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SUMMARY:Fall 2026 Lefler Lecture: Dr. Rashauna Johnson
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LOCATION:Leighton Hall 305
DESCRIPTION:Rashauna Johnson is a historian of the 19th-century African di
 aspora\, with an emphasis on slavery and emancipation in the US South and 
 Atlantic World. She is especially interested in the limits and possibiliti
 es of archival histories of enslaved and freed people and the worlds in wh
 ich they labored and lived. Johnson teaches courses on race\, slavery\, an
 d nation\; methodologies of slavery studies\; and the 19th-century US.\n\n
 Johnson is the author of <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/sl
 averys-metropolis/40469AB30465025FFBE1C4E959A55083" target="_blank" rel="n
 oopener"><em>Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during th
 e Age of Revolutions</em></a> (Cambridge UP\, 2016\; paperback 2018)\, wh
 ich was awarded the 2016 Williams Prize for the best book in Louisiana his
 tory and the 2018 H. L. Mitchell Award by the Southern Historical Associat
 ion for the best book on the southern working class. <em>Slavery's Metrop
 olis </em>was also named a finalist for the 2016 Berkshire Conference of 
 Women's Historians Book Prize\, honorable mention for the Urban History As
 sociation's Kenneth Jackson Award\, and a finalist for the 2017 Frederick 
 Douglass Book Prize. Her second book\, <a href="https://www.cambridge.or
 g/us/universitypress/subjects/history/african-american-histor/sweet-home-f
 eliciana-family-slavery-and-hauntings-history?format=HB&amp\;isbn=97810096
 68323"><em>Sweet Home Feliciana: Family\, Slavery\, and the Hauntings of H
 istory</em></a> (Cambridge University Press\, 2026)\, uses her grandmothe
 r’s birthplace in rural Louisiana as a prism to illuminate foundational\
 , if fraught\, aspects of US history including colonialism\, slavery\, war
 \, citizenship and unfinished freedom. That project has been supported by
  the Hutchins Center for African &amp\; African American Research at Harva
 rd University\, the Mellon Scholars Post-Doctoral Fellowship in African A
 merican History at the Library Company of Philadelphia\, and The Gilder Le
 hrman Institute of American History. She is a co-editor of the <em>Cambr
 idge History of the African Diaspora\, Volume Two: Slave Trades\, Dispersa
 ls\, and Processes of Commodification </em>(forthcoming 2027).\n\nView th
 is event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/utS
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SUMMARY:Book Celebration: Jessica Keating\, Impossible Nature – The Worl
 ds of Giuseppe Arcimboldo
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DESCRIPTION:A gathering to celebrate the publication of Professor Jessica 
 Keating's new book: <em>Impossible Nature. The World of Giuseppe Arcimbol
 do</em> (University of Chicago Press\, 2026).\n\nMore information coming s
 oon.\n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carl
 eton.edu/_c/ut71
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Patricia Morton
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LOCATION:Boliou 104
DESCRIPTION:<em>This talk is part of the Edwin L. Weisl Jr. Lecture Series
  sponsored by the Robert Lehman Foundation</em>\n\nPatricia A. Morton\, ar
 chitectural historian and activist\, is Associate Professor in the Media a
 nd Cultural Studies Department at the University of California\, Riverside
 .\n\nShe is author of <em>Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representa
 tion at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris </em>(MIT Pre
 ss). Her current project\, <em>Paying for the Public Lif</em>e\, focuses 
 on work by architect Charles W. Moore and changes to the public realm in t
 he 1960s.\n\nMorton is a former President of the Society of Architectural 
 Historians and Chair of the UC Riverside Faculty Association. She is a me
 mber of the L.A. Tenants Union.\n\nView this event on the Carleton College
  website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/ut7c
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