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The Race and Regency Lab brings the public, scholars, and cultural critics together to reimagine our understandings of race in the nineteenth century. By amplifying a diverse community, The Lab speaks to the vibrant intersections of history, art, and popular culture and will serve as an incubator for new approaches to Regency culture. We aim to broaden and deepen understanding of the Regency—a period that is technically quite short—by considering it alongside constructions of race in the era. Doing so, expands it thematically, geographically, and temporally. This expansion shifts the focus from the myth of a homogenous Britain to a global understanding of its impact in the past and how we engage with it now.

Who we serve: readers • fans • librarians • artists • curators • teachers • students • writers • scholars • professors

How we serve: workshops • seminars • community reads • exhibitions • dialogues • screenings • lectures