Sasha Turner, “Negotiating Slavery and Motherhood on the Terrain of Feelings.”

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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. She had ten live births and one still birth. We come to know Abba’s story through the diaries of Thomas Thistlewood, notorious among scholars of […]

Discussion of “The Notorious Mrs. Nobles: Jim Crow Gender and “Insanity” in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia”

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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 who conspired with her Black farm hand to murder her husband in rural Georgia in 1895. While other historians have demonstrated the importance of race […]

Roundtable, Past and Futures: Current Challenges in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

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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 Demographic Future of the History of Science.” Abstract: This talk draws from my involvement in a roundtable discussion at the 2020 History of Science Society […]

Sarah Johnson, “Between the Archive and the Speculative Turn: Notes toward a Biography of Moreau de Saint-Méry.” – POSTPONED

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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 translator who was at the forefront of revolutionary politics on two continents, Moreau was also a slaveholder who wrote about ideals of liberty even as […]

Professor Andrew Robichaud, “Animal City: The Domestication of America”

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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 talking about his book Animal City: The Domestication of America (Harvard University Press, 2019)   American cities were once full of animal life: cattle driven through city […]

Indian Ocean Studies: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?

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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 Angeles RSVP via QR code above or here.

Gabriel de Avilez Rocha, “East Atlantic Crossings in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries”

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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 to understand transoceanic crossings along an east-west axis, with people and goods seen as traversing the space between Africa and/or Europe, on the one hand, […]

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