Past Events

"Seceding from the Sachemship: Indigenous Coercion and Colonial Failure in Early Historic New England"

Friday Seminar

Peter Olsen-Harbich, The College of William and Mary and 2019-2020 Advisory Council Fellow

"Freedom-Seekers and the Invention of “Runaway Slaves” in Restoration London"

Friday Seminar

Simon P. Newman, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Empire, Sovereignty, and Labor in the Age of Global Abolition

Conference

"Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean: Sexual Exploitation, Freedom Struggles, and Black Atlantic Biography"

Friday Seminar

Randy Browne, Xavier University
Lisa A. Lindsay, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John Wood Sweet, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"'Mutual Interests and Reciprocal Benefits': The American Revolution and Dutch Political Economic Thought, 1775-178"

Friday Seminar

Matthijs Tieleman, University of California, Los Angeles and 2018-2019 Society of Cincinnati Fellow

"Mkaumwa, Calumba, and Miami Columbo: Slavery and Expropriated Pharmacology from the Swahili Coast to the Ohio Valley"

Friday Seminar

Christopher Blakley, University of California, Los Angeles and 2018-2019 MCEAS Consortium Fellow

“Making ‘the Indian’: Wax Figures and the Construction of Race in Early America”

Brown Bag Session

Ryan Bachman, University of Delaware

“Styling Secrecy on the Early American Stagee”

Brown Bag Session

Amy Huang, Brown University

“A Penn graduate training in History in the making of one scholar's career”

Brown Bag Session

Nicholas Canny, Emeritus Professor National University of Ireland Galway

“Constructing Health: Concepts of Well-Being in the Creation of Early Atlantic Cities”

Brown Bag Session

Molly Nebiolo, American Philosophical Society/ Northeastern University