Past Friday Seminars



"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 -



"Namontack When He Was (Not) Here"

Friday 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"

Friday 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"

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



"Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean: Sexual Exploitation, Freedom Struggles, and Black Atlantic Biography"

Friday Seminar
Randy Browne, Xavier University
Lisa A. Lindsay, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John Wood Sweet, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Feb 12, 2021 at -