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Salvador and Rio de Janeiro were the two largest slaving ports of the Americas, but they followed very different trajectories. Therefore, a comparison can ...

In 2008, Joseph C. Miller explored the historical process of slaving, aiming to understand why people repeatedly engaged in this strategy throughout history. ...

How did Mary Astell question the apparent contradiction between the freedom of all men and the perceived enslavement of all women? This lecture reexamines ...

How did marginalized groups in rigid societies find paths to economic and social mobility? In the Roman Empire, lower-class individuals navigated established ...

What if enslaved and formerly enslaved literary workers played a crucial role in the composition of the Synoptic Gospels? This lecture challenges assumptions ...

How did racism come to be? Just as race is not a biological reality, racism is not inherent to human nature. It was invented and sustained through historical ...

The discourse on social relationships in the context of status, prestige and belonging is a key aspect of Pharaonic elite culture. Social relations and ...

What impact did the First Plague Pandemic have on mobilizations of military and civil labor? At our next JCMM Lecture, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, of the ...

How did Jainism rise and decline in Karnataka? Originating in East India in the sixth century BCE, Jainism reached Karnataka by the second century CE. By the ...

What are the connections between unfree labour and recent changes in Brazilian politics? Our first lecture of the year discusses why it is important to talk ...