<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5">Literacy and Power in Madagascar: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic in the Nineteenth Century</font></b></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4">Pier M. Larson</font></b></div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University</font></b></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><br></font></b></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4">MIT, E51-275</font></b></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4">Friday, November 14 </font></b></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4">from 2:30 to 4:30 PM</font></b></p><div><br></div><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4">Protestant Evangelical missionaries and an innovative, ambitious ruler brought primary education and literacy to Madagascar in the early nineteenth century. While missionaries sought to spread the Word of God by sending students to recite the scriptures in domestic spaces, the royal court superimposed a bureaucracy upon its powerful army. The reading, writing, and calculating skills that cleric and king separately cultivated often came into conflict. Over time, the ways that adults absorbed reading skills posed challenges to both evangelism and military bureaucracy. This lecture sets these fascinating struggles over the uses of literacy in Madagascar in the perspectives of both World and Indian Ocean History.</font></b></p></div><div style="text-align: left;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><img id="9bd02a27-d87b-4383-8a0e-4a21d58bffd9" height="1206" width="980" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:082AC45D-2968-4ABE-B10C-789548B1E0F4"></div></body></html>