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 […]
Madina Thiam, Assistant Professor of History, NYU “Absolutely and Utterly Free: An Atlantic-Saharan Journey through Slavery and Race-Making, 1834-1836”
Bunche 6275 & ZoomThis talk follows Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Watara, a Timbuktu-born teenager who was enslaved in Jamaica from 1805 to 1834. Upon securing his manumission, Watara undertook a trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan journey, in a bid to return home. A close examination of Watara’s words and writings about him, and a reconstruction of his trajectory, provides insight into […]
Outrageous Comparisons in Modern History and Contemporary Politics
6275 Bunche HallFlying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife
Bunche 6275 & ZoomMarc Hertzman, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Flying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife Most histories of Palmares, the sprawling collection of settlements in Brazil that became perhaps history’s largest fugitive slave society, end in 1695, when colonial forces assassinated the famous rebel leader Zumbi. My book project plays the story forward […]
Marc Hertzman, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign “Flying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife”
Bunche 6275 & ZoomMarc Hertzman, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Flying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife Most histories of Palmares, the sprawling collection of settlements in Brazil that became perhaps history’s largest fugitive slave society, end in 1695, when colonial forces assassinated the famous rebel leader Zumbi. My book project plays the story forward […]
Axel Jansen, History of Medicine, “An Unlikely Partnership? The Vatican Endorses Stem Cell Research, 2000-2015”
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Peasants, Perpetrators, and Violence in Nazi-Occupied Ukraine
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Patrícia Martins Marcos, UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Rising to the Challenge “The Empire of White Patriarchs: Population, Race-Making, and the Sciences of Human Improvement in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic (1730-1800)”
6275 Bunche HallIn 1750, when the Brazilian border expanded by several orders of magnitude, Portuguese Crown officials, administrators, and men of science received the news with hope and apprehension. While the growth of frontiers of Portugal’s possession in the Americas was celebrated, it also presented formidable challenges for settlement. How could a diminutive metropole whose empire stretched […]
