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By Editor February 18, 2026

OI Author Conversation with Paul Polgar & Ronald A. Johnson

Join us ONLINE on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, for “Teaching about Slavery & Emancipation in the Age of Revolutions” with Paul Polgar (Tufts University), author of Standard-Bearers of Equality: America’s First Abolition Movement” (Omohundro Institute with UNC Press, 2019—new in paper in 2025), and Ronald A. Johnson (Baylor University), author of Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University… Read More

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By Editor January 13, 2026

Colloq with Joseph La Hausse de Lalouvière

“Interpreting the Napoleonic Restoration of Slavery” A colloq with Joseph La Hausse de Lalouvière (University of Edinburgh) Please note that all colloquia papers are pre-circulated. Please register via the link below to receive a copy. The Napoleonic decision in 1802 to revoke emancipation and seek to reenslave more than 500,000 people in the Caribbean braided together two distinct… Read More

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By Editor May 15, 2025

OI Author Conversation with Mary Hicks

Join Mary Hicks (University of Chicago), author of Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery (OI with partner UNC Press), in conversation with James Sweet (University of Wisconsin, Madison) online on Thursday, May 29, 2025, at NOON Eastern Time. REGISTER HERE Mary Hicks is an historian of the Black Atlantic at… Read More

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By Editor October 09, 2024

CFP: Pre-conference Workshop

Pre-conference Workshop “Resisting Enslavement” June 11, 2025 Convened by Jennifer L. Morgan Scholars are invited to apply for a one-day pre-conference workshop convened by Jennifer L. Morgan to take place at the College of Charleston on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. “Resisting Enslavement” will allow scholars to pre-circulate and discuss papers, articles, and/or chapters in progress focused on instances of… Read More

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By Editor October 09, 2024

CFP: 28th OI Annual Conference

28th Annual OI Conference “Currents and Exchanges in Vast Early America” The 28th Omohundro Institute annual conference will take place in Charleston, South Carolina, with the support of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) Program at the College of Charleston from Thursday, June 12 to Saturday, June 14, 2025. The program committee, co-chaired by Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University) and Matthew… Read More

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By Editor August 22, 2023

WMQ-EMSI Workshop, "Resisting Enslavement in Vast Early America"

RESISTING ENSLAVEMENT IN VAST EARLY AMERICA WMQ-EMSI WORKSHOP 2024 May 30 – June 1  HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, SAN MARINO, CALIFORNIA CONVENER: Jennifer L. Morgan From the Call for Proposals Scroll down to read the full program The histories of Black people in vast early America are grounded in refusal. Men,… Read More

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