Calendar of Events

We’ve all been there. After weeks and weeks of digging into the archives, conducting interviews, and reading countless pages, you find yourself staring at a mountain of information, wondering: how can I possibly synthesize all of this into something not only understandable but engaging. That is the challenge we face at Throughline as well. In […]

Join us for a special screening of PBS’s “American Experience: Freedom Riders,” an inspirational 2010 documentary by veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson. The 1961 Freedom Rides are a focus of the current exhibition at Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library, “Nobody Turn Us Around: The Freedom Rides and Selma to Montgomery Marches– Selections from the John Doar Papers.” […]

In 1763, an engraving was published in Paris to advertise French colonization in Guyana. Depicting a wealthy land, rich in promises, and couples engaged in gallant conversations, the image promoted a peaceful colonization. It ephemerally reenacted a gallant aesthetic born in Louis XIV’s reign which contributed to frame the imaginary of French empire and colonies […]

Timothy P. Jackson is Bishop Mack B. and Rose Stokes Professor of Theological Ethics at The Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Professor Jackson has previously held teaching posts at Rhodes College, Yale University, Stanford University, and the University of Notre Dame. He has been a Visiting Fellow at The Center […]

This book talk will present and discuss the unique three volume collection "State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain", published by Cambridge University Press in 2013, 2019 and 2023. The collection is the result of a long-term research project coordinated by the editors of the three volumes, Miguel A. Centeno (Princeton University) and […]

The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. Join us as we celebrate and discuss a new volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series, which presents a reconstructed ancient performance text, four one-act indigenous African plays and five modern dramas from various regions of Africa and […]