Ramesh Mallipeddi, associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia and editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century Studies, will give a guest lecture entitled "People on the Move, Frontiers in Motion: Migration in the British Atlantic.” Mallipeddi is the author of Spectacular Suffering: Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic (Virginia, 2016), articles in venues like Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, and ELH, as well as essays in edited collections such as The People: Belonging, Exclusion, and Democracy (Cambridge 2025) and Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition (Cambridge 2019). His current book project is entitled Settling the Earth: Racial Ecologies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 1627–1834.