Past Events

Oct

15

Lecture

Southeast Asia into the Eighteenth Century: The Lynchpin of Asia's Seaways with Professor Eric Tagliacozzo

Location:

STEPS 280

October 15, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Different parts of the world are said to have "entered modernity" – a tenuous phrase at best – at different times.  For Southeast Asia, there is an argument to be made that this transition was happening just as we move into the eighteenth century.  How and why was this…

Apr

11

Lecture

Edward Gibbon and Slavery: Decline and Fall and Rise with Linda Colley

Location:

STEPS 280

April 11, 2024, 4:30 - 6pm

Presented by the Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Africana Studies, Linda Colley, Ph.D., Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University. Between 1776, the year of the Declaration of Independence, and 1788, the year before the…

Mar

7

Lecture

Eighteenth-Century Catawba Women, Pottery-making, Identity, and Nation-building with Brooke Bauer

Location:

STEPS 280

March 7, 2024, 4:30 - 6pm

Presented by the Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Institute for Indigenous Studies, Brooke Bauer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Dr…

Dec

1

Lecture

The Empire's Pharmacy: The Real Protomedicato, Materia Medica, and A Collected Spanish Empire with Tim Betz

Location:

Maginnes Hall, Room 342

December 1, 2022, 12 - 1pm

Tim Betz, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History