The purpose of this lecture is to present - from the perspective on race and gender studies - how the representations of these social markers were mobilized in the 2018 elections, especially the presidential election. The dispute between leading candidates demonstrated that the public debate around these issues was crucial for this election. The question to the discussion is: Do the division of perspectives and narratives represent a division of Brazilian society about race and gender?

Márcia Lima is Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of São Paulo, and a...

A discussion with Sally Hayes on Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Black Militiamen, Tribute, and Privilege.

**More information will be available as the event approaches**

Presenter: Tamara Walker (University of Toronto)

Talk Title: Slavery and Mastery in the South Sea Armada

Sponsored by: Early Modern Events at the Latin American Workshop

Location: CGIS, S450

Date: 04/10/19

Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm

This seminar features a pre-circulated paper, available at alari@fas.harvard.edu

Presenter: Christina Davidson (Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History)

Talk Title: The Dominican Protestants: Historical Narrative, Religious Freedom, and Property Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Santo Domingo

Sponsored by: Early Modern Events at the Latin American Workshop

Location: CGIS, S450

Date: 03/27/19

Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Presenter: Thomas Duve (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt)

Talk Title: Using History in Law: Indigenous Rights

Sponsored by: Early Modern Events at the Latin American Workshop

Location: CGIS, S450

Date: 02/27/19

Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Presenter: Max Deardorff (The University of Florida)

Talk Title: Indigenous Masters of a casa poblada: Indios ladinos and vecindad in Colonial New Kingdom of Granada

Sponsored by: Early Modern Events at the Latin American Workshop

Location: CGIS, S450

Date: 02/27/19

Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Presenter: Sergio Serulnikov (Universidad de San Andrés-Conicet, Argentina)

Talk Title: What Invoking the King´s Name Meant (and What it Did Not). Popular Royalism in Late Colonial Charcas

Sponsored by: Early Modern Events at the Latin American Workshop

Location: CGIS, S450

Date: 02/13/19

Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Presenter: Mary Hicks (Amherst College, Mamolen Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research).

Talk Title: Ports of Sanctuary: Maritime Marronage, Imperial Law and the Judicial Imaginary of Enslaved Mariners

Sponsored by: Early Modern Events at the Latin American Workshop

Location: CGIS, S450

Date: 01/30/19

Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm

By Invitation only. Not open to the public.

(Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff)

Featuring:

Martine Jean, WIGH Fellow

Comments by: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard

Featuring:

Marta Grzechnik, Fellow at WIGH and CES; University of Gdansk

Comments by:
Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University

Read the paper below:

Featuring:

Philip Landrigan, Boston College Global Health and Harvard School of Public Health; Bruce Lanphear, Simon Frasier University; Paul A. Mayewski, Climate Change Institute, UMaine;  Michael McCormick, Harvard; Alexander More, Harvard; Jessica Reyes, Amherst College...

Featuring:

Heather Clifford, Andrei V. Kurbatov and Paul A. Mayewski, Climate Change Institute; Michael McCormick and Alexander More, Harvard 

Comments by:

Kyle Harper, University of Oklahoma

Public reception to follow

Featuring:

Tony Badger, Northumbria University

Featuring:

Tony Badger, Northumbria University