Archives of Revolution: A Conference About How We Make the Past

Archives of Revolution: A Conference About How We Make the Past will take place June 20-22, 2024 at Sayles Hall on the Main Green of Brown University.

A collaboration between the John Carter Brown Library on the campus of Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts. The conference is chaired jointly by Emma Hart of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Sean Quimby of UPenn Libraries, and Karin Wulf of the JCB.

Program Summary

Thursday, June 20 

Keynote:  “The Treasurer’s Tale: A Lost Account of War, White Supremacy, and Black Radicalism in the Haitian Revolution”      

Reception to follow Keynote Discussion.

Friday, June 21

Saturday, June 22

A pdf of the full conference program is available below under Files.

Click here to view the original call for papers.

For more about Archives of Revolution, see the piece written by Professors Hart, Quimby, and Wulf:
https://ageofrevolutions.com/2023/03/20/archives-of-revolution/