1. Upcoming Events

Events Archive

2021

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Guided show-and-tell

Indigenous Informers, Elusive Empires, and the Mismapping of French North America

image of ship at sea
Lecture

Maury A. Bromsen Lecture with Manuel Barcia

printed depiction of Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
Guided show-and-tell

Bishop Las Casas’ Boldest Move: Demanding Restitution as a Prerequisite for Justice

printed diagram in Spanish of human intestines
Guided show-and-tell

Medicine and bodily difference in late sixteenth century Mexico

2020

printed text in English
Guided show-and-tell

A Curatorial Conversation: North American Indian Treaties at the JCB

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Roundtable

Las constelaciones revisitadas

printed astronomical diagram
Roundtable

What are we talking about when we talk about the history of astronomy in the Americas?

image showing books on a wooden table and two people skimming a book in the foreground
Workshop

From Primary Sources to Publication: an online workshop for scholars of early America

map of the world with continents upside down
Exhibition opening

Constellations exhibition launch and guided tour with Historian of Science Simon Schaffer

Image of Peruvian Print Shop
Lecture

Historia del libro en lenguas originarias de América

printed text in Spanish
Guided show-and-tell

Latin Americana: The Latin Collection at the JCB

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Guided show-and-tell

Acquiring Americana at the JCB: An Introduction to our Collection

plan of coffee plantation in Saint Domingue
Guided show-and-tell

First Readings 2020 & the JCB

two images, the first an engraving of Native Americans and Spanish soldiers fighting around Cuzco, the second an illustration of an Indigenous group's village in Santarém, Pará, Brazil
Fellow's Talk

Presentations by André Machado and Fernanda Sposito

chart of the Caribbean islands
Fellow's Talk

The Creole Archipelago: Race and Colonization in the Southern Caribbean, c. 1660-1797

Aztec sacrifice scene in temple surrounded by daily life in ancient Mexico
Fellow's Talk

Educational Orders in Mesoamerica: Toward a View from Five Schools