Devin Leigh, “The Origins of an Archive: Enslavers and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Production in an Age of Abolition”
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Atlantic History Lecture Series
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 […]
Cuba and Cape Verde: Revolutionary Connections across the Pan-African Atlantic
Bunche 6275 & ZoomZoom: RSVP
Atlantic History Colloquium: Melissa Morris, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wyoming
Bunche 6275 & ZoomPirates 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”
Bunche 6275 & ZoomBrett Rushforth, Associate Professor, University of Oregon “Consuming Colonialism: The Atlantic World in Sixteenth-Century France” Zoom RSVP Here
Erin Rowe, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University “The Black Saints of the Carmelite Order: Ancient Ethiopia in the Early Modern European Imagination”
6275 Bunche HallBeginning 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 […]
Madina Thiam, Assistant Professor of History, NYU “Absolutely and Utterly Free: An Atlantic-Saharan Journey through Slavery and Race-Making, 1834-1836”
Bunche 6275 & ZoomThis talk follows Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Watara, a Timbuktu-born teenager who was enslaved in Jamaica from 1805 to 1834. Upon securing his manumission, Watara undertook a trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan journey, […]
Flying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife
Bunche 6275 & ZoomMarc Hertzman, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Flying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife Most histories of Palmares, the sprawling collection of settlements in Brazil that became […]
Marc Hertzman, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign “Flying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife”
Bunche 6275 & ZoomMarc Hertzman, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Flying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife Most histories of Palmares, the sprawling collection of settlements in Brazil that became […]
