What can microhistory reveal that Big History cannot? Drawing on studies of enslaved and free people in revolutionary and abolitionist France, Sue Peabody ...
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What is Black Event Theory (BET)? This opening lecture introduces BET from the ground up: its philosophical foundations, its departure from conventional ...
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How does the Devadasi tradition stay active despite being declared illegal in India? In his lecture, Indranil Acharya will explore the inescapable dependency ...
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Is it true that Global Value Chains (GVCs) 'boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty', as commonly claimed? In this upcoming lecture Benjamin ...
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What happens when the end of the slave trade doesn't lead to freedom, but to a new form of bondage? In our next lecture with Jake Subryan Richards, he will ...
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How did Black symbolism become central to European apothecary culture? This lecture with Temitope Fagunwa, argues that this imagery resulted from three ...
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How does statelessness turn people into ‘bare’ or even ‘subhuman’ life? This upcoming lecture with Nasir Uddin, argues that the shift from statelessness to ...
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Is manumission truly a transition to complete independence? While we usually view "slave" and "free" as absolute states, historical evidence of partial ...
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