Events
Please note that although John Carter Brown Library events are free and open to the public, registration is required unless otherwise noted. Kindly complete the registration form linked in the event description.
Past
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Joseph Rezek on "Common Sense" (Part of The Revolution Is News)
March 2026
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Maury A. Bromsen Lecture with Manuel Barcia
March 2021
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Historia del libro en lenguas originarias de América
October 2020
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Frames that Speak: An Introduction to Cartographic Cartouches
December 2019
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Kings and Slaves: Diplomacy, Sovereignty, and Black Subjectivity in the Early Modern World
October 2019
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Engaged Digital Scholarship: The Ticha Project and Zapotec language archival texts
March 2019
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Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire
January 2019
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Frontier Rebels
December 2018
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
October 2018
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![Image from: Vuë de Philadelphie. Philadelphia. Die haupt Stadt in der Nord-Americansichen Provinz Pensylvanien [Balthazar Frederic Leizelt 1776]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/never_caught.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
May 2018
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![Image from: Mvsis. et Posteritati. S. Lvdovico de Camoes [Manoel Carvalho 1624]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/04107002.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
Navigation and Narrative: The Epic Seas of Luís de Camões
April 2018
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Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic
March 2018
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![Image from: Orbis terrae compendiosa. [Jan Huygen van Linschoten, 1596]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/farflung.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
Far-flung Neighbors
November 2017
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![Image from: Mr. Garrick delivering his Ode, London. [John Lodge 1770]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/10625-1-3_copy_xDb1mM.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
Ten Things I Learned From Shakespeare
October 2017
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If, And or But: What we can learn from ten words in Shakespeare
October 2017
![Image from: Vuë de Philadelphie. Philadelphia. Die haupt Stadt in der Nord-Americansichen Provinz Pensylvanien [Balthazar Frederic Leizelt 1776]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/never_caught.2e16d0ba.fill-646x364.format-webp.webp)
![Image from: Mvsis. et Posteritati. S. Lvdovico de Camoes [Manoel Carvalho 1624]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/04107002.2e16d0ba.fill-646x364.format-webp.webp)
![Image from: Orbis terrae compendiosa. [Jan Huygen van Linschoten, 1596]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/farflung.2e16d0ba.fill-646x364.format-webp.webp)
![Image from: Mr. Garrick delivering his Ode, London. [John Lodge 1770]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/10625-1-3_copy_xDb1mM.2e16d0ba.fill-646x364.format-webp.webp)
