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The KHI Amerindian Lecture Series

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut 16 September – 16 Dezember 2021 Thursdays, 17:30 CET, online Program & Registration: www.khi.fi.it/amerindian-lectures In the framework of Department Gerhard Wolf & 4A_Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics Organized by Sanja Savkić Šebek (Kunsthistorisches Institut in...

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Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions 2022 Conference (Extended Deadline)

The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) invites paper proposals for its fourteenth biennial conference, to be held online February 24-26, 2022. FEEGI conferences investigate the histories of places and people touched directly and indirectly, advantageously or catastrophically, by...

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7th Summer Academy of Atlantic History

Atlantic Worlds between the Global and the National Universität Bayreuth, Germany, via Zoom 26 August – 30 August 2021 http://localhost/eeasa/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zoom-Program-2021.pdf The corona virus, BREXIT, “America first” and many other current developments and crises bring up the crucial question how much...

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Second Annual Materializing Race “Unconference” on Objects and Identity in #VastEarlyAmerica (zoom)

Wednesday 25 August 2020 (Zoom), 1-3 PM EDTProposals due by 1 August 2020 In a commitment to fostering nuanced interpretations of early American objects and meaningful dialogue on historical constructions of race and their legacies, we invite panelists to virtually...

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CFP: Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) biennial conference

The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) invites paper proposals for its fourteenth biennial conference, to be held online February 24-26, 2022. FEEGI conferences investigate the histories of places and people touched directly and indirectly, advantageously or catastrophically, by...

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CFP: The Hakluyt Society Symposium 2021 – Decolonising Travel Studies

by Guido van Meersbergen, reposted from H-Atlantic June 14/06/2021 Decolonising Travel Studies: Sources and Approaches 11-12 November 2021  University of Warwick (online) Deadline for submissions: 1 July 2021 The close links between travel and European colonialism have long been acknowledged. Since...

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Extended Deadline CFP: “Contagious Connections: Epidemic Disease in Vast Early America and the Atlantic World.”

by Claire Gherini, re-posted from H-Atlantic 14/06/2021 The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture invites applications from scholars across academic disciplines for participation in a series of workshops dedicated to revisiting and rethinking the history and historiography of epidemics...

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Publication: De la Nouvelle-Néerlande à New York, by Anne-Claire Faucquez

485 pages158 x 240 mm2021978-2-84654-569-336 € L’histoire de la colonie de New York ne peut être dissociée de celle de l’esclavage. En effet, l’esclavage fut implanté dès l’arrivée des premiers colons néerlandais en 1624 et se développa parallèlement à la colonie,...

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Seeking Freedom: The Underground Railroad in the Mid-Atlantic

From H-Atlantic, June 2, 2021 Lincoln University and Voices Underground 2021 CFP Lincoln University, Pennsylvania March 31, April 1-2, 2022 The Lincoln University Center for the Study of the Underground Railroad and Voices Underground, an organization focused on preserving and...

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LeBlanc on Ogborn, ‘The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World’ by H-Net Reviews

Miles Ogborn. The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. x + 309 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-65768-4; $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-65592-5.  Reviewed by Dylan LeBlanc (La Lumiere School) Published on H-Atlantic (May, 2021) Commissioned by Bryan Rindfleisch (Marquette...

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