Archives, Ports, Museums: A Talk with Lisa Lowe. March 1, 2017 at 4pm
The Society, Politics & Culture Workshop in Sociology and the Department of English at Boston University are pleased to present:
Archives, Ports, Museums: A Talk with Lisa Lowe
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 4:00pm
CAS Room 200
Lisa Lowe is a distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Center for Humanities at Tufts University. Her talk will discuss interdisciplinary methods for consulting and interpreting archival documents and material culture in the recovery of transhemispheric links between Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Her most recent book is The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke University Press, 2015) which examines the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism across and through Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.