Early Modern Global History Seminar
Early Modern Global History Seminar
Fall 2011
Sponsored by the Georgetown Institute for Global History, Department of History, Georgetown University
All seminars will meet on the Georgetown campus in ICC 662, on Fridays from 3:30-5, followed by a social hour. Papers are circulated in advance. All graduate students, faculty members, and independent scholars are invited to attend. Please email Kathy Buc Gallagher (kbg22@georgetown.edu) if you wish to have your name added to the seminar’s email list.
Fall 2011
September 23, Simon Newman, Department of History, University of Glasgow “ ‘A spirit of liberty’: Slave labor in Gold Coast castles and forts”
October 21, Daniel Livesay, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, College of William and Mary, “Heirs’ Breadth: Jamaica’s 1761 Inheritance Cap and Mixed-Race Families on Both Sides of the Atlantic”
November 18, Dominique Deslandres, Department of History, University of Montreal, “The French Quest for People: Some Hypothesis Regarding French Expansion in America during the 16th-18th Centuries”
Spring 2012
January 27, Judith Tucker, Department of History, Georgetown University, "Crossing Borders: An Eighteenth Century Exile from Algiers in Colonial Virginia"
February 17, Edward Kolla, Georgetown School of Foreign Service, Qatar, "Early Modern Origins of the Alien Tort Statute"
April 27, Karin Wulf, Departments of History and American Studies, College of William and Mary, "The Origins of Early Republic Genealogical Vogue"
