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
-
Exhibition Opening - The Americas on Fire
April 2017
-
The Americas and the Generative Power of Fire
April 2017
-
Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
April 2017
-
The Other Slavery - Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Lecture
April 2017
-
![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
-
The Americas on Fire
June 2017
-
How Digital Memory is Shaping Our Future
March 2017
-
Digital Memory: What Can We Afford to Lose?
March 2017
-
![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
-
![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
-
One Book (or Map) at a Time: New Acquisitions at the JCB
February 2017
-
Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
February 2017
-
Women of the Page Roundtable Discussion
February 2017
-
Slaves, Silver, and Atlantic Empires: The Slave Trade to Spanish South America, 1660-1810
February 2017
-
Women of the Page: Convent Culture in the Early Modern Spanish World
April 2017
![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)
