Dr Selina Patel Nascimento

Lecturer in the History of the Global South

Research Interests

My research is deeply embedded in the intersectional experiences of enslaved and marginalised women, particularly in their positions in global systems of concubinage as concubines.

I am PI on the AHRC-funded project "Defining Concubinage in the Luso-Atlantic World: Gender, Slavery, and Networks of Power in Brazil and Angola (1880-1860)." It seeks to define concubinage as a discrete Atlantic world phenomenon that can be conceptually useful in comparative analyses of concubinary systems across the Americas. Clear definitions of Atlantic world concubinage and a degree of conceptual resolution provides a vital platform to build on future global comparisons that can draw together African, Asian, Middle Eastern, European, and American concubinary systems in meaningful and insightful ways.

Companheiras ou Propriedade: Concubinato e Escravidão no Mundo Luso-Atlântico
Symposium

Companheiras ou propriedade: uma nova abordagem ao concubinato no mundo luso-atlântico
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Companheiras ou propriedade: uma nova abordagem ao concubinato no mundo luso-atlântico
Invited talk

Runshaw College
School Engagement

Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World: 1750-1888
Participation in conference - Academic

Gênero, Escravidão, e Liberdade: Novas Perspectivas na Historiografia Brasileira
Participation in conference - Academic

Concubines of the West: Hidden Stories of Transatlantic Slavery and Freedom
Invited talk

Paths of Enslavement, Routes to Freedom: Slavery and Mobility in the Iberian Atlantic World
Participation in conference - Academic

Black British Studies: Practicing a Decolonial Curriculum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Learning Blackness in Higher Education History
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Evidence that Demands a Verdict: Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionists’ Case in Rome and the Vatican Response in the 17th Century
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

ABRE Congresso IV
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World: 1750-1888
Participation in conference - Academic

Defesa da Tese de Mestrado
Examination

‘Mulheres marítimas? Navegando gênero, escravidão, e a liberdade na ‘contra-viagem’ luso-atlântica.’
Invited talk

Concubines Past, Present, and Future
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Female Captive Mobilities and the ‘Countervoyage’ in the Luso-Atlantic World
Invited talk