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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Guadalupe: Text, Context, and the Virgilian Tradition
October 2018
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Early Modern Global Caribbean Symposium
September 2018
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Bodies of Water/Bodies at Work
September 2018
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Trans-American Crossings (Conference)
June 2018
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Libraries of the Future, Scholarship of the Past
May 2018
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![Image from: [Codex Coyoacán]. [Santa Maria Tetelpan, Mexico, ca. 1700 - 1743]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/Forde_cropped.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
Ruination and Renewal: The Lives and Afterlives of Sacred Space at San Miguel Achiutla, Oaxaca, Mexico
May 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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John Russell Bartlett Stillwell Prize Ceremony for Undergraduate Book Collecting
April 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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![Image from: Tovar Codex-El modo de baylar de los Mexicanos. 17a y última del primer tratado. [Juan de Tovar 1585]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/codices.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
Visual Thinking in the Archive: Mesoamerican Codices at the JCB
April 2018
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![Image from: Vue du Détroit de Tinquina. sur le Lac de Titicaca. Plateau des Andes. (Bolivia.) [Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny 1844]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/Emlen_cropped.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
The Puquina Language in the Seventeenth-Century Andes
April 2018
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Fluidity: Knowing Water in the Americas
April 2018
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Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic
March 2018
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Writing the History of Abolitionism in the Portuguese South Atlantic
March 2018
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![Image from: Visscher, Nicolaes. Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ Nec Non Partis Virginæ Tabula multis in locis. [N.p., c. 1651]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/delites.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
Dutch Delights
March 2018
![Image from: [Codex Coyoacán]. [Santa Maria Tetelpan, Mexico, ca. 1700 - 1743]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/Forde_cropped.2e16d0ba.fill-646x364.format-webp.webp)
![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: Tovar Codex-El modo de baylar de los Mexicanos. 17a y última del primer tratado. [Juan de Tovar 1585]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/codices.2e16d0ba.fill-646x364.format-webp.webp)
![Image from: Vue du Détroit de Tinquina. sur le Lac de Titicaca. Plateau des Andes. (Bolivia.) [Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny 1844]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/Emlen_cropped.2e16d0ba.fill-646x364.format-webp.webp)
![Image from: Visscher, Nicolaes. Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ Nec Non Partis Virginæ Tabula multis in locis. [N.p., c. 1651]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/delites.2e16d0ba.fill-646x364.format-webp.webp)