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2024

JCB Open Research Night for Tribal Community Members

JCB Open Research Night for Tribal Community Members

2023

Photograph of Jennifer Barclay.

Jenifer Barclay, “Cripping the Archive: Confronting Ableism at the Source”

Belongings, Archives and Indigenizing Design poster.

EX LIBRIS: Belongings, Archives, & Indigenizing Design

Poster for Tatiana Seijas talk. Image of Mexico City.

American Metropolis: The Making of Seventeenth-Century Mexico City

2022

[Pillage du Cap Français en 1793]

History, Journalism, Haiti: Reflections on the New York Times "The Ransom" Series

2021

Frontispiece from Museum Wormianum. Seu, Historia rerum rariorum, 1655.

Natural History Collecting in Late Colonial New Spain: Highlights from the JCB Collection

Engraving showing whale fishery
Fellow's Talk

Baleação e Escravidão: Conexões Atlânticas entre New England, África e Brasil. Séculos XVIII e XIX (in Portuguese)

View of the fort and watchtower or lookout at Cayenne, Guiana. Includes fortifications, ships, boats, dwellings, and barracks.
Fellow's Talk

“Vast Forests of Clove”: Spice Production in French Guiana, 1790-1848

Frontispiece of 'Mis Mac Rea', by Hillard-D'Auberteuil
Fellow's Talk

“Indian Castles” and “Barbarous Frenchmen”: the Shadow of New France in the American Revolution

Detail from the Tovar Codex, showing a bearded Spanish man atop the symbol for house (calli), while holding a book that points to the letters of the Roman alphabet.
Fellow's Talk

Translating Late Medieval Classics into Nahuatl: The Imitatio Christi and How to Think About Latin-Nahuatl translation

Image of an artificial flower clock, with two hands emerging from clouds on either side holding a numbered circle, and a thorn stemming from the flower's circle pointing at the time.
Fellow's Talk

Earthquakes and Timekeeping Practices in New England, 1600-1800

An image showing a women in chains knelling on the shore
Fellow's Talk

Abolitionist Imperialism in the Archives. Or, How to Prove Racism in Anti-Slavery

Simple, printed map of the island of Sicily, showing Mount Etna, Palermo, Messina, Catania, and other cities, which have been labeled by the author.
Fellow's Talk

Comparative Colonialisms? Palermo and the Americas at the JCB

Engraving of two Nahua men speaking to one another. An angel hovers behind one of the men, preventing him from producing idolatrous speech, while the other has a snakes stemming from his mouth, which is representative of such language.
Fellow's Talk

"Brute animals" and "rational creatures": Defining humanity in the Indigenous-language vocabularies and pedagogies of New Spain

A group of men dressed in military uniform sit around a table, surrounded by soldiers carrying muskets who stand behind a white prisoner. One man is writing on a piece of parchment on the table.
Fellow's Talk

The Revolutionary Intellectuals of the Kingdom of Henry Christophe (1811-1820)

An eighteenth-century hand colored, engraved image of a ship unloading cargo and men from a boat, surrounded by other ships and backgrounded by a fortification, dwellings, churches, and a harbor.
Fellow's Talk

"To cease and yield the continual pretensions of the French:" The Spanish Establishment of Monte Cristi as a Free Port, 1750-1763