invites you to a lecture by
ANDREW CURRAN
Department of Romance Languages & Literatures,
Wesleyan University
“The Natural History of Slavery”
Friday, September 23rd,
2:30 - 4 p.m.,
112 Folwell Hall
A reception will follow in 317 Folwell Hall.
Andrew Curran is Professor of French and Dean of the Arts and Humanities at Wesleyan University. He has published widely on the philosopher Denis Diderot, scientific academy debates, and the representation of Africa. He is the author of Sublime Disorder: Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe (Voltaire Foundation: University of Oxford, 2001) and The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment (Johns Hopkins Press, 2011). Curran was elected a fellow in the history of medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine in 2010 and won the James L. Clifford prize for the best article in eighteenth-century studies in 2011.
Co-sponsored by TEMS (Theorizing Early Modern Studies)
