Past Brown Bag Sessions



On the Margins: Black Women Food Sellers in the Antebellum North

Brown Bag Session
Carolyn Zola, Stanford University
Oct 11, 2023 at -

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Colonial Conflict over the Trade in Indigenous Corn on the Connecticut River, 1637-1639

Brown Bag Session
Alice King, University of Virginia
Sep 27, 2023 at -

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Ekphrastic Intimacies: Fitz-Greene Halleck, Sagoyewatha, and Settler Sexualities of the Early Republic

Brown Bag Session
Chip Badley, American Antiquarian Society
Sep 13, 2023 at -

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INCIDENTS AND ENCOUNTERS: Figures for the self in Harriet Jacobs’s LINDA: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)

Brown Bag Session
Jared Robinson, University of California, Berkeley
Apr 26, 2023 at -

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"With an Infant at the Breast": Black Mothering and Penal Punishment under the Barbados Apprenticeship System

Brown Bag Session
Halle-Mackenzie Ashby, Johns Hopkins University
Apr 12, 2023 at -

Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office.  -- Halle-Mackenzie Ashby is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the current African American…



A Gendered Frontier: Métissage and Indigenous Enslavement in Eighteenth-Century Basse-Louisiane

Brown Bag Session
Leila K. Blackbird, University of Chicago
Mar 29, 2023 at -

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The Muscogee Crisis: The Treaty of Indian Springs and Tribal Politics in the Native South, 1825-1827

Brown Bag Session
Tanner Allread, Stanford University
Mar 15, 2023 at -

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Piercing the Corporate Whale: Agents, Principals, and the Personified Impersonal in Moby-Dick

Brown Bag Session
Geoffrey Kirsch, Harvard University
Mar 1, 2023 at -

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New Orleans, the “Natural Depot” for Mexican Specie (1821-1861)

Brown Bag Session
Manuel A. Bautista González, University of Oxford
Feb 15, 2023 at -

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“Postponed: How Three Weeks Changed the Declaration of Independence”

Brown Bag Session
Emily Sneff, William & Mary
Feb 1, 2023 at -

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