Mellon Forum // Smallpox and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World: A Digital History
School of ArchitectureMellon Forum on the Urban Environment Spring 2023 || SPATIAL STORYTELLING Smallpox and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World: A Digital History is a digital history project consisting of a searchable database, an embedded timelapse map, and historical vignettes about enslaved people who survived smallpox outbreaks in the Atlantic World. It is based on Mitchell's […]
Historias para lo que viene: Podcasting for Social Justice in Colombia
216 Aaron Burr HallThe participation of history in transitional justice processes has tended to be one of setting the record straight by providing objective evidence about past violent events. As such, it is tied to conventional notions of history as linear, progressive, and centered in nation-states. This presentation showcases Historias para lo que viene, a public history project […]
2022-23 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – “ The Harvest Indeed is Great, but the Labourers are Few”: Strangers in the Medieval Countryside
010 East Pyne PrincetonSeasonal labor brought considerable numbers of workers long distances to villages and estates in the Middle Ages. These ‘strangers’ faced many difficulties in their interactions with the local population. The lecture addresses several of these difficulties and how elites, villagers, and migrant laborers coped with them. William Chester Jordan is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History. […]
Edward Said Memorial Lecture: On “Perfect Victims” and the Politics of Appeal
10 McCoshPalestinians dead and alive have been increasingly visible in Anglophone media—but not everyone can get the mic. For them to make noise, dead Palestinians need to have been ethnocentrically “exceptional” or have had to endure an exceptionally violent death. And those who are alive need to fit the “perfect victim” prerequisite: docile, defanged, and preferably […]
