Dr. Lucas Haasis
Programme:
13 November, 3 pm: Nick Radburn (Lancaster University): Traders in Men. Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
20 November, 7pm: Sebouh D. Aslanian (University of California) and Sona Tajiryan (Gemological Institute of America, PhD, UCLA): The Santa Catharina as a Vessel of Indian Ocean history: Some Thoughts on the Uses of the Prize Papers for a Global Microhistory
This event is organized in cooperation with the British Library, UK. Co-Hosts for the event: Kurosh Meshkat and Sâqib Bâburî
27 November, 3 pm: Sheryllynne Haggerty(Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation): Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756
4 December, 3 pm: Guillaume Calafat (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne): Rashōmon in the Mediterranean: prize and mutiny at the beginning of the 18th century
18 December, 3 pm: Arjen Buikstra (Independent Researcher, Zuidland, Netherlands): Prize Papers from Mars
15 January, 3 pm: Hilde Neus (Universiteit van Suriname): Playing in White or Black. Performing Games in 18th Century Suriname
22 January, 3 pm: Annabelle Lafuente (Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour UPPA): The CORBAN project: Letters between the Basque Country, its surroundings and the colonies during the wars of the 18th century
29 January, 3 pm: Marion Huibrechts (University of Leuven): How the port of Ostend in the neutral Austrian Netherlands experienced a “Golden Age” during the American Revolution (1775-1784). Evidence from the Prize Papers
12 February, 3 pm: Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt (Prize Papers Project, University of Oldenburg): Sailors and the things: Material culture of ship life in the eighteenth century
19 February, 3 pm: Amanda Bevan (Prize Papers Project, National Archives, UK) and Lucas Haasis (Prize Papers Project, University of Oldenburg): Sources from the American War of Independence
26 February, 3 pm: Margaret Schotte (York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Sailing with the Prince de Conti: Recovering individual stories in the Prize Papers