Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin will deliver a talk titled, “The Odyssey of Adelaide Zaire: Enslaved Young Women and Fugitivity in Eighteenth-Century France.” Adelaide Zaire was one of thousands of young, enslaved women and men for whom France was one stop in a trajectory of serial Atlantic coerced dislocations. Her fugitivity illuminates the efforts of young enslaved people to manage their lives and the ways in which racial capitalism worked as a daily practice in a European city.

Reception to follow the talk.