How did issues of intimacy, like sexuality, pregnancy, coercion, and family, shaped enslaved women’s decisions to resist during slave rebellions in the ...
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How did late antique households influence wider social organization and the Roman state? They served as microcosms of society, shaping social hierarchies and ...
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How did marginalized groups in rigid societies find paths to economic and social mobility? In the Roman Empire, lower-class individuals navigated established ...
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What if enslaved and formerly enslaved literary workers played a crucial role in the composition of the Synoptic Gospels? This lecture challenges assumptions ...
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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 ...
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How did late Romans experience disasters and military conflicts? Many scholars argue that these events contributed to the Empire's decline. However, this ...
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What can contrasting approaches to animals tell us about human social organization? While early modern Europe was structured by nested hierarchies—dividing ...
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How did an alleged sodomy case in 1648 on an English East India Company ship shape social dynamics and attitudes towards homosexuality? Examining the events ...
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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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Gendered Dependence: Going beyond the usual concepts of dependency relationships located within a post-colonial state, this new research project examines in ...
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