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).
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
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.
We Were Here- The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, directed by Fred Kudjo Kuwornu and exhibited at the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, sheds light on the overlooked presence of African and Black indivi
The next meeting of the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies 2024-2025 series will take place virtually on Friday, February 7th, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. (EST) via Zoom. Dr. Douglas Boyce and Dr.
Join us in reading a variety of texts from the Medieval Period across many different genres. We meet once a month, with texts circulated three weeks prior.
