Events

Feb

6

Lecture

Plains, Hills and Mountains: The Balkan Peninsula in the Eighteenth Century with Professor Molly Greene

Location:

Linderman Library, Room 200

February 6, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

This talk is intended as a response to Faruk Tabak’s sweeping study of the Mediterranean, The Waning of the Mediterranean 1550-1870: A Geohistorical Approach (2008). In the book Tabak argues that Mediterranean unity continued long past Braudel’s famous sixteenth century. The…

Feb

18

Lecture

Ethiopia’s Outstretched Hand: James Bruce’s Ethiopianism and the African Origins of a Global Idea with Rebekah Mitsein

Location:

STEPS 101

February 18, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

In James Bruce’s Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790), he makes a bold claim about the origins of humanity: Egypt was populated from Africa up; culture and learning spread from Ethiopia out. This talk, and the biography from which it comes, is a story about sources:…

Mar

18

Lecture

James Mulholland from North Carolina State University

Location:

TBD

March 18, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

More information to come!This talk is part of The Global Eighteenth Century Speaker Series co-sponsored by the Gipson Institute and the Global Studies Program.