Gabriel 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, 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, 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 […]
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Alea Adigweme, MFA student in Interdisciplinary Studio Art at UCLA Zoom - Click here to register for the event.
In 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 […]
October 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 […]
Nov 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 […]
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Pirates which infest that coast’: Illicit Trade and Imperial Rivalry in Seventeenth-Century Western Hispaniola This presentation considers the illicit trade of tobacco and other goods from Western Hispaniola. French, Dutch, […]
Brett Rushforth, Associate Professor, University of Oregon “Consuming Colonialism: The Atlantic World in Sixteenth-Century France” Zoom RSVP Here
Beginning in the seventeenth-century, members of the Carmelite order adopted two ancient Ethiopian saints, Efigenia and Elesban. While their interest in ancient saints was tied to the order’s longstanding efforts […]
