University of Iowa Professor Leslie Schwalm presented her research on “U.S. Slavery, Civil War, and the Emancipation of Motherhood” on Sept. 24 at an international conference.

The conference, “Enslaved Motherhood and Childlessness: Comparing Brazil with other Atlantic Slave Societies,” will be held at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. The conference is sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Research Council of the UK, the University of Reading, Newcastle University, and the Universidade de São Paulo.

Schwalm, a historian of gender and race in the nineteenth-century U.S., is a professor with appointments in the Departments of History and Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies, both part of the UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.