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Events Archive

2017

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

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