Willem Klooster
Wim Klooster is Professor and Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Endowed Chair in History and International Relations at Clark University, where he has taught since 2003. He has published widely on the Dutch Atlantic, smuggling, Jewish history, and the age of revolutions. His books include Spanish American Independence Movements: A History in Documents (2021), Realm between Empires: The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815 (2018, co-authored with Gert Oostindie), Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (new edition, 2018), The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (2016), and Illicit Riches: Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795 (1998). Klooster is also the editor of the three-volume Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions (2023).
“Radical Royalism in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions”
The independence era in Latin America ended monarchical rule in Spain’s former colonies while transforming it in Brazil. Across the Americas, many of the subaltern remained loyal to their monarchs, often in the belief that these would allow them to bring about a radically different society. Who this monarch was depended on the context – it could be the Spanish king (even while in forced exile), Túpac Amaru, the Brazilian emperor or an African queen. This lecture will map the belief in an emancipating monarch for six areas: New Granada, Peru/Upper Peru, Mexico, the Río de la Plata, Brazil, and the (circum-)Caribbean.
Franklin Knight
Franklin W. Knight is Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History Emeritus and Academy Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was born in Manchester, Jamaica and attended Calabar High School. A graduate of the University College of the West Indies-London [B. A. (Hons.) 1964], he gained the M. A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1969) degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He taught for five years at the State University of New York in Stony Brook nd joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1973. Hed was a visiting lecturer at various times at the University of Texas in Austin, Howard University, Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, Colgate University as well as the Universities of Huelva, Sevilla, and Pablo de Olavide in Spain.. He has served on academic advisory committees for Harvard University, Princeton University, City University of New York, Swarthmore College, Ohio University, Colgate University, The Schomburg Library, The University of Florida at Gainesville, and the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras.
In 1991 he was appointed the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History. Between 1998 and 2001 he served as director of the Latin American Studies Program and in January 2011 he became the director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins.