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November 30, 2020
RECAP: “Anglican Evangelism and the Maintenance of Slavery in the 18th-Century Atlantic World,” Colloquium w/ MU’s Daive Dunkley
Drawn from a larger project examining the Anglican Church’s involvement in British slave trafficking in the Americas, MU Associate Professor of Black Studies Daive Dunkley’s November 20th talk for the Fall 2020 Kinder Institute Zoom Colloquium Series focused on a number of evangelical actors who history often—and problematically—miscasts as having some abolitionist leanings. Specifically, Prof. […]
November 19, 2020
RECAP: “Who’s Responsible for Constitutional Rights?” Zoom Colloquium w/ Notre Dame’s Christina Bambrick
In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in DeShaney v. Winnebago County that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States does not create an obligation on behalf of the state to prevent child abuse when (a) the child is in the custody of a parent and (b) the state did not create or […]
November 9, 2020
RECAP: “Republics of the New World,” Zoom Colloquium with Dr. Hilda Sabato
What follows is a brief synopsis of Dr. Sabato’s opening remarks for her October 23 talk, during which she provided an overview of her recent Princeton University Press monograph, Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. To hear the extended Q&A that followed, click here. Though a spate of […]
November 3, 2020
RECAP: “Unsettling Genealogies of Haitian Revolutionary History,” Zoom Colloquium w/ UVA’s Marlene Daut
It was through the ascendance of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s 1995 Silencing the Past that a long line of Haitian historians came to have an immeasurable impact on scholarship in the present day. As UVA Professor of History and African Diaspora Studies Marlene Daut explained, though, this influence comes with a sizable asterisk. The vast majority of […]
November 2, 2020
RECAP: “Moderation in America,” Zoom Colloquium with Indiana University Prof. Aurelian Craiutu
The specter of Barry Goldwater hangs over the recent history of moderation. “Extremism in defense of liberty,” he proclaimed in his presidential nomination acceptance speech at the 1964 Republican National Convention, “is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” As Indiana University Professor of Political Science Aurelian Craiutu noted in introducing his […]
October 19, 2020
RECAP: “Policing & Criminal Justice Reform,” A Conversation with Rafael Mangual, Prof. S. David Mitchell, and Prof. Jen Selin
Numbers vs. historical narrative took center stage in the opening remarks for the October 2nd “Policing & Criminal Justice Reform” panel delivered by Manhattan Institute Deputy Director of Legal Policy Rafael Mangual and University of Missouri Ruth L. Hulston Professor of Law S. David Mitchell. On the empirical side, when asked about the most important […]