Spring 2024

 *All meetings will be held from 12:00pm-2:00pm in SSRB 201 (Tea Room) unless otherwise noted

March 25

“Protestant division and the politics of overseas missions in the English overseas colonies c. 1660-1714”

Gabriel Glickman

Cambridge University, Faculty of History

April 8

“What’s in a Pattern: Marronage and Atlantic Slave War in the Age of Revolutions”

Marcus Nevius

University of Missouri, Department of History

April 22

“Nineteenth Century Afro-Cuban Returnees to the Bight of Benin”

Elena Schneider

University of California Berkeley, Department of History

April 29

“Global Smuggling and the Dark Networks of Empire: The Isle of Man’s Emergence as a Commercial Entrepot”

David Chan Smith

Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of History

May 6

“Fiscal-Political Conflict in Late Ming China and Early Stuart England”

Gabriel Groz

University of Chicago, Department of History

May 13

Book Talk: Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions

John Brewer

Co-sponsored by CHSS and CEGU

(Time and location TBA)

May 20

“Humanism and Empire: The Anti-Colonial Critique of ‘the Human’”

Filipe Carreira da Silva

Cambridge University, Department of Sociology