Race and the Early Modern

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The one-day hybrid conference “Race and the Early Modern” at King’s College London will feature new work by early career scholars.

Nicholas R. Jones (Yale University) Cervantine Blackness

Andrew Kettler (Kenyon College) The Miasmic Theft of Modernity: Sulfuric Aromata and Early Modern Empires

Ato Quirin Schweizer (University of Duisburg-Essen) Hearing Skin Color? Sound and the Issue of Race in Early Modern German Travel Writing on West Africa

Rodrigo Toromoreno (Universidad San Francisco de Quito) Beasts of Burden: A Colonial Sugar Mill and its Working Slaves

Hayley Negrin (University of Illinois) Cockacoeske’s Rebellion: Nathaniel Bacon and Indigenous Slavery and Sovereignty in Early Virginia

Miguel A Valerio (Washington University in St. Louis) Performing Blackness in Colonial Mexico City

Hassana Moosa (King’s College London) The Racialisation of Slavery on the Early Modern English Stage

Eli Cumings (University of Cambridge) The ‘Monstrous Races’ in the Early Modern Prodigy Tradition

Dessalegn Bizuneh Ayele (University of Gondar) The ‘Deserving’ Ferenj in Gondarine Ethiopia, 1632-1769

Mira Assaf Kafantaris (Butler University) Royal Courts and the Mobility of Queen Consorts

Arianna Ray (Northwestern University) Paper Thin Skin: Art, Anatomy, and Blackness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Printmaking

Ana Howie (University of Cambridge) Materialising Racialised Blacknesses in Early Modern Italy

Surekha Davies (Utrecht University) Costume Books and the Making of Race in Early Modern Europe

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 9:00-18:30 BST

Source: https://www.mmor.co.uk/events/race-and-the-early-modern-new-scholars-new-scholarship

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