This event takes place at the Institute of Historical Research and is sponsored by MMoR
Location: Institute of Historical Research and online
Speaker: Pablo Gómez (University of Wisconson Madison)
This talk examines how early Atlantic slave trading communities made human corporeality articulable with a new set of ideas about facts and quantification that emerged in the early modern era. They did so to protect their financial interests rather than caring for enslaved people. The ruthlessness inherent in these practices became ingrained in a corporeal mathematics diffused through the vast political, financial, logistical, and intellectual networks of the world of slave trading.
Pablo Gómez is Professor of History and the History of Medicine at the University of Wisconson-Madison. He is the author of the Experiential Caribbean (2019) winner of the Welch Medal and the Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize, and co-editor of The Gray Zones of Medicine (2021), which explores health practices in Latin America from the 16th to the 21st century.