Age of Revolutions

2023-2024

November 7, 2023
Nathalie Pierre, Howard University
“”Quiet Possession:” The Second Haitian Civil War and André Rigaud’s Political Vision”

December 11, 2023
Maurizio Isabella, Queen Mary, University of London
Book Panel on The Age of Revolutions in Southern Europe

January 30, 2024
Erika Pani, Colegio de México
“Torn Asunder: Republican Crisis and Civil War in North America, 1848–1867”

March 18, 2024
Dee Andrews, CSU East Bay
Christopher Parmenter, The Ohio State University
“Thomas Clarkson’s Latin Essay: The Making of an Abolitionist Manifesto”

April 10, 2024
Jessica Balguy, Carnegie Mellon University
“Indemniser l’esclavage en 1848? L’heure des comptes pour les propriétaires de couleur de la Martinique”

May 23, 2024
Jorge Myers, Carnegie Mellon University
“The Uses of Fiction in the Latin American Nineteenth Century Context”

 

2022-2023

December 6, 2022
Manuel Covo, University of California, Santa Barbara
Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Dominique, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance

January 24, 2023
José Maria Portillo Valdés, Universidad del País Vasco
Una historia atlántica de los orígenes de la Nación y el Estado. España y las Españas en el siglo XIX 

Flavia Macías, Universidade de São Paulo
“Guerra, comércio e política: as guerras civis nas províncias do Brasil e a Experiência Insurgente (1817-1850)”

Oliver Cussen, University of Chicago
“Irrigation and the Environmental Limits to Growth in Pre-Revolutionary Saint-Domingue”

May 25, 2023
María Teresa Calderón, Universidad Externado de Colombia

Oceanic Roots of the Atlantic Revolutions: Age of Revolutions Seminar Series

2020-2021

November 17, 2020
Charles F. Walker, University of California, Davis
Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Online 

December 8, 2020
Ashli White, University of Miami
“Revolutionary Things”
Online

January 12, 2021
David A. Bell, Princeton University
Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (2020)
Online

February 2, 2021
Mary D. Lewis, Harvard University
“The First French Decolonization,” the first chapter of Transplanting Empire: France and the World after the Haitian Revolution
Online 

March 17, 2021
Bárbara Zepeda, Lehigh University
“Minister, Madman, Mastermind:
José de Gálvez and the Transformation of the Spanish Empire”
Online

April 6, 2021
Julia Gaffield, Georgia State University
Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Freedom or Death
Online

April 27, 2021
Gabriel Entin, Universidad de Chile
“Political Hebraism in the Spanish American Revolutions”
Online 

May 19, 2021
Sara Johnson, University of California, San Diego
“Between the Archive and the Speculative Turn: Notes Towards a Communal Biography of Moreau de Saint-Méry” (precirculated)
Online 

June 8, 2021
Katlyn Carter, University of Norte Dame
“Houses of Glass: Secrecy, Transparency, and the Birth of Representative Democracy” (precirculated)
Online

June 28, 2021
Magdalena Candioti, National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET)
“Latin American Abolitionist Dialogues” (precirculated)
Online

 

2018

June 4 – 8, 2018
Oceanic Roots of the Atlantic Revolutions, Summer Seminar
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – USC Paris, France