aswwa is going to ghana.through these things to make the initial contact and then can find out about the exchanges that might be going. >> and there is the african-american research and i have been to france and madrid. i didn't go to berlin this year they met in berlin, but they do wonderful work promoting african-american research and actually last week i was at queen's university in belfast on rethinking reconstruction, myself and susan odom and from harvard. of course we were the only ones to talk about gender and i would like to reassure crystal in this sense that people don't really know what you're talking about or may not fully appreciated, persist. i don't care. [laughter] so that -- i did a paper on gender, labor and kind of this expansive sense of citizenship that and the emancipation era, and it was interesting but, you know, a great conference. so i think things are happening. and tom host was a keynote speaker at this and he is at the academy of sciences in berlin. >> i would like to alt-a you -

aswwa is going to ghana.hrough these things to make the initial contact and then can find out about the exchanges that might be going. >> and there is the african-american research and i have been to france and madrid. i didn't go to berlin this year they met in berlin, but they do wonderful work promoting african-american research and actually last week i was at queen's university in belfast on rethinking reconstruction, myself and susan odom and from harvard. of course we were the only ones to talk about gender and i would like to reassure crystal in this sense that people don't really know what you're talking about or may not fully appreciated, persist. i don't care. [laughter] so that -- i did a paper on gender, labor and kind of this expansive sense of citizenship that and the emancipation era, and it was interesting but, you know, a great conference. so i think things are happening. and tom host was a keynote speaker at this and he is at the academy of sciences in berlin. >> i would like to alt-a you --