Past Events
Fellow's Talk
May 22, 2013 - 12:30pm
Céline Carayon, Salisbury University, National Endowment for the Humanities / InterAmericas Fellow. " ‘Many Signs of Friendship’: Recovering Nonverbal Communication in the Early French-Indian Atlantic World, 1500-1700."
Fellow's Talk
May 15, 2013 - 12:30pm
Tamara J. Walker, University of Pennsylvania, John Bockstoce Fellow. "“Slavery and Seafaring in the Pacific World, 1573-1779."
Annual Meeting of the Associates of the JCB
May 10, 2013 - 5:30 pm
Nathaniel Philbrick, the author of the newly-published, Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution. CANCELLED
May 22, 2013 - 12:30pm
Céline Carayon, Salisbury University, National Endowment for the Humanities / InterAmericas Fellow. " ‘Many Signs of Friendship’: Recovering Nonverbal Communication in the Early French-Indian Atlantic World, 1500-1700."
Fellow's Talk
May 15, 2013 - 12:30pm
Tamara J. Walker, University of Pennsylvania, John Bockstoce Fellow. "“Slavery and Seafaring in the Pacific World, 1573-1779."
Annual Meeting of the Associates of the JCB
May 10, 2013 - 5:30 pm
Nathaniel Philbrick, the author of the newly-published, Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution. CANCELLED
Seminar
May 6, 2013 - 4 pm
Sarah Barber, Lancaster University, "Dictatorship, Liberty, and Fish-sticks. Suriname: 1667 and 2011."
Fellow's Talk
May 8, 2013 - 12:30pm
Katherine L. McDonough, Stanford University, Jane L. Keddy Memorial Fellow. "Building Communities: Infrastructure and Labor in 17th-18th Century French Atlantic Colonies."
Fellow's Talk
May 1, 2013 - 12:30pm
Hal Langfur, SUNY Buffalo, R. David Parsons / Donald L. Saunders Research Fellow . “ 'We Ourselves Are Cannibals': Wilderness Reconnaissance and the Conversion of the Brazilian State."
Symposium
May 6, 2013 - 4 pm
Sarah Barber, Lancaster University, "Dictatorship, Liberty, and Fish-sticks. Suriname: 1667 and 2011."
Fellow's Talk
May 8, 2013 - 12:30pm
Katherine L. McDonough, Stanford University, Jane L. Keddy Memorial Fellow. "Building Communities: Infrastructure and Labor in 17th-18th Century French Atlantic Colonies."
Fellow's Talk
May 1, 2013 - 12:30pm
Hal Langfur, SUNY Buffalo, R. David Parsons / Donald L. Saunders Research Fellow . “ 'We Ourselves Are Cannibals': Wilderness Reconnaissance and the Conversion of the Brazilian State."
Symposium
April 26, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm. The Classical Tradition in the Atlantic World. Co-sponsored by Departments of Hispanic Studies and Classics at Brown University and the John Carter Brown Library
Workshop
April 25, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm in the John Carter Brown Library. "Printing and the Classical Tradition in the Atlantic World," led by Ken Ward, Maury A. Bromsen Curator of Latin American Books.
Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Lecture
April 24, José A. Rodríguez Garrido, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Tinker Visiting Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago (Spring 2013). "Classical Myth on Stage: Theater from Imperial Propaganda to Creole Project in Colonial Lima."
Fellow's Talk
April 24, 2013 - 12:30pm
Sebastián Díaz Angel, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, COLOMBIA, Maria Elena Cassiet / Alice E. Adams Fellow. "The First Printed Map of Peru: Controversies, Hypothesis and Knowledge Networks about the New World."
Fellow's Talk
April 17, 2013 - 12:30pm
Ana Hontanilla, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Donald Saunders Fellow. Sentiment and the Law. Spanish Transatlantic Writings on African Slavery (1783-1795)."
Fellow's Talk
April 10, 2013 - 12:30pm
Diane M. Boucher, Clark University, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom / Charles H. Watts II Fellow. "Observers of Uncharted Territories: Late Eighteenth Century Accounts of East Florida Geography, Nature, and Inhabitants."
Workshop
April 25, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm in the John Carter Brown Library. "Printing and the Classical Tradition in the Atlantic World," led by Ken Ward, Maury A. Bromsen Curator of Latin American Books.
Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Lecture
April 24, José A. Rodríguez Garrido, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Tinker Visiting Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago (Spring 2013). "Classical Myth on Stage: Theater from Imperial Propaganda to Creole Project in Colonial Lima."
Fellow's Talk
April 24, 2013 - 12:30pm
Sebastián Díaz Angel, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, COLOMBIA, Maria Elena Cassiet / Alice E. Adams Fellow. "The First Printed Map of Peru: Controversies, Hypothesis and Knowledge Networks about the New World."
