2015-2016
All sessions are held on Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. in the Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets), University of Pennsylvania.
A free buffet supper follows at 6:00 p.m
Fall 2015
September 29
Jeremy Adelman, Department of History, Princeton University
"Heavy Shadows: the Americas and the World after 1492"
October 20
Nicole Aljoe, Department of English, Northeastern University
“Reconsidering the Slave Narrative Genre from a Global Perspective”
November 17
Tatiana Seijas, Department of History, Penn State University
“The Indian Camino Real: Indigenous Trade Routes in Early North America”
Spring 2016
January 28
Dee E. Andrews, MCEAS; Department of History, California State University-East Bay
“'The blood-stained Writing is for ever torn': The Making of Thomas Clarkson's History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade”
February 16
Charles Walker, Department of History, University of California-Davis
“The Tupac Amaru Rebellion: A North Atlantic Revolution?”
*This event is co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Department
March 15
Mark Hanna, Department History-University of California-San Diego
“Well-Behaved Pirates Seldom Make History”
April 19
Roquinaldo Ferreira, Department of History, Brown University
“Africa and the Second Slavery, ca. 1820s-c. 1860s”
2014-2015
All sessions are held at 4:30 unless otherwise noted in the Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets), University of Pennsylvania.
A free buffet supper follows at 6:00 p.m
Fall 2014
October 7
Mitch Fraas, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
“Looking at India through an Atlantic lens: Forging British imperial law in the Eighteenth Century”
October 21
Marcela Echeverri, Department of History, Yale University
“Royalism and Revolution in the Northern Andes. Popayán, 1780-1825”
November 18
Alejandra Dubcovsky, Department of History, Yale University
“Information and Power in the Colonial World”
Spring 2015
January 27
Nicole Aljoe, Department of English, Northeastern University
“Reconsidering the Slave Narrative Genre from a Global Perspective”
February 26
Gregory Ablavsky, Law School and Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
“Species of Sovereignty: Native Claims-Making and the Early American State in Comparative Perspective”
March 24
**6:00-7:30**
Sven Beckert, Department of History, Harvard University
“Empire of Cotton: A Global History”
April 21
Gregory O’Malley, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz
“To El Dorado via Slave Trade: Trafficking from British Colonies to Spanish and French America and the Logic of Human Commodification”