Past Events



"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 -



Atlantic Jewish Worlds: 1500–1900

Conference
Apr 7, 2021 - Apr 8, 2021 (All Day)

The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, in partnership with the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, invites your participation in a two-day conference focused on Jewish life in the Atlantic world…



"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 -



Empire, Sovereignty, and Labor in the Age of Global Abolition

Conference
Feb 25, 2021 - Feb 26, 2021 (All Day)

This international conference brings scholars together in consideration of the entangled and global histories of empire and labor in the age of slavery’s abolition.



"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 -



"'Mutual Interests and Reciprocal Benefits': The American Revolution and Dutch Political Economic Thought, 1775-178"

Friday Seminar
Matthijs Tieleman, University of California, Los Angeles and 2018-2019 Society of Cincinnati Fellow
Feb 5, 2021 at -