Fellow's Talk
April 17, 2013 - 12:30pm
Ana Hontanilla, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Donald Saunders Fellow. Sentiment and the Law. Spanish Transatlantic Writings on African Slavery (1783-1795)."
Fellow's Talk
April 10, 2013 - 12:30pm
Diane M. Boucher, Clark University, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom / Charles H. Watts II Fellow. "Observers of Uncharted Territories: Late Eighteenth Century Accounts of East Florida Geography, Nature, and Inhabitants."
Seminar Presentation
April 4, 2013 - 5pm
Brendan McConville, Professor of History, Boston University: "Rebellion and Reaction: The Paradox of Anti Popery in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1773-1783." JCB | Brown British Atlantic Seminar (JBBAS).
April 4, 2013 - 5pm
Brendan McConville, Professor of History, Boston University: "Rebellion and Reaction: The Paradox of Anti Popery in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1773-1783." JCB | Brown British Atlantic Seminar (JBBAS).
Fellow's Talk
April 3, 2013 - 12:30pm
Andréa Doré, Universidade Federal do Paraná, BRAZIL, Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow. "When America was Peruvianae:Traditions in the Naming of South America."
April 3, 2013 - 12:30pm
Andréa Doré, Universidade Federal do Paraná, BRAZIL, Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow. "When America was Peruvianae:Traditions in the Naming of South America."
Conservation Conversation
April 2, 2013 - 5:30pm
Susan Danforth and Robert Hauser the second in an ocassional series, "When Ink Eats Paper: A Short History on Writing Inks and Implements as Concerns Iron Gall Ink and Preservation of the 17th-Century Manuscript Atlas by William Hack."
April 2, 2013 - 5:30pm
Susan Danforth and Robert Hauser the second in an ocassional series, "When Ink Eats Paper: A Short History on Writing Inks and Implements as Concerns Iron Gall Ink and Preservation of the 17th-Century Manuscript Atlas by William Hack."
John Russell Bartlett Membership Night
March 28, 2013 - 5:30pm
Russell DeSimone will speak on “RI Broadsides: A Collector’s Perspective."
Fellow's Talk
March 27, 2013 - 12:30pm
Mairin Odle, New York University, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow. " ‘Their wild hieroglyphics‘: Encountering Early American Tattoos."
Fellow's Talk
March 20, 2013 - 12:30pm
Rebecca Goetz, Rice University, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow. "Indian Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1500-1700."
Symposium
March 14, 2013 - 12:30pm
Early Florida: The Missing Piece. Symposium given in conjunction with the JCB's current exhibition, "The Florida Story 1513 to 1783: Reconnaissance and Rivalry on a Maritime Periphery." This event is chaired by Amy Turner Bushnell (JCB, Invited Research Scholar).
Lecture
March 13, 2013 - 12:30pm
David Hurst Thomas, Curator of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.), Whatever Happened to the Franciscan Missions of Spanish Florida?
Fellow's Talk
March 13, 2013 - 12:30pm
Benjamin Reed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, José Amor Y Vazquez Fellow. "Oratorian History in Mexico City, 1650-1850: The Politics of Religious Identity Formation."
Fellow's Talk
March 6, 2013 - 12:30pm
Julia Gaffield, Independent Scholar, Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow. "Layers of Recognition: Haiti and the Atlantic World."
Fellow's Talk
March 27, 2013 - 12:30pm
Mairin Odle, New York University, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow. " ‘Their wild hieroglyphics‘: Encountering Early American Tattoos."
Fellow's Talk
March 20, 2013 - 12:30pm
Rebecca Goetz, Rice University, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow. "Indian Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1500-1700."
Symposium
March 14, 2013 - 12:30pm
Early Florida: The Missing Piece. Symposium given in conjunction with the JCB's current exhibition, "The Florida Story 1513 to 1783: Reconnaissance and Rivalry on a Maritime Periphery." This event is chaired by Amy Turner Bushnell (JCB, Invited Research Scholar).
Lecture
March 13, 2013 - 12:30pm
David Hurst Thomas, Curator of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.), Whatever Happened to the Franciscan Missions of Spanish Florida?
Fellow's Talk
March 13, 2013 - 12:30pm
Benjamin Reed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, José Amor Y Vazquez Fellow. "Oratorian History in Mexico City, 1650-1850: The Politics of Religious Identity Formation."
Fellow's Talk
March 6, 2013 - 12:30pm
Julia Gaffield, Independent Scholar, Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow. "Layers of Recognition: Haiti and the Atlantic World."
Fellow's Talk
February 27, 2013 - 12:30pm
Nathan Probasco, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow. “Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s 1583 Voyage and England’s Earliest Mapping of New England.”
