Dr. William Nelson, University of Toronto
This event is free
Department of History
McConnell Library Building 1400 De Maisonneuve W. Room LB-1014
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Dr. Nelson's talk will address the Enlightenment birth of biopolitics, focusing on the creation of a formal regime of racial segregation aimed at identifying, managing, and eventually removing all people of color who lived in metropolitan France. The creation of a series of racial laws in the 1770s will be contextualized within the revolution that occurred within Enlightenment life sciences and the development of new biological ideas of race, revealing how ideas and practices of racial exclusion were a part of a larger development of programs aimed at biologically recreating populations.
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