Launch of The Race and Regency Lab

94 George Street

Providence, RI

If you'd like to join us via Zoom, please use this link to join the webinar: https://brown.zoom.us/j/95011006607.

The image shows part of a map of the Belvedere Estate.

The JCB is honored to host the launch of The Race and Regency Lab, a project directed by Professor Patricia Matthew of Montclair State University.

This event will feature an opportunity to view pieces from our Collection, a book signing with Nikki Payne, an evening lecture, and a reception.

This is a hybrid (in-person and virtual) event. Please use the link above to join the webinar.

Program: 

 

Friday, September 13, 2024
John Carter Brown Library - Reading Room

1:00—2:30 p.m.
Race, Agency, and the Archive

JCB Welcome 

Karin Wulf (Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, Professor of History, Brown University)

Race and Regency Lab Welcome

Patricia A. Matthew (Associate Professor of English, Montclair State University, Director, The Race and Regency Lab)


(Re) Constructing Race and the Archives 

Patricia Akhimie (Director, Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library) 

Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth (Lecturer in French and British History of Art, Edinburgh University)


Black Agency in/and the Archives

Simon Newman (Senior Visiting Fellow, John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study)


 

2:45—3:45 p.m.
Mapping Race in The Regency

Welcome and Comments

Bertie Mandelblatt (George S. Parker II '51 Curator of Maps and Prints, John Carter Brown Library)


Race and Regency Lab Welcome 

Joseph Rezek (Associate Professor of English, Boston University) 


Visualizing Property

Constanza Robles S. (Doctoral Candidate History of Art & Architecture, Boston University)

 
 

4:00—5:30 p.m.
The Race and Regency Lab

Welcome and Introducing Kim Hall

Karin Wulf 


Reflections on Archival Navigations

Kim F. Hall (Lucyle Hook Chair and Professor of English and Africana Studies, Barnard College)


A Plan for the Belvedere Estate: Austen, Provisionally 

Patricia A. Matthew (Associate Professor of English, Montclair State University and Director Race and Regency Lab)


Black Women Reimagine the Regency

Carole V. Bell (Lecturer University of South Florida, Freelance Journalist, Co-Producer and Co-Host of the Black Romance Podcast) 

Nikki Payne (Novelist) 


 

5:30—7:00
Reception