Events
Discover all the happenings at John Carter Brown Library
Past
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![Detail from: To His Royal Highness George Augustus Frederick [...]. Westminister, 1774. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/Rupert_cropped.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
Slavery, Sanctuary, and Sovereignty in the Early Modern Caribbean
May 2017
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"So What'd I Miss?": Lafayette, Jefferson, and Hamilton at the JCB
October 2017
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Exhibition Opening - The Americas on Fire
April 2017
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The Americas and the Generative Power of Fire
April 2017
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Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
April 2017
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The Other Slavery - Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Lecture
April 2017
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![Detail from: Figure des Brisilians. [Rouen, 1551]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/Ruppel_Cropped_0.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
Un certain simulacre de la verité: Performances and Performative Readings in the Figure des Brisilians (1551)
April 2017
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The Americas on Fire
June 2017
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How Digital Memory is Shaping Our Future
March 2017
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Digital Memory: What Can We Afford to Lose?
March 2017
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![the image is a detail from Diego Valades Tipus sacrificiorum [1579].](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/diego_val.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
European Rhetoric and Images for the Americas: The World of Diego Valadés, Franciscan Artist and Humanist
March 2017
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![Detail of The Tea-Tax-Tempest, or Old Time with his Magick=Lanthern. [London, 1783]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/whaler.2e16d0ba.fill-465x262.format-webp.webp)
Whaler, Traitor, Coward, Spy!: William Rotch, the Quaker Ethic, and the Spirit of Capitalism
March 2017
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One Book (or Map) at a Time: New Acquisitions at the JCB
February 2017
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Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
February 2017
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Women of the Page Roundtable Discussion
February 2017
![Detail from: To His Royal Highness George Augustus Frederick [...]. Westminister, 1774. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/Rupert_cropped.2e16d0ba.fill-646x364.format-webp.webp)
![Detail from: Figure des Brisilians. [Rouen, 1551]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/Ruppel_Cropped_0.2e16d0ba.fill-646x364.format-webp.webp)
![the image is a detail from Diego Valades Tipus sacrificiorum [1579].](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/diego_val.2e16d0ba.fill-646x364.format-webp.webp)
![Detail of The Tea-Tax-Tempest, or Old Time with his Magick=Lanthern. [London, 1783]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/whaler.2e16d0ba.fill-646x364.format-webp.webp)
