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In this conversation, Andrea Achi and Bryan Keene discuss race in a global Middle Ages. Calling on their experiences as researchers, educators, and curators, they will share the opportunities and challenges inherent in understanding and explaining how artists visualized peoples and communities in contact in the medieval world, both in their own context as well as for contemporary audiences.

"Disrupting Art History: Critical Indigenous Perspectives in Colonial California and Mexico" Apr 28, 2023 Center for Renaissance Studies (CRS) Newberry Library This conversation between Professors Yve Chavez (University of Oklahoma) and Dominique Polanco (Virginia Tech) considers how to bring critical Indigenous studies, premodern critical race studies, and colonial studies to art history. This...

May 12, 2022 Center for Renaissance Studies (CRS) Newberry Library In this conversation, Dr. Philip Deloria (Harvard University) and Dr. Tarren Andrews (Yale University) discuss the origins and development of the state and the individual, especially in relation to Indigenous contact, conquest, trade, and diplomacy. This program is a part of CRS's Race in Dialogue, a series of virtual conversati...

"A Career in Critical Race Studies," with Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University) and Noémie Ndiaye (University of Chicago) www.newberry.org/03252022-career-critical-race-studies-ayanna-thompson In this conversation, professors Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University) and Noémie Ndiaye (University of Chicago) discuss Thompson’s career exploring the historical development and impact of race...

"Race in the Museum: Representing the Diversity of the Early Modern World" Sponsored by the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library Featuring Stephanie Schrader (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles) and Heather Hughes (Davis Museum, Wellesley College) Friday, January 14, 2022 #CRSRaceinDialogue This session features curators Stephanie Schrader (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles) and Heat...

Virtual Collection Presentation: 2022 Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library #NLGrad22 Katherine Knowles, a graduate student at Michigan State University, introduces Newberry Library item Baskes G153 .W3 Stratford-upon-Avon (1923), an early 20th-century travel guide to Shakespeare's birthplace, showing the commercial value of "Bardolotry" the idolizat...

Virtual Collection Presentation: 2022 Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library #NLGrad22 Iraboty Kazi, a graduate student at the University of Western Ontario, introduces a highly annotated copy of Dante's _Divine Comedy_ from 1493, held at the Newberry Library in Chicago (folio Inc. 4996), that is filled with handwritten commentary in the margins and d...

Virtual Collection Presentation: 2022 Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library #NLGrad22 Emily Sharrett, a graduate student at Loyola University Chicago, introduces the Newberry Library second edition of George Sandys' 1615 _Relation of a Journey_ (Case folio G 29 .7773), an influential travel narrative that shaped European ideas about race and "foreign...

Virtual Collection Presentation: 2022 Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library #NLGrad22 Melani Shahin, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, introduces the Newberry Library copy of Athanasius Kircher's _Musurgia Universalis_ (1650, Case folio V 5 .466), one of the most influential treatises on music in the 17th century and a massive text fil...

Virtual Collection Presentation: 2022 Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library #NLGrad22 Maggie Heeschen, a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, introduces the Newberry Library's Ayer MS map 10, a portolan atlas created by Battista Agnese in the mid-16th century, which features a working magnetic compass inset in the binding. Heeschen examin...

Virtual Collection Presentation: 2022 Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library #NLGrad22 Elizabeth Shuffield, a graduate student at Oklahoma State University, introduces the Newberry Library's first edition of Edmund Burke's _A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful_ (1757, Newberry Case W 001 .128), a foundation...

Sarah Kernan (Scholar in Residence, Newberry Library) introduces D. Quélus's Histoire naturelle du cacao, et du sucre, divisée en deux traités (1719), a small book proclaiming the natural qualities and many health benefits of chocolate and sugar to early modern European readers.

Sarah Kernan (Scholar in Residence, Newberry Library) introduces the Nieuwe reizen naar de Franse eilanden van America (1725) work of French missionary, technology enthusiast, and slaveowner Jean Baptiste Labat, which describes, among other things, the technological developments used on sugar plantations in the 18th-century Caribbean.

Sarah Kernan (Scholar in Residence, Newberry Library) presents The American Physitian, a 1672 book by botanist (and possible pirate?) William Hughes, which introduced English audiences to the characteristics and uses of "exotic" plants from the Americas, including the potato, the watermelon, and chocolate.

An English View of Indigenous Foodways

Food and Food Production in Diderot's Encyclopédie

Documents from Colonial Mexico in the Ayer Indigenous Studies Collection - Roundtable 2: Legend

Session 3: Depth

Elemental Forces, Session 1: Risk

Elemental Forces Symposium Keynote Address: Christine Göttler

Elemental Forces, Session 2: Collection Presentation

Elemental Forces, Session 3: Depth

Elemental Forces, Session 4: Shape

Elemental Forces, Session 5: Generation

Elemental Forces: Closing Remarks

Documents from Colonial Mexico in the Ayer Indigenous Studies Collection - Keynote Roundtable

Documents from Colonial Mexico in the Ayer Indigenous Studies Collection - Roundtable 1: Space

Documents from Colonial Mexico in the Ayer Indigenous Studies Collection, Roundtable 3: Word

Race in Dialogue: Scott Manning Stevens and Blaire Topash-Caldwell