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--
Marisa Fuentes, “‘Refuse’ Bodies, Disposable Lives: The Bio-politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade”
Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents Maris J. Fuentes (Rutgers University, Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and History) "'Refuse' Bodies, Disposable Lives: The Bio-politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade" Tuesday, January 24, 2017 6275 Bunche Hall, 12 PM-2 PM
2017 Alden-Berg Lecture
The 2017 Alden-Berg Lecture will feature speaker Benjamin Madley, who will be discussing his recent book, An American Genocide. RSVP for the Lecture
