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SUMMARY:Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the 
 early modern South Atlantic - Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–M
 adison)
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CONTACT:Lewis Bremner
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines how the epistemic and material practices of
  slave trading communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century South 
 Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds were fundamentally related to the emerge
 nce of novel ideas about quantifiable human bodies and corporeal facticity
 . The violent mathematics of early modern slave trading societies reified 
 and institutionalized body quantification and population/group thinking in
  relation to labor\, health\, and disease in new ways. By examining the br
 utal history of corporeal quantification in slave trading societies alongs
 ide African diasporic histories of knowledge-making about bodies and medic
 ine\, this lecture underscores the fundamental continuity that exists betw
 een the enslavement of millions of Africans and the history of modern idea
 s about corporeality.
LOCATION:Large Lecture Theatre\, Department of Plant Sciences\, Downing Si
 te
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