*Harvard University's Department of History and the David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies present the *
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*2007 John H. Parry Memorial Lecture*
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*/Race Relations in the Atlantic World: 1500 -- 1800 /*
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*//**Francisco Bethencourt, Charles Boxer Professor of History at King's
College, London*
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**Introduction by Professor Kenneth Maxwell, Harvard University
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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.