Speaker: Graduate Student Erin Trumble   Title: "Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan"   Description: The talk will focus on retirement as a life stage and examine how it represented a time when women had both more freedom after being liberated from daily tasks and more authority due to their […]

Adam Xavier McNeil is the 2025-26 postdoctoral fellow at the American Philosophical Society and is an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Rhode Island's Africana Studies department. McNeil defended his dissertation, “Contested Liberty: Fugitive Women & the Shadow of Re-Enslavement and Displacement in Revolutionary Virginia,” at Rutgers University in March 2025. He will speak about his work […]