[Brazil@Harvard] Parry Memorial Lecture: Race Relations in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800

*Harvard University's Department of History and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies present the * ** *2007 John H. Parry Memorial Lecture* ** */Race Relations in the Atlantic World: 1500 -- 1800 /* *//* *//**Francisco Bethencourt, Charles Boxer Professor of History at King's College, London* ** **Introduction by Professor Kenneth Maxwell, Harvard University * Monday, April 2 5:00 PM * Harvard University CGIS South building, Tsai Auditorium 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/ Reception to follow This lecture explores the impact of the increasing knowledge of African and American peoples on Europe, and the ways perceptions of humankind were reshaped by new colonial societies. Professor Bethencourt is the former director of both the National Library of Portugal and the Gulbenkian Foundation Cultural Centre in Paris. He is currently working on the history of race relations and racism in the Atlantic world, 1500-1800.