Miller Lecture by John McNeill
Miller Lecture by John McNeill
On September 30th from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Professor John McNeill (Georgetown) will be delivering the Distinguished Miller Lecture (KEY0106). His talk is titled: Yellow Fever, Malaria, and the Spanish Empire in the Americas, 1650-1830.” Introductions by Professor David Sartorius.
There will also be a lunch event associated with this talk, noon to 1:30 p.m., Francis Scott Key, Room 2120 (Merrill Room). Lunch will be provided. If you plan on attending, please send an rsvp to millercenter@umd.edu so that we may estimate head-count. Thanks!
This event kicks off the Fall 2013 series of events.
H-Net Roundtable Discussion of the book.
Youtube link to a 3-minute interview with John McNeill.
Journal of World History review of the book by Molly Warsh.
Environmental History review of the book by James Webb.
Fall 2013 Miller Center Events
-September 30th, noon lunch talk and 4 pm Miller Lecture, John McNeill, ""The Disease Defense: Yellow Fever, Malaria, and the Spanish Empire in the Americas, 1650-1830."
-October 10th, Louis Galambos, noon lunch talk, "The Creative Society--Is the Price Still Right?"
-October 21st, noon lunch talk and 4 pm workshop, Sanjay Subrahamanyam, "Early Modern Circulation and the Question of 'Patriotism" between India and Central Asia"
-November 5th, Alon Confino, noon lunch talk and 6 pm seminar, ""A World Without Jews The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide"
-November 19th, Barry Gilder, noon lunch talk, Title TBA
-December 5th, Anthony Pagden, noon lunch talk and 4 pm talk, "'Imperium': Defining Empire Rome to Washington"