Past Seminars



Insanity, Race, and Property Rights in the Early Republic

Friday Seminar
Sari Altschuler, Northeastern University
Jan 14, 2022 - Oct 8, 2021 at -

Sari Altschuler’s research focuses primarily on American literature and culture before 1865, literature and medicine, disability studies, and the health humanities, broadly understood. She is the author of The Medical…



"Ada-gal'kala, Transatlantic Disgaduhvi, and the Cherokees' Expanding Atlantic World"

Friday Seminar
Nathaniel Holly, University of Georgia Press
Dec 3, 2021 at -



"A Jewish Awakening: Religion and Power in the Colonial South"

Friday Seminar
Shari Rabin, Oberlin College
Nov 19, 2021 at -



"The Incarcerating Army: Enslaved People and the Continental Army in the U.S. War for Independence"

Friday Seminar
Sean Gallagher, American Philosophical Society
Oct 29, 2021 at -



"The Atlantic Life of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: Race, Sex, and the Anti-Blackness of Consent"

Friday Seminar
Farren Yero, Duke University
Oct 15, 2021 at -



"The Debt: Sovereignty and Claims-making After the Revolution"

Friday Seminar
Jessica Choppin Roney, Temple University
Sep 24, 2021 at -



"Forgetting Tobias Smollett: An Author and Britain’s Imperial Past"

Friday Seminar
Emma Hart, McNeil Center for Early American Studies and University of Pennsylvania
Sep 10, 2021 at -



"Refuse Slaves, Disposable Lives: Rethinking Racial Capitalism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade"

Friday Seminar
Marisa J. Fuentes, Rutgers University and 2020-2021 Barra Sabbatical Fellow
May 7, 2021 at -



“'Men of High Honor and Intrinsic Worth': Commercial, Scientific, and Southern Cultures at the New Orleans Mint"

Friday Seminar
Ann Daly, Brown University
Apr 30, 2021 at -



"The Role of Livestock in Millenarian and Revitalization Movements: Animals as Symbols of Colonial Oppression"

Friday Seminar
Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman, University of Maryland
Apr 23, 2021 at -