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Events Archive

2018

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Fellow's Talk

Guadalupe: Text, Context, and the Virgilian Tradition

Ernesto Bassi and Bertie Mandelblatt discuss a map while researchers consult maps and books in the background
Symposium

Early Modern Global Caribbean Symposium

M.Chambon, Le Commerce de l'Amerique par Marseille (Avignon 1764), vol. 2, plate XI, facing p. 400. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Conference

Trans-American Crossings

JCB fellows and invited speakers participate in a roundtable discussion
Roundtable

Libraries of the Future, Scholarship of the Past

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