# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Church of England and the legacies of chattel slavery - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm - **Event Description**: Hear about Dr Bethany Elce's Leverhulme project on the Church's responsibility to reckon and respond to its difficult past.About this EventAll staff, students and members of the public are welcome to join us for the first IPUP seminar of the Spring Semester. The talk will last for 40-45 minutes, followed by questions. After the event we will have drinks and further conversation for those who wish to stay. The talk and Q&A will be livestreamed via Zoom. The venue for in-person attendees is the Church Lane Building. An access guide is available. The closest public parking is Campus Central; please note that the Church Lane car park is permit holders only. Talk SummaryIn 2006, the Church of England issued a formal apology for its role in chattel slavery, and then in 2023, the Church Commissioners for England published findings of its close links with the transatlantic slave trade and began formulating a long-term response. Using the Church of England as case study, this talk examines the question of whether institutional efforts to reckon with their colonial pasts can help create a more racially just present and future.Speaker BioBethany Elce is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln. She has a PhD in Gender Studies from SOAS University of London. Her research lies at the intersection of feminist political philosophy, colonial and postcolonial studies and ethnographic research. Bethany’s current Leverhulme project uses the Church of England as a case study in the project: Reckoning for Racial Justice? A Study of the Impact of Addressing Colonial Pasts. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/york/the-church-of-england-and-the-legacies-of-chattel-slavery/100001981945884493 - **Event Categories**: Workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: York - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: CL/A/057 - **lat**: 53.9489922 - **long**: -1.045146 - **full address**: CL/A/057, Church Lane Building, York, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: The Church of England and the legacies of chattel slavery - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/e9d97a2111a358e5bd6ab21c0e49dfb2de2ea7ae8ce4e33250ff73d0a72e02bb-rimg-w1200-h900-dca8c0d6-gmir.jpg?v=1771115538 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is The Church of England and the legacies of chattel slavery being held? - **A:** The Church of England and the legacies of chattel slavery takes place on Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm at CL/A/057, Church Lane Building, York, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing The Church of England and the legacies of chattel slavery? - **A:** The Church of England and the legacies of chattel slavery is organized by Institute for the Understanding of the Past. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "The Church of England and the legacies of chattel slavery", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/e9d97a2111a358e5bd6ab21c0e49dfb2de2ea7ae8ce4e33250ff73d0a72e02bb-rimg-w1200-h900-dca8c0d6-gmir.jpg?v=1771115538", "startDate": "2026-02-24", "endDate": "2026-02-24", "url": "https://allevents.in/york/the-church-of-england-and-the-legacies-of-chattel-slavery/100001981945884493", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "CL/A/057", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Church Lane Building", "postalCode": "YO10 5ZF", "addressLocality": "York", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "53.9489922", "longitude": "-1.045146" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Hear about Dr Bethany Elce's Leverhulme project on the Church's responsibility to reckon and respond to its difficult past.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-10", "availabilityEnds": "2026-02-24", "validFrom": "2026-04-10", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/york/the-church-of-england-and-the-legacies-of-chattel-slavery/100001981945884493" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-10", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-10", "url": "https://allevents.in/york/the-church-of-england-and-the-legacies-of-chattel-slavery/100001981945884493", "price": 0, "name": "In-person" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-10", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-10", "url": "https://allevents.in/york/the-church-of-england-and-the-legacies-of-chattel-slavery/100001981945884493", "price": 0, "name": "Online" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Institute for the Understanding of the Past", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/institute-for-the-understanding-of-the-past/17852215", "description": "The Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP) is a research centre based in the Department of History at the University of York, established to study the meaning of the past in the present." } ] } ] ```