Past Events



Slavery’s Uncertain Inheritances: Kinship, Family, and the Archive

Friday Seminar
Sasha Turner, Johns Hopkins University
Dec 6, 2024 at -

Sasha Turner is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica which examines the struggles for control over biological…



Atlantic Relics: The Art of Devotion in the Early Afro-Iberian Atlantic

Brown Bag Session
Nathalie Miraval, Yale University
Dec 4, 2024 at -

Nathalie Miraval is a PhD Candidate in the Art History Department at Yale University. Her research focuses on the spiritual expressive cultures of the early modern Afro-Iberian Atlantic, with a focus on gender and race…



Sentimentalism Aside: Child Labor and the Youthful Realities of Elleanor Eldridge, 1785-1830”

Friday Seminar
Sherri Cummings, Rhode Island College
Nov 22, 2024 at -

Dr. Cummings is jointly appointed in History and Africana Studies at Rhode Island College. Her research interests include Africa and the Atlantic World, Early African American History and Africana Intellectual History. …



Domestic Carceral Labor: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Punishment at Eastern State Penitentiary

Brown Bag Session
Whitney Fields, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Nov 20, 2024 at -

Whitney N. Fields is a PhD Candidate in History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She received a B.A. in History and American Studies from the College of William and Mary in 2015. Her work combines carceral studies,…



Tryon’s Travels and Franklin’s Fish: From War Slavery to Antiwar Antislavery

Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures
David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York
Nov 7, 2024 at -

David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, will inaugurate the new Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures series November 4-7 on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus.…



Slavery and War: The Original Origins Debate

Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures
David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York
Nov 6, 2024 at -

David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, will inaugurate the new Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures series November 4-7 on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus.…



The Problems of Slavery in an Age of History Wars: Looking back at 2019/1619

Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures
David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York
Nov 4, 2024 at -

David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, will inaugurate the new Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures series November 4-7 on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus.…



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…



Opera, Pantomime, and Circus in late 18th-century Montréal

Brown Bag Session
Elizabeth Rouget, Princeton University
Oct 23, 2024 at -

Elizabeth Rouget is a PhD candidate at Princeton University completing her dissertation titled “Dance as Translation: Establishing French Opéra-Comique, Ballet, and Circus in Early North America, 1780-1810.” Following…



“Our Coming to America”: Remembering the Middle Passage in the Colored Conventions

Brown Bag Session
Courtney Murray, Pennsylvania State University
Oct 9, 2024 at -

Courtney Murray is a Dual-Title PhD Candidate in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University and a #DigBlk Scholar at the Center for Black Digital Research (CBDR). Her…