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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“Vast Forests of Clove”: Spice Production in French Guiana, 1790-1848
September 2021
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“Indian Castles” and “Barbarous Frenchmen”: the Shadow of New France in the American Revolution
September 2021
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Translating Late Medieval Classics into Nahuatl: The Imitatio Christi and How to Think About Latin-Nahuatl translation
September 2021
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Earthquakes and Timekeeping Practices in New England, 1600-1800
August 2021
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Abolitionist Imperialism in the Archives. Or, How to Prove Racism in Anti-Slavery
August 2021
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Comparative Colonialisms? Palermo and the Americas at the JCB
August 2021
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"Brute animals" and "rational creatures": Defining humanity in the Indigenous-language vocabularies and pedagogies of New Spain
July 2021
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The Revolutionary Intellectuals of the Kingdom of Henry Christophe (1811-1820)
July 2021
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"To cease and yield the continual pretensions of the French:" The Spanish Establishment of Monte Cristi as a Free Port, 1750-1763
July 2021
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From South to North America: A New Perspective on Floridian Studies
July 2021
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The Strait of Magellan and the Construction of a Global habitability. Geopolitics and cosmography in the 16th century [in Spanish]
June 2021
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Pirates, Windmills, and Disasters: An Eclectic Romp through the JCB's Caribbean Collection in Uncertain Times
June 2021
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Studying Absence: Archival Fragments and Interdisciplinary Methods in the History of Medicine in the Atlantic Slave Trade
June 2021
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Indigenous Informers, Elusive Empires, and the Mismapping of French North America
April 2021
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Maury A. Bromsen Lecture with Manuel Barcia
March 2021
