Sue Peabody’s contribution to the online roundtable recognizing the prize-winning Caribbean New Orleans: Race, Empire, and the Making of a Slave Society (UNC, 2019), by Cécile Vidal (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), has been published by the Toynbee Prize Foundation:
Alan Malfavon will be giving a talk tomorrow on one of his current book project’s chapters at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, for the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute’s “American Origins” Seminar. The chapter is entitled “Afro-insurgents vs. Afro-royalists: Early Mexican War of Independence and Cádiz liberalism, 1810-1813.” During the talk he will share the […]
On the midterm elections, Matt Sutton was briefly interviewed on the BBC’s Sunday religion/news show. His interview begins at the 32:09 mark.: . On Wednesday, he published the following in the Washington Post
For the second year in a row, Jesse Spohnholz co-organized a five-panel series at the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference in Minneapolis, MN, October 27-31, titled “The Loose Ends of History” aimed at providing alternative narratives from early modern history by asking new questions of underutilized sources. He presented on his own research on sixteenth-century […]
Erin Hvizdak is presenting her paper, “Universalizing Solitude: Parisian Commemoration of a Maroon Woman’s Resistance,” at the meeting of the Western Society for French History in Victoria, BC, November 5, 2022. This paper grew out of her research in History 571 last spring, and developed further over the summer with her travel to Paris.
Sue Peabody, Professor of History, WSU Vancouver, was the discussant for the panel “Global Perspectives on Using Names of Liberated Africans in Digital Humanities Projects,” international Virtual Workshop on the Ethics and Politics of Naming the Names of Enslaved People in Digital Humanities Projects, hosted by Stanford University, October 28, 2022. She is also participating […]