Date

Scholar

Paper Title

Respondent

Location

September 20, 2024

Yiyun Huang (University of Tennessee, Knoxville):

"'Give up Tea by way of Healing': Medicinal Debates on Tea in Revolutionary America."

JP Fetherston

(UMD)

Berlin Room (TLF 2110)

University of Maryland
College Park, MD, 20742

November 1, 2024

Yesenia Barragan

(Rutgers University)

Freedom Dreams in South and Central America: Slavery, African American Migrations, and Abolitionism in the Hemispheric 1850s.”

Angelina Lincoln

(UMD)

East Conference Room

National Museum of American History
1300 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560

February 28, 2025

Natalie Zacek

(University of Manchester)

“Empire of the Senses: The Creole Sensorium in Georgian London.”

Chris Canty

(George Washington University)

328 Phillips Hall

George Washington University
801 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20052

May 2, 2025

Arrannè Rispoli

(University of California, Los Angeles)

“Can You Find Heaven in a Wildflower?: Criminality, Enslavement, and Redemption in Colonial New England.”

Chloe Kauffman

(UMD)

Hosted by the Fred W. Smith National Library for Study of George Washington

(3600 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, Mt. Vernon, VA 22121)