A Reading and Rum Tasting with Jean McGarry and Franklin W. Knight

What links Jean McGarry's new memoir, reflecting on a life originally grounded in Catholicism, and Franklin W. Knight's new book The History and Connoisseurship of Rum? As it turns out, it's the ability to slow down and to savor--to consider the impact of the flavors that shape lives, cultures, and geographies-- so we're going to do just that on the Ivy patio on Friday, May 22nd.

We'll have a rum tasting with rums from around the world. Or, if you're more inclined towards other beverages, a bar with wine, beer, and n/a options available.

See you there!

Order HERSELF AND OTHERS: A MEMOIR here!

THE HISTORY AND CONNOISSEURSHIP OF RUM will be available for purchase at the event.

Jean McGarry, former professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, is the author of 11 books, mostly fiction, but including a memoir, *Herself and Others*.

Franklin W. Knight is currently Leonard and Helen R Stulman Professor Emeritus and Academy Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore where he taught for 43 years. Born in Jamaica, he attended Calabar High School, the University of the West Indies, Mona [BA Hons., 1964], and the University of Wisconsin, Madison [MA (1965), (PhD. 1969]. He has published widely on the social, cultural, economic and political dimensions of Latin America and the Caribbean as well as slave systems in a global perspective. His publications include 14 books, 112 professional articles, and 184 reviews in professional journals. In addition, he has made more than 328 presentations at national and international professional meetings in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. At Johns Hopkins he directed the Program in Latin American Studies (1998-2010) and the Center for Africana Studies (2011-2014). He served as president of the Latin American Studies Association between 1998 and 2000 and as president of the Historical Society, [USA] between 2006 and 2008. Between 2000 and 2014 he wrote a bi-weekly column for the Jamaica Observer. He has been honored by the Academy of Letters of Bahia, Brazil (2001); the Dominican Academy of History in the Dominican Republic (2006); the University of the West Indies (2007); The National Research Council of the National Academies (2008); the Asociación de Historiadores de América Latina y del Caribe (ADHILAC) (2011); the Cuban Academy of History (2012); the Asociación de la Historia Económica del Caribe (AHEC), as well as the Institute of Jamaica (2013), the Fundación Fernando Ortiz (2016), and the State of Maryland (2019). In 2024 the American Historical Association awarded Knight its Distinguished Scholarly Award.

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