Book Talk
February 27, 2013 - 12:30pm
Nathan Probasco, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow. “Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s 1583 Voyage and England’s Earliest Mapping of New England.”
Book Talk
February 20, 2013 - 5:30pm
Timothy Coates, College of Charleston, will speak on his English language translation of André João Antonil, Cultural e opulencia do Brasil, Lisbon, 1711.
Fellow's Talk
February 20, 2013 - 12:30pm
Benjamin P. Breen, University of Texas at Austin , Almeida Family Fellow. "Are Drugs Early Modern?"
Timothy Coates, College of Charleston, will speak on his English language translation of André João Antonil, Cultural e opulencia do Brasil, Lisbon, 1711.
Fellow's Talk
February 20, 2013 - 12:30pm
Benjamin P. Breen, University of Texas at Austin , Almeida Family Fellow. "Are Drugs Early Modern?"
Fellow's Talk
February 14, 2013 - 12:30pm
Sophie Brockmann, University of Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM, Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellow. " 'All the precious plants of the Orient’: Natural history, Newspapers and Knowledge Networks in Late-Colonial Central America."
February 14, 2013 - 12:30pm
Sophie Brockmann, University of Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM, Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellow. " 'All the precious plants of the Orient’: Natural history, Newspapers and Knowledge Networks in Late-Colonial Central America."
Fellow's Talk
February 7, 2013 - 12:30pm
Elena Daniele, Brown University, J. M. Stuart Fellow. "New World Cannibalism and the European Imagination."
Fellow's Talk
January 30, 2013 - 12:30pm
Michelle Marchetti Coughlin, Independent scholar, will speak on her book, One Colonial Woman’s World: The Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit.
February 7, 2013 - 12:30pm
Elena Daniele, Brown University, J. M. Stuart Fellow. "New World Cannibalism and the European Imagination."
Fellow's Talk
January 30, 2013 - 12:30pm
Michelle Marchetti Coughlin, Independent scholar, will speak on her book, One Colonial Woman’s World: The Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit.
Fellow's Talk
January 23, 2013 - 12:30pm
James Robertson, University of the West Indies, Mona, JAMAICA. InterAmericas Fellow, funded by The Reed Foundation. " 'The Protector’s Darling': Jamaica in Oliver Cromwell’s Western Design."
Fellow's Talk
January 16, 2013 - 12:30pm
Patrick Funiciello, George Washington University, Alexander O. Vietor Memorial Fellow. “ 'It is a wonderful thing to behold the great gain and profit which is gotten in this river and in this country': Early Modern Buenos Aires and the Via Contrabando of Potosí."
January 23, 2013 - 12:30pm
James Robertson, University of the West Indies, Mona, JAMAICA. InterAmericas Fellow, funded by The Reed Foundation. " 'The Protector’s Darling': Jamaica in Oliver Cromwell’s Western Design."
Fellow's Talk
January 16, 2013 - 12:30pm
Patrick Funiciello, George Washington University, Alexander O. Vietor Memorial Fellow. “ 'It is a wonderful thing to behold the great gain and profit which is gotten in this river and in this country': Early Modern Buenos Aires and the Via Contrabando of Potosí."
Fellow's Talk
December 12, 2012 - 12:30pm
Linda Sturtz, Beloit College, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. "Set Girls, Calemba, and Myal: Contextualizing African-Jamaican Women's Musical Processions in the Pre-Emancipation Period."
Book Talk
December 12, 2012 - 12:30pm
Linda Sturtz, Beloit College, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. "Set Girls, Calemba, and Myal: Contextualizing African-Jamaican Women's Musical Processions in the Pre-Emancipation Period."
Book Talk
December 5, 2012 - 5:30pm
Jeremy Ravi Mumford of Brown University, will speak on his new book, Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes.
Fellow's Talk
December 5, 2012 - 12:30pm
Lisa Voigt, The Ohio State University, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, "The Wealth of Festivals in Colonial South American Mining Towns."
Fellow's Talk
November 28, 2012 - 12:30pm
Sandra Young,University of Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA, Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow. "Textual Form and the Visibility of Colonial Violence: Thomas Harriot’s A Briefe and True Report (1588 and 1590)."
Fellow's Talk
November 21, 2012 - 12:30pm
Fellow's Talk
November 14, 2012 - 12:30pm
April G. Shelford, American University, Donald L. Saunders / InterAmericas Fellow, funded by The Reed Foundation. "Savvy. Surveillant. Sublime: How-to Writings for Planters in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean."
Concert
November 10, 2012 - 4:00 pm
Jeremy Ravi Mumford of Brown University, will speak on his new book, Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes.
Fellow's Talk
December 5, 2012 - 12:30pm
Lisa Voigt, The Ohio State University, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, "The Wealth of Festivals in Colonial South American Mining Towns."
