Booking is available to attend two keynote lectures taking place as part of MMoR’s ‘Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Britain and Barbados’ workshop. Thursday’s keynote 'Seeing Racial Patriarchy: The Empire comes home in late Stuart England' is being given by Prof Susan D. Amussen.

The lecture will take place in the History Open Space on the 8th floor of the Strand Building, Strand Campus between 17:00 - 18:30, and will be followed by a drinks reception.

See the Tickettailor page here to book your free ticket. You can also book a ticket for Wednesday’s keynote with Jenny Shaw through this same link.

Speaker Bio

Prof. Susan D. Amussen received her Ph.D. from Brown University before the internet existed. She has taught at Connecticut College and at the Union Institute and University. She is currently distinguished professor of History and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Program at UC Merced. She is the author of An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England (1988); Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English society, 1640-1700 (2007); and Gender, Culture, and Politics in England, 1560-1640 (2017). She is co-editor of the forthcoming (2025) volume of the New Cambridge History of Britain (volume III, 1500-1750). She served as President of the Northeast Conference on British Studies (1997-99) and the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (2018-20). She served as Program Chair for NACBS from 2012-14; and on the Judith Walkowitz Prize committee from 2018-21.