PGR Lightning Talks - 8th June

The final seminar of the semester will be a series of lightning talks from PGRs working on race, racialisation, and race-making. Join us on Monday 8th June to hear about new research.

Sign up to attend here: https://buytickets.at/centreforearlymodernstudies/2022021

Paper Titles and Speakers

‘The Racialised Boy Merlin in Early Modern England’, Yuqi ‘Anna’ Jiang (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)

‘Black Witches: Egyptian Magic against the Trope of the Scholarly Male Wizard’, Vanessa Rodrigues Barcelos (University of Miami)

‘Slave code legislation: Colonial fears of insurrection and controlling knowledge circulation amongst enslaved communities in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Cuba’, Amy Cottrill (University of Leeds)

Image Citation: Luyken, Jan. In het Poolse dorp Perzyn vinden 23 mensen de dood door een blikseminslag tijdens een doopmaal. Print, 1676. Rijksmuseum.