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PWRG Meeting: Defining Blackness: Early Debates about Skin Color at Théophraste Renaudot's Bureau d'adresse et de recontre (1640)

Event Type

Meeting

Sponsor

Department of History; European Union Center

Location

Please contact Craig Koslofsky at koslof@illinois.edu in advance.

Date

Mar 19, 2024 7:00 pm

E-Mail

koslof@illinois.edu

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European Union Center Events

The next meeting of the Premodern World Reading Group is scheduled for Tuesday, March 19 with Katherine Dauge-Roth (Francophone Studies, Bowdoin College; https://bowdoin.academia.edu/KatherineDaugeRoth/Articles). The group will discuss her draft article on “Defining Blackness: Early Debates about Skin Color at Théophraste Renaudot’s Bureau d’adresse et de rencontre (1640).” The meeting will be at 7pm. For more information, to RSVP, and to receive a copy of the paper, please contact Craig Koslofsky at koslof@illinois.edu in advance.

This event is cosponsored by the Department of History; and by the European Union Center though support from the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI NRC Program.

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