Apes, Slaves, Global Markets: The Boundaries of Humanity in Enlightenment Debates

Event time: 
Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Whitney Humanities Center (WALL53), 208 See map
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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.

Silvia Sebastiani, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University