Past Events

Omar ibn Said (1770-1863), a Muslim scholar, was captured in West Africa and sold into slavery in America, where he spent over half a century enslaved to a prominent North Carolina family.

A Lecture by Professor Zachary Wright 

Archaeology has immense power to help us better understand the life ways of enslaved peoples, as a group of people who have little voice in the historical record. This presentation provides…

To mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Stanford Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Hicham Alaoui joins our Program on Arab Reform and Democracy (ARD…