Fellow's Talk
November 28, 2012 - 12:30pm
Sandra Young,University of Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA, Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow. "Textual Form and the Visibility of Colonial Violence: Thomas Harriot’s A Briefe and True Report (1588 and 1590)."
Fellow's Talk
November 21, 2012 - 12:30pm
Fellow's Talk
November 14, 2012 - 12:30pm
April G. Shelford, American University, Donald L. Saunders / InterAmericas Fellow, funded by The Reed Foundation. "Savvy. Surveillant. Sublime: How-to Writings for Planters in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean."
Concert
November 10, 2012 - 4:00 pm
Community MusicWorks, Bach and Biber.
Talk
Talk
November 8, 2012 - 5:30pm
“Conservation Conversation” featuring JCB Curator of Maps Susan Danforth and Conservationist Robert Hauser discussing repair of the John Carter Brown Library's magnficent copy of the Atlantic Neptune.
Fellow's Talk
November 7, 2012 - 12:30pm
Elizabeth del Pilar Montañez Sanabria, University of California, Davis, John R. Bockstoce Fellow. "Breaking the 'Locks' of the South Sea: Pirates in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1570-1700."
Fellow's Talk
October 31, 2012 - 12:30pm
Liliana Pérez Miguel, Universidad de Burgos, SPAIN, Maury A. Bromsen Fellow. "Breaking Boundaries: Female Encomenderas in Early Peru (1535-1600)."
Fellow's Talk
November 7, 2012 - 12:30pm
Elizabeth del Pilar Montañez Sanabria, University of California, Davis, John R. Bockstoce Fellow. "Breaking the 'Locks' of the South Sea: Pirates in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1570-1700."
Fellow's Talk
October 31, 2012 - 12:30pm
Liliana Pérez Miguel, Universidad de Burgos, SPAIN, Maury A. Bromsen Fellow. "Breaking Boundaries: Female Encomenderas in Early Peru (1535-1600)."
Fellow's Talk
October 24, 2012 - 12:30pm
Roger Stoddard, Curator, Houghton Library, Harvard University, will speak on “The Education of a Bibliographer by Lawrence Wroth.”
Watts Event
October 23, 2012 - 5:30 pm
Tom Horrocks, Director of Special Collections and the John Hay Library, “Promoting Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter: Lincoln’s Campaign Biographies and the Making of an Image.”
Fellow's Talk
October 17, 2012 - 12:30pm
Ayesha Ramachandran, State University of New York, Stony Brook, R. David Parsons / Donald L. Saunders Research Fellow. "Cosmopoesis: A Literary History of Mercator’s Atlas."
Talk
Lucas Mason Brown, "Roger Williams' Lost Treatise: Learning and Using Shorthand to Reveal a 17th Century Mystery." Limited to 15 Brown/RISD undergraduate students. JCB Conference Room.
Fellow's Talk
October 10, 2012 - 12:30pm
Derek Burdette, Tulane University, Helen Watson Buckner Memorial / John Alden Memorial / Reese Company Fellow. “Sacred Statues and Devotional Books: Reconstructing the Reception of the Señor de Santa Teresa in 19th-Century Mexico.”
October 23, 2012 - 5:30 pm
Tom Horrocks, Director of Special Collections and the John Hay Library, “Promoting Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter: Lincoln’s Campaign Biographies and the Making of an Image.”
Fellow's Talk
October 17, 2012 - 12:30pm
Ayesha Ramachandran, State University of New York, Stony Brook, R. David Parsons / Donald L. Saunders Research Fellow. "Cosmopoesis: A Literary History of Mercator’s Atlas."
Talk
Lucas Mason Brown, "Roger Williams' Lost Treatise: Learning and Using Shorthand to Reveal a 17th Century Mystery." Limited to 15 Brown/RISD undergraduate students. JCB Conference Room.
Fellow's Talk
October 10, 2012 - 12:30pm
Derek Burdette, Tulane University, Helen Watson Buckner Memorial / John Alden Memorial / Reese Company Fellow. “Sacred Statues and Devotional Books: Reconstructing the Reception of the Señor de Santa Teresa in 19th-Century Mexico.”
Fellow's Talk
October 3, 2012 - 12:30pm
Maria José Afanador, University of Texas, Austin, Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow. "The Unrealized Potential of New Granada’s Nature: The Isthmus of Panama and the Geopolitics of Imperial Dissolution, 1780-1830."
October 3, 2012 - 12:30pm
Maria José Afanador, University of Texas, Austin, Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow. "The Unrealized Potential of New Granada’s Nature: The Isthmus of Panama and the Geopolitics of Imperial Dissolution, 1780-1830."
Talk
September 25, 2012 - 4:00 pm.
September 25, 2012 - 4:00 pm.