1. Upcoming Events

Events Archive

2017

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

detail from a map with a group of brown and Black people beside a smaller group of white people
Lecture

The Other Slavery - Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Lecture

Detail from: Figure des Brisilians. [Rouen, 1551]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Fellow's Talk

Un certain simulacre de la verité: Performances and Performative Readings in the Figure des Brisilians (1551)

cover of the book "When we are no more: how Digital memory will shape our future" by abby smith Rumsey
Lecture

How Digital Memory is Shaping Our Future

photograph of writer and historian Abby Smith Rumsey
Lecture

Digital Memory: What Can We Afford to Lose?

detail from Diego Valades Tipus sacrificiorum [1579].
Roundtable

European Rhetoric and Images for the Americas: The World of Diego Valadés, Franciscan Artist and Humanist

Detail of The Tea-Tax-Tempest, or Old Time with his Magick=Lanthern. [London, 1783]. Original at the John Carter Brown Library.
Fellow's Talk

Whaler, Traitor, Coward, Spy!: William Rotch, the Quaker Ethic, and the Spirit of Capitalism

plan de la ville du cap francias et de ses environs
Guided show-and-tell

One Book (or Map) at a Time: New Acquisitions at the JCB