Summer Scholars 2022 events

Join us for talks

A season of free lunchtime talks exploring the research being conducted into the Library’s Americas collection by Eccles Centre Fellows and Award winners

Series events

Notice from 1777 advertising tea, coffee and chocolate for 550 guineas
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Summer Scholars: Chocolate as Medicine / A Bibliophilic Memoir

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Humpback whale
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Summer Scholars: Journeys – poetic, physical and metaphorical

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Pattern
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Summer Scholars: North American Great Lakes / Decolonising the Archive

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Map of Jamaica
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Summer Scholars: News from the Caribbean

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Barbados Mercury
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Summer Scholars: Erasure Poetry / The Queen's Silence

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Haile Selassie and Acee Blue Eagle; courtesy of the Oklahoma State University Archives
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Summer Scholars: Indigenous and Imperial Encounters

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New York City street scene from the George Grantham Bain collection at the Library of Congress.
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Summer Scholars: Sonic NYC and Poetic Mapping

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Black and white image of a woman standing in front of huts
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Summer Scholars: Revolutionary Mexico / Pacific Entanglements

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Black and white image of a woman sitting down
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Summer Scholars: Urban Elites / Making Changes in Washington DC and London

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Gal Costa – Brazilian Singer; Public domain / Arquivo Nacional Collection
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Summer Scholars: Latin Americans Exiles and Mormon Emigration

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Wood letterpress type by Michelle Cornelison
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Summer Scholars: Transforming the Book / US Fine Press Printing

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2013 Twin Cities Pride Parade, Minneapolis; Minnesota AIDS Project / HIV Stigma Stops Here / Twin Cities Pride Parade
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Summer Scholars: Writing the Amazon / HIV and COVID-19 Stigma

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