Vanderbilt professor to speak at Ideas and Images event on April 3

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Dr. Jane Landers

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (03/20/2014)(readMedia)-- Dr. Jane Landers, a Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University will speak at Flagler College as part of the College's "Ideas and Images" program on April 3.

Landers is an historian of Colonial Latin America and the Atlantic World specializing in the history of Africans and their descendants in those worlds. She is the author several books including "Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions" which was awarded the Rembert Patrick Book Award and honorary mention for the Conference on Latin American History's 2011 Bolton

Johnson Prize for the best English-language book on any aspect of Latin American History.

Landers' research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Conference on Latin American History, Vanderbilt University, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, the Historic St. Augustine Research Institute, and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities.

Landers' lecture, "Black Society in St. Augustine," will take place at 7 p.m. in the Flagler Room of Ponce de Leon Hall, 74 King St., St. Augustine.

"Ideas and Images: Visiting Scholars and Artists Program" features an international composition of artists and authors, introducing a fresh and creative component to the greater St. Augustine community.

Each event is free and open to the public. Call (904) 819-6282 or visit flagler.edu/our-community for more information.

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Flagler College is an independent, four-year, comprehensive baccalaureate college located in St. Augustine, Fla. The college offers 29 majors, 34 minors and two pre-professional programs, the largest majors being business, education and communication. Small by intent, Flagler College has an enrollment of about 2,500 students, as well as a satellite campus at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Fla. A Flagler education is less than half the cost of similar private colleges, and competitive with many state universities. A relatively young institution (founded in 1968), Flagler College is also noted for its historic beauty. The centerpiece of the campus is the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, a grand resort built in 1888 by Henry M. Flagler, industrialist, railroad pioneer and co-founder of Standard Oil. The Ponce has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. For more on Flagler College, visit www.flagler.edu.