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Events Archive

2017

Image from: Mr. Garrick delivering his Ode, London. [John Lodge 1770]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Lecture

Ten Things I Learned From Shakespeare

Image from: Mr. Garrick delivering his Ode, London. [John Lodge 1770]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Lecture

If, And or But: What we can learn from ten words in Shakespeare

Image from cover of Ferreiro's book Brother at Arms.
Lecture

Brothers at Arms

Image from: Map of western Bolivia, Paris. [Pitois-Levrault et compagnie, 1839]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Workshop

Connected Histories of the First South American Republics (1808-1850)

Open House

Family Weekend Program and Open House with Professors Douglas Cope, Emily Owens, and Felipe Rojas

detail of a map of the western Atlantic Ocean
Lecture

Black Legend or Black Atlantic?: Africa in the Spanish Atlantic Maritime World

detail of an image with smoke and lava erupting from volcanoes and grassy hills in the background
Symposium

Fire and Water: Entangled Histories of Empire and Science Conference

Detail of: [Guiana]. [Frankfurt am Main, 1599]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Fellow's Talk

Killing Dogs, Loving Dogs: Settler-Colonialism, Indigenous Communities, & Human-Canine Relationships in Greater Amazonia & the Circum-Caribbean

Open House

Commencement Weekend Open House

portrait and map
Exhibition opening

Exhibition Opening and Reception - "So what'd I miss?": Lafayette, Jefferson, and Hamilton at the John Carter Brown Library

Cover of Wendy Warren's book New England Bound.
Lecture

New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

Roundtable

Roundtable in honor of Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books Emeritus

Detail from: To His Royal Highness George Augustus Frederick [...]. Westminister, 1774. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Fellow's Talk

Slavery, Sanctuary, and Sovereignty in the Early Modern Caribbean

group of indigenous people sitting around a fire in an enclosed space
Exhibition opening

Exhibition Opening - The Americas on Fire

detail of a black and white sketch of a town on fire, large amounts of smoke rising
Panel

The Americas and the Generative Power of Fire

Lecture

Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage