Andrew Curran, "Anthropology, Anatomy, and the Birth of Race, c. 1770"


 European Languages and Studies     Feb 19 2014 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Humanities Gateway 1010

Andrew Curran is Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of French at Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Anatomy of Black: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment (Johns Hopkins UP, 2002). This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of European Languages and Studies and the UCI Humanities Collective.