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Is it finally time to get back to some of the research and writing you have had to put aside in these past few chaotic years, #VastEarlyAmerica? Let us help inspire you and keep you on track with a round of Summer 2023 OI Coffeehouses. We are accepting applications to host tables until JUNE 1, […]
Join Georgian Papers Programme scholar Angel-Luke O’Donnell for an online version of the popular GPP Coffee Break series at King’s College London. Join us on March 4, 2022, at 5:00 pm GST (noon ET) for a presentation by award-winning fashion historian, curator, and journalist Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell titled "'High Heads': Hair, Politics, and Power at the Georgian […]
OI Colloquium with Meghan Roberts and Laurie Wood In 1767, the free woman of color Charlotte Dugée absconded from the Patris botanical expedition, for which she was a French state-appointed specimen illustrator, into the forests of Guyane, never to be heard from again. Unlike typical Enlightenment scientific practitioners – overwhelmingly white, male, Europeans – Dugée […]
OI Colloquium with Nicole Aljoe One of the benefits of digital literary analysis is the possibility of employing machine learning to offer new and compelling close readings of archival texts. Consequently, this talk will explore the politics of and opportunities that close digital textual analyses, like topic modeling and Stylometry, offers to our understanding of […]
OI Colloquium with Andrea Guerrero-Mosquera This paper approaches the image of children with piebaldism in New Spain concerning the issue of skin color, and the conception of the blackness of the period. Guerrero-Mosquera also will present visual representations and descriptions about the Afro-descendants, and will analyze the intersections on how these images circulated and impacted […]
Join us for the 13th annual Río de la Plata Workshop. Please REGISTER by clicking on the link. If you do not have an account on the OI Events site you will be asked to create one. Please make sure to register for the event after you create the account -- creating an account does […]
How do we incorporate scholarship on early America, both old and new, into our teaching–whether that teaching happens in a K-12 classroom, on a university campus, or at a museum? In this every-other-monthly reading group, teachers come together to think collaboratively about how to engage with audiences from a broad spectrum and in a wide […]
Join Georgian Papers Programme scholar Angel-Luke O’Donnell for an online version of the popular GPP Coffee Break series at King’s College London. Join us on May 12, 2022, at 3:00 pm BST (10:00 am ET) for a presentation by Georgian Papers Programme fellow Natalee Garrett (University of St. Andrews) titled "Queen Charlotte: Family, Duty, Scandal." […]
Join Georgian Papers Programme scholar Angel-Luke O’Donnell for an online version of the popular GPP Coffee Break series at King’s College London. Join us on May 24, 2022, at 3:00 pm BST (10:00 am ET) for a presentation by Georgian Papers Programme Fellow Mary-Jannet Leith (University of Southampton) titled "'Then I play'd upon the Harpsichord': […]