“The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality”
LACIS Lunchtime Lecture Series
Event Details
Date
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Time
Noon-1 p.m.
Location
Description
Presented by Dr. Pablo Gomez
This talk examines how early Iberian Atlantic slave trading communities made human corporeality articulable with a new set of ideas about finance, facts, objectivity, and measurable risk that emerged in the early modern era.
This talk examines how early Iberian Atlantic slave trading communities made human corporeality articulable with a new set of ideas about finance, facts, objectivity, and measurable risk that emerged in the early modern era.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-0616 or email skripp@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Tuesday, November 3, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.