The Early Modern Menagerie: Taming Animals in the JCB's Archive

Wild, tamed, or domesticated. Furry, feathered, or scaled. People-eating or a person's best friend. The role of animal actors in the history of the early Americas is not always apparent. The John Carter Brown Library has brought together six scholars whose work intersects with beasts that walk on land, dig beneath it, fly above it, and swim between it.

A roundtable featuring: Charlotte Carrington-Farmer (Roger Williams University), Mary Draper (University of Virginia / JCBL),  Iris Montero Sobrevilla (Brown University), Marcy Norton (The George Washington University / JCBL), Linda Rupert (University of North Carolina - Greensboro / JCBL), and Silvia Sebastiani (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales / JCBL).