Cuba and Cape Verde: Revolutionary Connections across the Pan-African Atlantic
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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 […]
This 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, […]
Marc 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 Most histories of Palmares, the sprawling collection of settlements in Brazil that became […]
Mika Lior, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at the University of Malta "Circling With/In: Choreographies of Gendered & Regendered Agency in Bahian Candomblé" Based on history, dance studies methodologies and critical […]
Atlantic Africa—the region extending from Senegal to Angola—has few natural harbors, compelling Africans to cross through surf to reach fisheries and coastal shipping lanes. Sources suggest that one thousand years ago […]
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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 […]