October 22, 2020

CMS Digital Talk: Hagith Sivan (History, University of Kansas )

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Our point of departure is a vignette from Midrash Lamentations Rabbah featuring repeated confrontations between the biblical patriarchs and God over salvation and restoration. Through this...

October 23, 2020

CEMH Digital Talk: Andrew Odlyzko (Mathematics, University of Minnesota)

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The South Sea Bubble of 1720 was a gigantic investment mania in Britain. It occurred in a post-truth environment of misinformation and disinformation, and featured a real plague. The...

October 27, 2020

The Impact of the Two Pandemics: COVID and Structural Racism

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Join us for the second in a three-part series of conversations between community elder and educator Katie Sample and great minds leading the way with excellence in education for Black...

October 30, 2020

CEMH Digital Talk: Meredith Martin, Nina Dubin, and Madeleine Viljoen

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This talk will explore The New York Public Library’s upcoming exhibition Fortune and Folly in 1720 (Spring 2021) and its accompanying publication Meltdown! Picturing the World’s First...

November 6, 2020

CEMH Digital Talk: Junko Takeda (History, Syracuse University)

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The last major bubonic plague outbreak in western Europe, the Great Plague of 1720 ravaged the French Mediterranean city of Marseille and surrounding provinces for a period of three years...

November 12, 2020

CMS Digital Talk: Kristina Sessa (History, The Ohio State University)

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The Justininiac Plague (541 to ca. 750 CE), a recurring pandemic ofYersinia pestis infection that impacted communities across the Mediterranean reaching as far north as Britain, has played...

November 13, 2020

CEMH Digital Talk: Arnaud Orain (European Studies Institute of the University Paris)

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In 1720 during the plague of Marseille and during the climax and fall of John Law's System, private commerce, self-interest and competition mechanisms were under attack. From France to the...

November 17, 2020

Community Lecture Series: "Joseph Süss Oppenheimer (“Jew Süss”): The Rise and...

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This lecture will discuss the legal case against Oppenheimer as well as one especially important Jewish reaction to his rise, trial, and fall.

November 17, 2020

Moving Forward: A conversation with Black educators about the future for Black...

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Join us for the closing to a three-part series of conversations between community elder and educator Katie Sample and great minds leading the way with excellence in education for Black...

November 20, 2020

CEMH Digital Talk: Charly Coleman (History, Columbia University)

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This lecture traces the surprising influence of sacramental theology on the reception of John Law’s System. Allusions to the mysteries of transubstantiation and transmutation abounded in...

December 4, 2020

CEMH Digital Talk: Margaret DeLacy (Independent Scholar)

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In the early eighteenth century, life was precarious. The closing years of the Little Ice Age brought unpredictable famines. Dynasties failed and empires were transformed. Global trade and...

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