Thursday, November 5 2015, 12:30pm 101 LeConte Hall Padraic X. Scanlan is a historian of the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is finishing a book entitled MacCarthy's Skull, a history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone. His new research project examines efforts to statistically quantify the development of "civilization" in post-emancipation societies, particularly the development of metrics to measure literacy, morality, religiosity, and degrees of "idleness" and employment. He is Assistant Professor of History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. This lecture is part of a year-long series on Capitalism and Identity sponsored by the Department of History and by the President's Venture Fund.
