Thursday, April 10
Doris Garraway, Associate Professor of French, Northwestern University
“Writing Abolitionism from the Abolitionist State of Haiti: Transnationalism, Sentiment, and Agency in the Baron de Vastey’s Colonial System Unveiled (1814)”
Thursday, April 17
Zach Samalin, PhD, English, CUNY Graduate Center
“Plumbing the Depths, Scouring the Surface: Henry Mayhew’s Scavenger Hermeneutics”
Thursday, April 24
Chris Taylor, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago
“The Political Economy of Neglect”
Thursday, May 8
Tristan Schweiger, PhD Student, Department of English, University of Chicago
“Planters and nabobs: Colonial agents and the homecoming of capital in Grainger and Foote”
Thursday May 29
Aidan Beaty, PhD student, Department of History, University of Chicago
“Organised Manhood: Bodily Regeneration in Irish Nationalism”