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2021

Engraving of two Nahua men speaking to one another. An angel hovers behind one of the men, preventing him from producing idolatrous speech, while the other has a snakes stemming from his mouth, which is representative of such language.
Fellow's Talk

"Brute animals" and "rational creatures": Defining humanity in the Indigenous-language vocabularies and pedagogies of New Spain

A group of men dressed in military uniform sit around a table, surrounded by soldiers carrying muskets who stand behind a white prisoner. One man is writing on a piece of parchment on the table.
Fellow's Talk

The Revolutionary Intellectuals of the Kingdom of Henry Christophe (1811-1820)

An eighteenth-century hand colored, engraved image of a ship unloading cargo and men from a boat, surrounded by other ships and backgrounded by a fortification, dwellings, churches, and a harbor.
Fellow's Talk

"To cease and yield the continual pretensions of the French:" The Spanish Establishment of Monte Cristi as a Free Port, 1750-1763

Three sixteenth-century maps. On the left is a map of the western coast of South America including Peru, on the top right a map of the southern part of North America from the Carolinas to the Mexican coast and on the bottom right a map of the northeastern part of Mexico.
Fellow's Talk

From South to North America: A New Perspective on Floridian Studies

A map showing the strait of Magellan
Fellow's Talk

The Strait of Magellan and the Construction of a Global habitability. Geopolitics and cosmography in the 16th century [in Spanish]

Portrait of François Lolonois with scenes of a town being burned
Fellow's Talk

Pirates, Windmills, and Disasters: An Eclectic Romp through the JCB's Caribbean Collection in Uncertain Times

Portrait of Graman Quacy
Fellow's Talk

Studying Absence: Archival Fragments and Interdisciplinary Methods in the History of Medicine in the Atlantic Slave Trade

section of printed map
Guided show-and-tell

Indigenous Informers, Elusive Empires, and the Mismapping of French North America

image of ship at sea
Lecture

Maury A. Bromsen Lecture with Manuel Barcia

printed depiction of Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
Guided show-and-tell

Bishop Las Casas’ Boldest Move: Demanding Restitution as a Prerequisite for Justice

printed diagram in Spanish of human intestines
Guided show-and-tell

Medicine and bodily difference in late sixteenth century Mexico

2020

printed text in English
Guided show-and-tell

A Curatorial Conversation: North American Indian Treaties at the JCB

astronomical diagram
Roundtable

Las constelaciones revisitadas

printed astronomical diagram
Roundtable

What are we talking about when we talk about the history of astronomy in the Americas?

image showing books on a wooden table and two people skimming a book in the foreground
Workshop

From Primary Sources to Publication: an online workshop for scholars of early America

map of the world with continents upside down
Exhibition opening

Constellations exhibition launch and guided tour with Historian of Science Simon Schaffer