Tawny Paul, “Commodified Bodies: Debt Bondage and Maritime Labor Recruitment in the British Atlantic”
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Atlantic History Lecture Series
Sasha Turner, “Negotiating Slavery and Motherhood on the Terrain of Feelings.”
ZoomThis presentation centers on the story of Abba, an enslaved woman who was the mother of an unusually large family in eighteenth century Jamaica. Abba had been pregnant thirteen times. […]
Sarah Johnson, “Between the Archive and the Speculative Turn: Notes toward a Biography of Moreau de Saint-Méry.” – POSTPONED
ZoomThis talk has been POSTPONED. Future date TBD. This talk considers the process of writing about the life and work of the Caribbean philosophe Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750-1819). A lawyer, printer, naturalist, and […]
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha, “East Atlantic Crossings in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries”
ZoomGabriel de Avilez Rocha, Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University "East Atlantic Crossings in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries" Atlantic historians tend […]
Barbara Krauthamer, “Liberty’s Diaspora: Black Women in the Age of the American Revolution”
ZoomBarbara Krauthamer, Professor of History, UMass Amherst "Liberty’s Diaspora: Black Women in the Age of the American Revolution" This presentation examines the lives of three Black women who had been enslaved […]
Elizabeth Schiffler, “Snow Eggs: Situated Tastes and Partial Archives”
ZoomElizabeth Schiffler, PhD student in Theater and Performance Studies, UCLA "Snow Eggs: Situated Tastes and Partial Archives" This talk traces a history of Snow Eggs, from its inception in American […]
Devin Leigh, “The Origins of an Archive: Enslavers and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Production in an Age of Abolition”
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Alea Adigweme, “A Prelude to the Vestibular: Reading Paratexts in Charles Shepard’s ‘An Historical Account of the Island of Saint Vincent'”
ZoomAlea Adigweme, MFA student in Interdisciplinary Studio Art at UCLA Zoom - Click here to register for the event.
Degenhart Brown, “‘Spiritscapes’ as ‘Atlantic Modernities’: Examining the Ritual Pathways of Spirit Possession and ‘Fetish’ Objects in West Africa.”
Zoom RSVPIn this presentation I explore how the dense vectors of material culture and spirit possession established in the crucible of the modern era continue to inform the decisions of millions […]
Mario Biagioli, “From Anti Science to Science Mimicry: Inventing Ethics in Trump’s EPA.”
Zoom RSVPOctober 18, 5 pm Mario Biagioli (UCLA Law and Information Studies) (please note the later time) This paper moves from the recent findings of agnotologists (like the book Merchants of Doubt) about […]
Chris Willoughby, “Collected without Consent: Imperialism and Enslavement in Harvard’s Medical Museum.”
Zoom RSVPNov 1 Chris Willoughby (Huntington Library) "Collected without Consent: Imperialism and Enslavement in Harvard’s Medical Museum." Co-sponsored with the Atlantic field In 1847, upon his retirement, John Collins Warren gave […]
