Dr. Mark Dawson (Australian National University, Canberra) will speak on the history of race in the British Atlantic world. His lecture, “’Of antient rase’: Caste and Bodily Prejudice in Early Modern England” will be presented via Zoom on Wednesday, March 9 at 3:30pm. Please register here: https://illinois.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqdeiurj0sHdBsykAJwZKGfnUHYhwoKCqq
Mark Dawson has taught at the ANU since 2005. In 2019 he published Bodies Complexioned: Human Variation and Racism in Early Modern English Culture, c. 1600-1750 (Manchester University Press), a rich and original study of the role of humoralism in the development of early modern English racial thought.
