EVENTS
“From Columbia to Colombia: A Cultural Appropriation of Liberty in the Age of Revolutions, 1775-1807,” October 31 Colloquium with University of Texas-Austin Prof. Lina del Castillo | 10/31/2025
Mapping “Columbian” and “Colombian” imaginaries onto one another, University of Texas Associate Professor of History and Latin American Studies Lina del Castillo’s talk will examine how the goddess Columbia’s inclusive armies that Phillis Wheatley Peters evokes in “His Excellency General Washington” re-appear, in appropriated form, in the multi-racial Colombian forces of liberation forged by Francisco […]
“Bridging the Divide”: November 5 Civil Dialogues Event at the KC Public Library | 11/05/2025
RSVP HERE As part of our ongoing collaboration with the Civil Dialogues initiative and the Kanas City Public Library, the Kinder Institute will travel west on Wednesday, November 5 for a panel discussion on “Bridging the Divide: Talking, Listening, and Finding Common Ground.” The event will be held in the Helzberg Auditorium at the KCPL […]
“Sociality as Activist Intervention: Exploring Constitutional Antislavery in the Lives of Anna Murray Douglass, Angelina Grimké, and Charlotte Forten,” November 14 Colloquium with University of Michigan’s Mariah Zeisberg | 11/14/2025
University of Michigan Associate Professor of Political Science Mariah Zeisberg’s colloquium series presentation will explore the lives and work of Anna Murray Douglass, Angelina Grimké, and Charlotte Forten to show how sociality, family-making, and household politics were used by all three as transformative forms of constitutional activism that advanced the goals of the 19th-century antislavery […]
“St. George Tucker and the Invention of the Written Constitution,” December 5 Colloquium with KICD Distinguished Visiting Research Professor Max M. Edling | 12/05/2025
Reviving a fall tradition from years past, King’s College London Professor Max Edling, in Columbia during 2025-26 as the Kinder Institute’s Distinguished Visiting Research Professor, will end the semester with a presentation of his research, traveling back to founding era Williamsburg to examine William & Mary Professor St. George Tucker’s central role in championing the […]