Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies

Spring 2008 Schedule

All sessions are held on Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. in the Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,
3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets), University of Pennsylvania.
A free buffet supper follows at 6:30 p.m.

22 January
Kathleen Brown
Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
The Empire's New Clothes:
Shirts and Skins in the Early Atlantic

19 February
Christopher Leslie Brown
Department of History, Columbia University
Empire and Information on the West African Coast

18 March
Francisco Bethencourt
Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King’s College London
Racism before the Theory of Races
(co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania History Department and Latin American and Latino Studies Program)

15 April
Elizabeth Bohls
Department of English, University of Oregon
John Stedman's Tropics: The Mercenary as Natural Historian