Jean-Frédéric Schaub - The White Ethiopian Girl: Genealogy of the Western Aversion to Miscegenation
Wednesday 14 June (Week 8), 4:30pm
Rector's Drawing Room, Exeter College, Turl Street
Jean-Frédéric Schaub is Directeur d’Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. A world-leading historian of the early modern Iberian world, his research has mainly focused on the history of the early modern state and empire and histories of race. His many publications include the books Les juifs du roi d’Espagne: Oran, 1507-1669 (Le Seuil, 1999), Le Portugal au temps du comte-duc d’Olivares (1621-1640): Le conflit de jurisdiction comme exercice de la politique (Casa de Velázquez, 2001), La France espagnole: Les racines hispaniques de l’absolutisme français (Le Seuil, 2003), Oronoko prince esclave: Roman colonial de l’incertitude (Le Seuil, 2008), L’île aux mariés: Les Açores entre deux empires, 1583-1642 (Casa de Velázquez), and Race Is about Politics: Lessons from History (Princeton University Press, 2019).
