Upcoming Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lectures
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Fabiane Popinigis
Online via Zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
What was the role of the intersections of race, class/ethnicity and gender in different lawsuits initiated by women who worked in retail stores against ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Claudia Jarzebowski
Festsaal, University ...
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
What did a life under the circumstances of enslavement and strong asymmetrical dependency do to children? What were the effects and how are they to be traced ...
Past Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lectures
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Thomas Duve
Online via Zoom or ...
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
The lecture will discuss the still emerging field of global legal history and provides an approach to legal history that draws on the history of knowledge and ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Alexander Keese
Online via Zoom or ...
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
European colonialism in sub-Saharan Africa relied (at least before the end of the Second World War) upon mechanisms of labour exploitation through forced ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Johannes Rainer
Via Zoom or Juridicum, ...
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
The major question will be how enfranchised slaves, the so called freedmen, could acquire the Roman citizenship. In order to understand the dynamics and ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by João Fragoso & Thiago Krause
Online via Zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
In the next Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture on October 24, João Fragoso and Thiago Krause will do a comparative analysis of the two largest slaving ports in ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
Hybrid event
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
This talk derives from Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy’s award-winning book, Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean (University of Illinois ...
Cancelled: Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Stefan Talmon
Online via Zoom
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
We regret to say that this lecture was cancelled. It will be re-scheduled in due course. Sorry for any inconvenience!
The lecture traces public international ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Online via zoom
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Everyone is welcome to join this public lecture online via zoom!
The abstract is due any time soon.
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Kristalyn Shefveland
Online via zoom
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
In the late seventeenth century, Virginia colonist Edmund Scarburgh and his mistress Ann Toft owned and sold many Native laborers as indentured servants and ...
Joseph C. Miller Lecture by Alexander Geurds
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Archaeological views onto the later pre-Columbian past of southern Central America –roughly defined as including Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, but ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Mark Hauser
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Extreme weather events, changing precipitation, and sea-level rise have made thosecliving in the global north more mindful of the vulnerability of lives and ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Thomas Pierson
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:15 PM
Public servants are not ordinary employees. Their relationship to the modern state is special. According to prevailing opinion, this special relation ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture Maren Niehoff
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
This lecture explores to what extent one can discern a concept of personal freedom as a basic right in the first century CE. Philo's tractate "On the Freedom ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Finnbar Barry Flood
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
One of the most celebrated extant medieval Arabic manuscripts is an illustrated copy of the Maqāmāt (Assemblies) of Abu Muhmmad al-Qasim ibn ‘Ali al-Hariri ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Chouki el Hamel
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
This presentation explains how the archives created a wall of silence regarding issues of slavery and race. The archival silence created an intentional gap in ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Miles Ogborn
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
This lecture examines the ways in which Christianity came to define the debate over slavery and freedom – and the nature of the free black subject – in the ...
Joseph C. Miller Lecture by Toyin Falola
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
One of the hallmarks of research is to reflect and inquire into the characteristics of society and broaden the scope of its development. As a result, research ...
Joseph C. Miller Lecture by Hendrik Hartog
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
The talk will reflect about the relationships between criminal law & policing, on the one hand, & property law, on the other, focusing on the historical case ...
Joseph C. Miller Lecture by Adriana Chira
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, the island of Cuba's radical cradle, Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom and devised their own formative path to ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Rafael de Bivar Marquese
Online via Zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
The lecture investigates the history of coffee in the longue durée, from its first emergence in the commercial networks of the Ottoman Empire to the world ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Juan Lewis
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
In this lecture I will analyse whether Jesus of Nazareth, his family, and close friends and disciples were slave owners. Most scholars now agree that the ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Nabil Matar
Online via zoom
05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
The study of captivity in the early modern Mediterranean has largely relied on European and Ottoman sources. The Arabic archive furnishes further information ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Paul Lovejoy
Online via Zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
The lecture will discuss how the construction of open-source relational databases has altered the scholarly study of slavery. Once it was thought that there ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Christine Walker
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
In this talk, Christine Walker discusses her book, Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire. Jamaica Ladies is the ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Peter Gemeinhardt
Hybrid event: online via ...
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
What has education to do with dependency? In a famous letter, Jerome (d. 419) narrates that, in a dream vision, he was called before Christ and accused of ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Johannes Auenmüller
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
The discourse on social relationships in the context of status, prestige and belonging is a key aspect of Pharaonic elite culture. Social relations and ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Magnus Ressel
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Giving the order to send out European ships to transport Africans to the Americas was a rather discreet operation that was strongly connected to the perception ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Tommaso Beggio
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
The so-called servi poenae were slaves subjugated to their legal status as a consequence of a sentence that deprived convicts of their freedom and, at times, ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Caroline Wallis
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
The aim of this talk is to reflect on the consequences of fluctuating levels of asymmetrical dependencies on the symbolic productions of the political and ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Andrew Wells
Online via zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Animals played a central role in the history of transatlantic slavery that has only recently attracted scholarly interest. Of vital importance to plantation ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Karen Woods Weierman
Online via Zoom
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Karen Woods Weierman’s recent book, The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: Free Soil in Antislavery Boston, restores the complicated history of antislavery Boston’s ...