Join us as the Humanities Research Institute launches its 2025–26 theme, “Story & Place,” with a two-day campus visit from renowned historians Catherine Hall (University College London) and Jennifer Morgan (New York University).
Hall, a leading historian of empire, is the author of Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024), which traces the links between 18th-century Jamaican plantations and emerging stories of race, human nature, and governance in Britain.
Morgan, a distinguished historian of women and enslavement, is the author of Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (2021), a study that centers the lives of enslaved African women in narratives of trade, race, and commodification.
Across a series of events, Professors Hall and Morgan will be in dialogue with one another and with our community, exploring how story makes place and how place shapes story, a central preoccupation of humanities research and practice.
Events
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 4:00 pm – A Conversation with Morgan and Hall
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Wednesday, Sept. 24, 12:00 pm – Graduate Student Brown Bag Discussion with Hall and Morgan
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Wednesday, Sept. 24, 7:30 pm – Public Lecture by Hall with Response by Morgan
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