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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Public servants are not ordinary employees. Their relationship to the modern state is special. According to prevailing opinion, this special relation ...

Extreme weather events, changing precipitation, and sea-level rise have made thosecliving in the global north more mindful of the vulnerability of lives and ...

Archaeological views onto the later pre-Columbian past of southern Central America –roughly defined as including Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, but ...

In the late seventeenth century, Virginia colonist Edmund Scarburgh and his mistress Ann Toft owned and sold many Native laborers as indentured servants and ...