Events

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Upcoming Events

The Inner Life of Race

Calling into question accounts of race as a politics of embodiment, this talk approaches race instead as a biopolitics of populational threat that relies on a longstanding dialectic of body and soul.

From Slaves and Fairies to Kind and Unkind Girls Poster

From Slaves and Fairies to Kind and Unkind Girls: How the Fairy Tale Became White

In this talk, Kimberly Lau offers intertwined readings of several cognate fairy tales that revolve around true and false brides, beginning with Black slaves and white fairies in 17th-century Naples and tracing their evolution into (implicitly raced but unmarked) kind and unkind girls in 19th-cent

Energy Transitions in Long Modernity: Day 2

Organized by:

Robert N. Watson, UCLA
Tiffany Jo Werth, UC Davis
Todd Borlik, Purdue University

Co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS, Center for Early Global Studies, and the UC Davis Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program

Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life & Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s-1580s)

Join us as Historian and Professor Ali Anooshahr provides insight on his new book, Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s).