History of Science Colloquium: E. Bennett Jones (The Huntington Library)

Bunche 5288 & Zoom

The 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 […]

Atlantic History Colloquium: Melissa Morris, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wyoming

Bunche 6275 & Zoom

Pirates 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 […]

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