The Early Modern Workshop at the University of Chicago is holding a discussion of Maura Capps’ dissertation chapter “The Insufficient Ark: A Political Ecology of a Failed Agricultural Department at the Cape of Good Hope, 1795-1806.”

Maura is a PhD candidate in the Department of History specializing in the environmental history of Britain’s settler empire.

The workshop will take place Monday 2 February 2015, at 5pm in Pick 319.

Graduate students at Northern Illinois University may want to participate in this workshop.