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2018

Image from: [Codex Coyoacán]. [Santa Maria Tetelpan, Mexico, ca. 1700 - 1743]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Fellow's Talk

Ruination and Renewal: The Lives and Afterlives of Sacred Space at San Miguel Achiutla, Oaxaca, Mexico

Image from: Vuë de Philadelphie. Philadelphia. Die haupt Stadt in der Nord-Americansichen Provinz Pensylvanien [Balthazar Frederic Leizelt 1776]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Lecture

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Ceremony

John Russell Bartlett Stillwell Prize Ceremony for Undergraduate Book Collecting

Image from: Mvsis. et Posteritati. S. Lvdovico de Camoes [Manoel Carvalho 1624]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Lecture

Navigation and Narrative: The Epic Seas of Luís de Camões

Image from: Tovar Codex-El modo de baylar de los Mexicanos. 17a y última del primer tratado. [Juan de Tovar 1585]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Workshop

Visual Thinking in the Archive: Mesoamerican Codices at the JCB

Image from: Vue du Détroit de Tinquina. sur le Lac de Titicaca. Plateau des Andes. (Bolivia.) [Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny 1844]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Fellow's Talk

The Puquina Language in the Seventeenth-Century Andes

Panel

Fluidity: Knowing Water in the Americas

Nature and culture in the early modern Atlantic poster
Lecture

Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic

Image from: Visscher, Nicolaes. Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ Nec Non Partis Virginæ Tabula multis in locis. [N.p., c. 1651]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Fellow's Talk

Dutch Delights

Photograph of book bindings found at the John Carter Brown Library.
Guided show-and-tell

How We Make Our Library Grow

Image from: Montanus, Arnoldus. De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America. Amsterdam, 1671. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Fellow's Talk

A New World Arcadia: Learning, Literature, and Mannerism in the Pastoral Fiction of New Spain

2017

Image from: Tovar, Juan de. [Tovar Codex]. [Mexico City, between 1582 and 1587]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Fellow's Talk

The Embodiment of the Word: European Book Culture and New World Manuscripts, 1540-1600

Image from: Orbis terrae compendiosa. [Jan Huygen van Linschoten, 1596]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Lecture

Far-flung Neighbors

Group of people seated in the John Carter Brown Library reading room, listening to live performance by Community MusicWorks.
Concert

Bach and Friends Annual Freda Bromsen Bolster Memorial Concert

Workshop

Descriptive Bibliography as Research Methodology: A Case Study of Samson Occom

Image from: Inca or Indians of Peru. [N. Guérard le fils, 1717]. Original image at the John Carter Brown Library.
Fellow's Talk

Daughters of the Inca Conquest: Indigenous Noble Women in Colonial Peru