A one-day symposium follows the 1586 voyage of the ship Red Dragon. The ship’s little-known logbook, documenting its journey from England, to Sierra Leone, Rio de la Plata and Salvador da Bahia, illuminates the early interconnected histories of Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Speakers: Vanessa Wilkie, Huntington Library Eleanor Hubbard, Princeton University David Wheat, Michigan State […]
Daniel Richter, Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington this year, will speak to Atlantic history at noon to 2 on Thursday April 19. More info about […]
This conference is co-sponsored by the African Studies Center. It will be held in Bunche Hall 10383. UC Multi-campus Research Group on New Approaches to Black Atlantic Religions University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs & Initiative Funding (MRPI) present a conference on “New Directions in the Study of Black Atlantic […]
Enrique Rivera - “Resistance to Primitive Accumulation or Racial Capitalism? European Textile Production and the 1795 Anti-slavery Rebellion of Coro, Venezuela”
Kristen Block, Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Holistic Medicine, Spiritual Healing, and Dis-ease in the Early Caribbean”