Past Events



In View and Under Review: French Colonial Senegal during the “Interregnum of Abolition”

Friday Seminar
A. Véronique Charles, Columbia University
Sep 20, 2024 at -

A. Véronique Charles is a researcher, writer, and interdisciplinary scholar in literary studies. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University where she is also a…



A Natural History of Nursing

Brown Bag Session
Lilith Todd, Columbia University
Sep 18, 2024 at -

Lilith Todd is a PhD candidate in English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation, "Tending Another," describes the rhetoric and labor of nursing in the long eighteenth century and within a…



Gender and the Racialization of Authorship at the End of the Seventeenth Century

Friday Seminar
Joseph Rezek, Boston University
Sep 6, 2024 at -

Joseph Rezek is Associate Professor of English at Boston University, where he has recently served as the Director of the American & New England Studies Program. He was awarded an NEH fellowship in 2024-2025 for his…



Archives of Revolution: A Conference About How We Make the Past

Conference
Jun 20, 2024 - Jun 22, 2024 (All Day)

Archives of Revolution:  A Conference About How We Make the Past June 20-22, 2024 The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University



"Freedom: A Rashomon Effect"

Friday Seminar
Scott Heerman, University of Miami and McNeil Center for Early American Studies
May 3, 2024 at -

Scott Heerman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Miami. He is the author of The Alchemy of Slavery (2018) and is at work on a manuscript that examines the international kidnapping of freed people in…



“Is Death Not Preferable to Slavery?”: Resistance and Diaspora in the Circum-Gulf Region, 1729-1769

Brown Bag Session
Leila K. Blackbird, University of Chicago
May 1, 2024 at -

Leila K. Blackbird (Louisiana Creole, unenrolled adoptee of Apache-Cherokee descent) is currently the Pozen Human Rights Doctoral Fellow of US & Atlantic History at the University of Chicago. She also serves as the…



“Kikrevou”(kì ire aiku): Sickness, Death, and Survival in the Jamaican Smallpox Epidemic of 1768

Friday Seminar
Elise Mitchell, Princeton University
Apr 19, 2024 at -

Elise A. Mitchell is a historian of the Black Atlantic. She is currently an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow and Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Princeton University. She is…



“An Affair of So Much Consideration”: The Molasses Act Controversy, 1730-33

Brown Bag Session
Eva Landsberg, Yale University
Apr 17, 2024 at -

Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office. --



‘Agent Greenhill taught his people better manners’: Masculine authority and subjection between stability and breakdown in the seventeenth-century Atlantic World

Friday Seminar
Phillip Emanuel, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Apr 5, 2024 at -

Phillip Emanuel is a Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. His dissertation-to-book project focuses on how seventeenth-century imperial and trading company administrators in England…



Citizens and Subjects: Gambling on Belonging in the Nineteenth Century Native Great Lakes

Brown Bag Session
Elena Ryan, Princeton University
Apr 3, 2024 at -

Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office.