A Conversation with Adam Rovner
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A Conversation with Adam Rovner
Featuring Professor Adam Rovner (University of Denver) and Professor Adam S. Cohen (University of Toronto)
Description: Adam Rovner will briefly talk about his book, The Jew who would be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa. Recounting the incredible but true story of Nathaniel Isaacs (d. 1872), it touches upon the harsh realities and moral ambiguities of colonial power and exposes the entangled forces of Jewish emancipation and antisemitism, slavery and abolition, the stark dichotomies of civilization and “savagery,” and the creation of whiteness versus Blackness.
Please join us for an informal presentation and conversation about this fascinating historical character, the complexities of his nineteenth century context, and Prof. Rovner’s modern-day adventures in scholarly recovery.
Speakers:
Adam Rovner is the Director of the Centre for Judaic Studies and Professor at the University of Denver.
Adam S. Cohen is Graduate Chair and Associate Professor at the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto.