This 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. […]
Winter 2021 Colloquium Feb 8 | 4PM - 5PM PST Speaker Hippolyte Goux (UCLA) "Representation and Abstraction: Economic Models and the End of Man." Zoom registration link: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvc-urqTwuE91JLUd7x9rXNoEATlDLZV74
A Discussion of Rebekka Michaelsen’s article-in-progress “The Notorious Mrs. Nobles: Jim Crow Gender and “Insanity” in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia” This article-in-progress recovers the case of Elizabeth Nobles, an elderly, poor white woman […]
Winter 2021 Colloquium Feb 22 | 4PM - 5PM PST Roundtable Past and Futures: Current Challenges in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine with interventions by: Terence Keel (UCLA), “The […]
This 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 […]
Professor Andrew Robichaud, “Animal City: The Domestication of America” Tuesday, March 2 11am to 12:15pm Andrew Robichaud, Assistant Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Boston University, will be […]
Indian Ocean Studies: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going? A Historian's Perspective Speaker: Edward A. Alpers Research Professor (Emeritus) Department of History University of California, Los […]
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 […]
Spring 2021 Colloquium April 5 | 4PM - 5PM PST Speaker Megan Rosenbloom (UCLA) “Anatomized Bodies at Work: The Human Skin Book and its Implications for the Histories of Medicine […]