The Americas Before 1900 Working Group
Autumn 2014 Calendar
(all events take place on Friday)
9/26 Dr. Pedro Cardim (Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Visiting Professor, NYU), “Portugal, the Spanish Monarchy and the Iberian world (16th-18th centuries): Recent Historiographical Perspectives”
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese and the Iberian Studies Working Group, 2:20-3:40, Hagerty Hall 255
10/10 Dr. Byron Hamann (History of Art, OSU), “Fieldnotes from Solaris / Mediterratlantic Slavery”
1-2 pm, Location TBA
11/14 Dr. Stephanie Kirk (Washington University in St. Louis), “Conceptualizing the Early Modern Americas”
1-2 pm, George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15th Ave.
12/5 Dr. Luis Fernando Restrepo (University of Arkansas), “Lecciones de la conquista sobre la justicia transicional y las sociedades posconflicto: El Tratado de las doce dudas (1564) de Bartolomé de las Casas”
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese and the Continuity and Change in the Andes and Amazonia Working Group, 2:20-3:40, Hagerty Hall 255
Lecture will be in Spanish.
12/12 Dr. Roxann Wheeler (English, OSU), “Performing Black Characters from the Americas on the Eighteenth-Century British Comedic Stage”
1-2 pm, George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15th Ave.