Seminar Leader: 
John Marquez, UC Riverside

2026-2027 Events

 

 

 

Friday, October 16, 2026

“‘Forgetting that he was chance child’: The Enslaved Childhood of Julius Soubise in Britain’s Georgian Empire”

The Huntington
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver 1 & 2
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon (PT)

Register to attend by October 9.

 

Friday, February 5, 2027

“‘Privy to this barbarous murder’: Memory, Slavery, and the Violence of Ordinary People”

The Huntington
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver 1 & 2
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon (PT)

Register to attend by January 29.

 

Friday, April 2, 2027

“Fashioning Race in Early Brazil: How Jesuits Institutionalized while Opposing Indigenous Slavery”

The Huntington
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver 1 & 2
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon (PT)

Register to attend by March 25.

The History of Enslavement Seminar is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the University of California, Riverside.

Image: “Northwest Africa, Mediterranean area, southern Europe,” Portolan atlas, HM 39. Portuguese, c. 1625-50. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.