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Nave Visiting Scholar Lecture

Sailors as Region-Makers: Seafaring and the configuration of a transimperial greater Caribbean

Event Details

Date
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Time
12 p.m.
Location
Description
Presented by Nave Visiting Scholar Ernesto Bassi, Assistant Professor of History, Cornell University. Ernesto will examine the role of sailors in the creation of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean and the way in which other, less mobile, subjects used this geographical framework to interpret the present they inhabited and to envision paths toward the future.
Cost
Free

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