Past Seminars



Telling Time and Tracing Trade: Locating Indigenous and European Exchange Networks in 16th Century Ontario

Friday Seminar
Megan Anne Conger, University of Georgia
Oct 25, 2024 at -

Megan Anne Conger is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Isotope Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Georgia in 2022. An archaeologist by training, Megan’s…



Paradise of Women: Sex, Labor, and Utopianism in the Early Nineteenth Century

Friday Seminar
Elizabeth Hewitt, The Ohio State University
Oct 4, 2024 at -

Elizabeth Hewitt is Professor and Chair in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, Columbus. Her most recent books include Speculative Fictions: Explaining the Economy in the Early United States (2020)…



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…



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…



"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…



“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…



‘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…



1758: War and Trade on the West African Coast

Friday Seminar
Christopher L. Brown, Columbia University
Mar 22, 2024 at -

Dr. Christopher Leslie Brown is a historian of Britain and the British empire, principally in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with special emphasis on the comparative history of slavery and abolition, and with…



Policing the Montréal-Albany Contraband Trade: The 1730 Trial of Lydius

Friday Seminar
Sarah Templier, University of Ottawa
Mar 8, 2024 at -

Sarah Templier started as an assistant professor-replacement at the University of Ottawa in the summer of 2020 after obtaining her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Templier is a cultural and social historian of…



Losing "the Mind" in Translation: Cognitive Science in Haudenosaunee Origin Stories

Friday Seminar
Ittai Orr, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Mar 1, 2024 at -

Ittai Orr is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature with an emphasis on early Native American…