Silvia Sebastiani (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University), “Apes, Slaves, Global Markets: The Boundaries of Humanity in Enlightenment Debates” (European Studies Council)

Event time: 

Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - 12:00pm

Location: 

Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208 See map

53 Wall Street

New Haven, CT

Event description: 

Silvia Sebastiani is currently developing a project on the boundaries of humanity. Her research focuses on entangled networks of animals, slaves, and material goods in the eighteenth century, exploring how they activated scientific, philosophical, political, and legal debates that reframed Enlightenment sciences of humanity.

 

 

Admission: 

Free

Open to: 

General Public

Contact: 

European Studies Council

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