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”