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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![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
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Rooms of their Own: Dwellings of the Enslaved and the Free in the Early Americas
May 2019
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How We Make Our Library Grow
February 2018
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A New World Arcadia: Learning, Literature, and Mannerism in the Pastoral Fiction of New Spain
February 2018
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![Image from: Tovar, Juan de. [Tovar Codex]. [Mexico City, between 1582 and 1587]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/embodi.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
The Embodiment of the Word: European Book Culture and New World Manuscripts, 1540-1600
December 2017
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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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Bach and Friends Annual Freda Bromsen Bolster Memorial Concert
November 2017
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Descriptive Bibliography as Research Methodology: A Case Study of Samson Occom
November 2017
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![Image from: Inca or Indians of Peru. [N. Guérard le fils, 1717]. Original image at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/daughters.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
Daughters of the Inca Conquest: Indigenous Noble Women in Colonial Peru
November 2017
![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)
![Image from: Tovar, Juan de. [Tovar Codex]. [Mexico City, between 1582 and 1587]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/embodi.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: Inca or Indians of Peru. [N. Guérard le fils, 1717]. Original image at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/daughters.2e16d0ba.fill-646x364.format-webp.webp)