September 8
Isabela Mares, Columbia University
“The Non-Democratic Origin of the Fiscal State”
12:30—2:00 pm, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., Room 208 (except when indicated)
Light lunch is served from 12:00 pm
Khary Polk (Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies, Amherst College), “Negro Heroines: Gender, Race, and Immunity in the Spanish-Cuban-American War”
Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World Working Group: discussion of a pre-circulated paper.
Wednesdays from 6-7:30pm, 81 Wall Street, Room 201 (Gordon Parks Seminar Room)
GLC Public Panel Discussion:
“Confronting Coercion: Building Worker Power in the 21st Century”
5-7 pm: Luce Hall Auditorium
Co-sponsors: The Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration
The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School
Introductions: David Blight (GLC Director and Historian, Yale University)
Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World Working Group: discussion of a pre-circulated paper.
Wednesdays from 6-7:30pm, 81 Wall Street, Room 201 (Gordon Parks Seminar Room)
GLC-sponsored Paper Discussion, Amy Dru Stanley (Assoc. Prof., History, Univ. of Chicago) 4:00—5:30pm, 230 Prospect St, Room 101
“Sex, Antislavery, and Commerce: The Making of American Human Rights”
October 16, 2017
Yulia Frumer, Johns Hopkins University
“A new species of robot is born”
320 York Street, HGS 211
October 9, 2017
Nukhet Varlik, Rutgers University – Newark
“Plague, Ecology, and Empire: Re-thinking the History of the Second Pandemic”
320 York Street, HGS 211
September 11, 2017
Christina Ramos, Washington University in St. Louis
“Bedlam in the New World: Institutions of Madness in Colonial Mexico”
320 York Street, HGS 211
Thursday, November 2, 5 pm, HGS 204
Public Disclosures of Private Realities: HIV/AIDS, Healthcare, and the Domestic Archive
Stephen Vider – Bryn Mawr College