The vogue for "ethnicity" in many fields of historical study has reified a concept for which there is little direct evidence in the historical record before ...
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The study of captivity in the early modern Mediterranean has largely relied on European and Ottoman sources. The Arabic archive furnishes further information ...
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In the next Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture on October 24, João Fragoso and Thiago Krause will do a comparative analysis of the two largest slaving ports in ...
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What were the intricacies of slavery in 18th and 19th-century Nepal? This talk explores slavery's typology, the role of slaves in social order, processes of ...
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How important is the little-known return of severely ill ex-inmates from Stalinist penitentiaries (1930-1953) compared to the widely known transfers within the ...
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How were the lives of indigenous children who worked as domestic servants in colonial Lima shaped by their roles in their masters' households? This talk ...
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This talk seeks to advance critical dialogue about historians’ choices of topic, sources, and methods, asking what kinds of silences become ...
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Extreme weather events, changing precipitation, and sea-level rise have made thosecliving in the global north more mindful of the vulnerability of lives and ...
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What are the connections between unfree labour and recent changes in Brazilian politics? Our first lecture of the year discusses why it is important to talk ...
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One of the most celebrated extant medieval Arabic manuscripts is an illustrated copy of the Maqāmāt (Assemblies) of Abu Muhmmad al-Qasim ibn ‘Ali al-Hariri ...
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