Atlantic History Colloquium, Fall 2026 Events
The Atlantic History Group generates innovative scholarship on the relations linking Africa, Europe and the Americas by investigating the expansion of markets during the slave trade; the production of literary texts and forms of literary theory; the politics of religious dissent and conversion; the growth of colonial science and cartography; Native American ethnogenesis; the rise of abolitionist and Pan-African ideologies; and the dynamics of race, gender and creolization throughout the Atlantic world.
Zoom links will be provided before each talk.
October 15: Mackenzie Elmore, Graduate Student, Department of History, UCLA
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- Presentation: “Fetishized Fertility and Maternity Wear: Race, Class, and Portrayals of Pregnancy in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire”
October 29: Matt Childs, Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina
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- Presentation: “Carabalies in Colonial Cuba: From the Bight of Biafra to the Bay of Havana”
November 19: Lisa Paravisini, Sarah Tod Fitz Randolph Distinguished Professor and Chair of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College
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- Presentation: “Oviedo’s Historia Natural: A Collaborative Translation to Reassess the Environmental History of 16th-Century Amazonia”
