Please join us for our first lecture series of the 23-24 academic year featuring Tanya Bride who will speak on "Trails of Hoof and Pawprints: Tracing human-animal relations in colonial Mexico through the religious courts and Relaciones Geográficas". Please note: This event will only be held via Zoom. It will not be in person. This event is […]
The Atlantic History Colloquium 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 historical memory; the politics of religious dissent and conversion; the growth of colonial science and cartography; Native American ethnogenesis; the rise […]
The Atlantic History Colloquium 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 historical memory; the politics of religious dissent and conversion; the growth of colonial science and cartography; Native American ethnogenesis; the rise […]
Dr. Melissa N. Morris is a historian of early America and the Atlantic World whose research is centered on the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She is particularly interested in the cross-cultural interactions that defined colonial encounters, the role of plants in driving European expansion, the dissemination of geographic and agricultural knowledge, and colonial […]
Please RSVP here, lunch will be provided. To attend remotely via Zoom, RSVP here. Speakers: Félix Jean Louis III, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine Paper: “Haiti, Haitians, and the Caribbean Roots of Pan-Africanism” Bright Gyamfi Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University Paper: “Pan-Africanism and African and Diasporic unity” […]
Please note: Contrary to the usual schedule, this talk is on a Wednesday! RSVP for attending the talk remotely (Zoom): https://ucla.in/3WvjYFm Speaker: Jonathan Rodriguez McKnight Doctoral Fellow Dept. of Anthropology, University of South Florida Paper: Justin Dunnavant (Discussant) Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA Jacko Steps, Jacko Flats Trail, Dominica. The stone […]
José Ortega, Associate Professor, Department of History, Whittier College Presentation: “Coachmen and Abakuá in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Subjects and Agents of Surveillance.”
Viviana Quintero-Marquez, UC President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of History, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Merced. Presentation: “Mapping Seafarers and Black Women’s Networks in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Cartagena.” Discussant: Nohora Arrieta Fernández, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA Also on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98793935555
Thursday, May 14th at 12:30 pm Erin Budrow, Graduate Student, Department of History, UCLA Presentation: “Martinique in the Time of Yellow Fever: Colonial Public Health during the 1908 Yellow Fever Outbreak.” Discussant: Soraya de Chadarevian, Distinguished Professor, Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA Register in advance for this meeting: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/R4Npg_oaTWiTlHI48-6KXw After […]
