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2024

The image contains flowers and leaves, the JCB logo, and the text "Q and A Session / John Carter Brown Research Fellowship for Indigenous Communities/ New Date!"

Q&A Session: John Carter Brown Research Fellowship for Indigenous Communities

The image is the book cover of Seth Rockman's book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery. It depicts a weaving and two shovels.

Book Event: Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery by Seth Rockman (Brown University)

The image contains the words "Critical Archives Reading Group" and a photo of a card catalog.

Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

The image shows the cover of the book Aztec Latin by Andrew Laird, which features a map on the cover.

Book Event: Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico by Andrew Laird (Brown University)

Photograph of writer David Grann.

EX LIBRIS: David Grann

The poster contains an image of several people, presumably enslaved people, in a small boat headed towards a ship and the title of the keynote lecture.

Scientiae Conference Keynote Lecture: "Bloody Numbers: Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Human Body in the Early Iberian Atlantic"

The image shows a card catalogue and the words "Critical Archives Reading Group."

Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

The image contains the title and description of the event, which is replicated in this event listing.

Found in Translation: Spanish American Colonial Sources for English Speakers

The image contains the title of the lecture, Divided Nations: Documenting Civil War in 1620s Potosí, and the name and image of the speaker (Kris Lane, Tulane University). There is also an image from the JCB collection of Potosí.

Divided Nations: Documenting Civil War in 1620s Potosí

The image shown is Un auto de fe en el pueblo de San Bartolome Otzolotepec (Anonymous, 1716).

Policing Mexico City’s Supernatural Soundscape -A lecture by Alex Hidalgo, Texas Christian University

The image states the title of the event, Images on a Mission: A Conversation with Cécile Fromont" as well as an image of people seated in semi circles in front of two rows of dwellings.

Images on a Mission: A Conversation with Cécile Fromont

The image contains drawings of birds and roses and one butterfly, and states "Starting on 9-20-2024! Archives Reading Group."

Critical Archives Reading Group, 2024-25

The image contains the cover of Marcy Norton's new book, The Tame and the Wild. It shows a parrot perched on the hand of a person.

Book Talk: The Tame and the Wild People and Animals after 1492 by Marcy Norton

The image shows part of a map of the Belvedere Estate.

Launch of The Race and Regency Lab

Archives of Revolution poster with image of ship.

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

Poster for Maggie Blackhawk talk titled "The Constitution of American Colonialism." It features the event details outlined here and an image of Professor Blackhawk.

The Constitution of American Colonialism: A Talk by Maggie Blackhawk