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Benjamin Straumann – “Jean Bodin on the late Roman Republic and Constitutional Government”
Refreshments will be served.
Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi & Brenda Stevenson
Despite myths of a postracial world, racism is alive and well. In his “engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America” (Washington Post), the historian and 2016 National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi traces the arc of antiblack racist ideas from 15th-century Portugal to the founding of the United States, arguing that we must confront the […]
European History Colloquium – Karen Harvey, “Rabbits, Whigs, and Hunters: Cultural History and Protest in Mary Toft’s Monstrous Births of 1726”
Karen Havey is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Sheffield. Her focus as a cultural historian is of the British long eighteenth century, with a special interest in gender.
Carla Pestana – “Quaker Mobility and the threat to English America”
This talk considers the force and voluntary circulation of Quakers through the mid-17th century Atlantic. --Part of the CRS Faculty Lecture Series--