Women in the Early Modern City: Suzhou and Paris
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Cuba and Cape Verde: Revolutionary Connections across the Pan-African Atlantic
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History of Science Colloquium: E. Bennett Jones (The Huntington Library)
Bunche 5288 & ZoomThe Indians Say: Storytelling, Settler Colonialism and American Natural History, 1722 to 1846 This talk discusses the use of information attributed to Indigenous sources within eighteenth and nineteenth century Anglophone natural history. Early modern naturalists studying North American flora and fauna frequently sought out the expertise of Indigenous people, who they simultaneously regarded as authoritative […]
Where Memory Leads: A Conversation with Saul Friedländer (with Sanjay Subrahmanyam)
6275 Bunche HallMore info to come.
Atlantic History Colloquium: Melissa Morris, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wyoming
Bunche 6275 & ZoomPirates which infest that coast’: Illicit Trade and Imperial Rivalry in Seventeenth-Century Western Hispaniola This presentation considers the illicit trade of tobacco and other goods from Western Hispaniola. French, Dutch, and English ships came from the 1560s to trade with the diverse groups living there—Indigenous, Spanish, and African. In response, in 1605-6, western and northwestern […]
Dr. Elise Mitchell, History of Medicine, “Morbid Geographies: Smallpox and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic”
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Brett Rushforth, Associate Professor, University of Oregon “Consuming Colonialism: The Atlantic World in Sixteenth-Century France”
Bunche 6275 & ZoomBrett Rushforth, Associate Professor, University of Oregon “Consuming Colonialism: The Atlantic World in Sixteenth-Century France” Zoom RSVP Here
Erin Rowe, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University “The Black Saints of the Carmelite Order: Ancient Ethiopia in the Early Modern European Imagination”
6275 Bunche HallBeginning in the seventeenth-century, members of the Carmelite order adopted two ancient Ethiopian saints, Efigenia and Elesban. While their interest in ancient saints was tied to the order’s longstanding efforts to prove the antiquity of their order dating back to the Prophet Elijah, the inclusion of Ancient Ethiopia in these efforts tell a more complex […]
