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WIGH: The Involvement of Bank and Insurance Companies in the Atlantic Slave Trade

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Christian Cwik, Chair for Atlantic and European History, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago https://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-christian-cwik?delta…

Hutchins Center: Comparative Abolition in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans: A Research Conference

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The newly formed Leeds Baines Group for the Comparative Study of Unfree Labour together with the Working Group on Comparative Slavery (founded at Harvard in 2015) aim to bring together scholars working on slavery and indenture for a two-day conference...

MHS: Commerce and the Material Culture of the Maritime Atlantic World

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J. Ritchie Garrison, University of Delaware This talk considers the maritime economy in the early modern Atlantic World, focusing on the infrastructure of commercial exchanges as port cities adapted to larger ships, increased consumer goods, and...

Samantha Payne Awarded the Allan Nevins Prize for Her Dissertation, “The Last Atlantic Revolution: Reconstruction and the Struggle for Democracy in the Americas, 1861-1912”

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2023 Samantha Payne (Harvard University), "The Last Atlantic Revolution: Reconstruction and the Struggle for Democracy in the Americas, 1861-1912" Payne’s dissertation is an extraordinary historical provocation. Embracing the challenges and reaping the...

(Early Modern Workshop) The America Company: from networks to institutions in the Anglo-Dutch seventeenth-century Atlantic.

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Early Modern Workshop Joris van den Tol (Post-doctoral Rubicon Scholar, Harvard University/University of Leiden), “The America Company: from networks to institutions in the Anglo-Dutch seventeenth-century Atlantic.” Commentator: Sergio Leos. Please email...

MHS: Palatable Slavery: Food, Race, and Freedom in the British Atlantic, 1620-1838

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Heather Sanford, Brown University This project uses food in the British Atlantic to understand ideas about the body, race, and freedom. In New England, the Caribbean, and the Gold Coast of Africa, supplies of foodstuffs sustained colonization and slavery...

MHS: The Irish Atlantic: A Story of Famine, Migration, & Opportunity Open at the Massachusetts Historical Society

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Explore the impact of generations of Irish in Boston from famine relief efforts to a mass migration movement, community and institutional building, and a rise in political power. The Irish have long been an important presence in Boston. The Irish Atlantic...

Early Modern History Workshop - “Trade and Lawsuits across the Atlantic: litigation involving Sephardic and converso traders in sixteenth and seventeenth century Amsterdam, Porto and Brazil”

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Speaker: Daniel Strum (University of São Paulo and Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton) Talk Title: “Trade and Lawsuits across the Atlantic: litigation involving Sephardic and converso traders in sixteenth and seventeenth century Amsterdam, Porto and...

DRCLAS: Cuban Studies Program: "West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807-1844"

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Speaker: Manuel Barcia Paz, University of Leeds Manuel Barcia is a Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Leeds. He's the author of three books and several articles focusing on the experiences of the African Diaspora in Cuba and Brazil. His...

WIGH HIGHS Seminar: "Braudel, Profound History, and the Battle of the Atlantic in 1943" | Paul Kennedy, Yale University

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Paul Kennedy , Yale University "Braudel, Profound History, and the Battle of the Atlantic in 1943" Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) Co-chairs: David Armitage and Erez Manela The Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS)...

Harvard International and Global History Seminar The New Atlantic Order, 1860-1933

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Speaker: Patrick O. Cohrs, Professor of International History, University of Florence Chair: Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History, Harvard University In his new book, The New Atlantic Order (2022), Patrick O. Cohrs offers an...

Emancipation and the Atlantic Vortex

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Adam Rothman (Georgetown University) A continuation of last year's Emancipation at 150 series