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
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
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
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
