Past Seminars



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

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"

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



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

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



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

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"

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"

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



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

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



"Namontack When He Was (Not) Here"

Seminar
Timothy L. Fosbury, University of California, Los Angeles and 2019-2020 Friends of the MCEAS Fellow
Mar 26, 2021 at -



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

Seminar
Peter Olsen-Harbich, The College of William and Mary and 2019-2020 Advisory Council Fellow
Mar 19, 2021 at -



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

Seminar
Simon P. Newman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mar 5, 2021 at -