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SUMMARY:The UCLA History Atlantic Colloquium presents: Martinique in the Time of Yellow Fever: Colonial Public Health during the 1908 Yellow Fever Outbreak.
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14th at 12:30 pm \nErin Budrow\, Graduate Student\, Department of History\, UCLA \nPresentation: “Martinique in the Time of Yellow Fever: Colonial Public Health during the 1908 Yellow Fever Outbreak.” \nDiscussant: Soraya de Chadarevian\, Distinguished Professor\, Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics\, UCLA \nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/R4Npg_oaTWiTlHI48-6KXw\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-ucla-history-atlantic-colloquium-presents-martinique-in-the-time-of-yellow-fever-colonial-public-health-during-the-1908-yellow-fever-outbreak/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T140000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20260120T180022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T224754Z
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SUMMARY:The UCLA History Atlantic Colloquium presents: Mapping Seafarers and Black Women’s Networks in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Cartagena
DESCRIPTION:Viviana Quintero-Marquez\, UC President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow\, Departments of History\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, UC Merced. \nPresentation: “Mapping Seafarers and Black Women’s Networks in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Cartagena.” \nDiscussant: Nohora Arrieta Fernández\, Assistant Professor\, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese\, UCLA \nAlso on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98793935555
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-ucla-history-atlantic-colloquium-presents-mapping-seafarers-and-black-womens-networks-in-eighteenth-century-atlantic-cartagena/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T140000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20260120T175537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T180107Z
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SUMMARY:The UCLA History Atlantic Colloquium presents: Coachmen and Abakuá in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Subjects and Agents of Surveillance
DESCRIPTION:José Ortega\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Whittier College \nPresentation: “Coachmen and Abakuá in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Subjects and Agents of Surveillance.”
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-ucla-history-atlantic-colloquium-presents-coachmen-and-abakua-in-nineteenth-century-cuba-subjects-and-agents-of-surveillance/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T140000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20251003T004231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T195218Z
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SUMMARY:Territoriality and Freedom in the Bush: A Community-Focused Archaeology of Marronage in Colonial Dominica
DESCRIPTION:Please note: Contrary to the usual schedule\, this talk is on a Wednesday! \nRSVP for attending the talk remotely (Zoom): https://ucla.in/3WvjYFm \n  \nSpeaker: \nJonathan Rodriguez \nMcKnight Doctoral Fellow \nDept. of Anthropology\, University of South Florida \n  \nPaper: \n Justin Dunnavant (Discussant) \nAssistant Professor\, Dept. of Anthropology\, UCLA \n  \nJacko Steps\, Jacko Flats Trail\, Dominica. The stone steps were built by Chief Jacko\, an 18th-century leader of escaped slaves\, to access their Maroon settlement and protect it against colonial forces. Photo by Jonathan Rodriguez. \nIn British colonial Dominica from 1763 to 1834\, Maroons resisted enslavement by establishing fugitive geographies of resistance in the mountainous hinterlands of the island. The physical landscape of the island afforded Maroons a space to create communities\, survive in the rainforests\, and resist European colonialism and enslavement. This geospatial analysis of refuge settlements illustrates how Maroon geographies and Black ecologies within the untamed interior of Dominica disrupted cartographical concepts of European settler colonialism based on order\, hierarchy\, and exploitation. Most importantly\, this legacy of fugitive spatial methods and ecological practices was later employed by Rastafarians during the oppressive era of the Dread Act. After discussing the regional study\, I shift to the site-based survey highlighting the results of the community-based archaeological and digital heritage project at Jacko Flats. Jacko Flats is located near the rural village of Belles in the Central Forest Reserve\, and its place name signifies the location of a Maroon settlement occupied by self-emancipated formerly enslaved Africans under the leadership of Chief Jacko from 1764 to 1814. The archaeological project at Jacko Flats embraced this idea of creating community by collaborating with the Create Caribbean Research Institute at Dominica State College\, self-identified Dominican Maroon descendants\, local scholars and interested site visitors\, and Rastafarians. The results of the community-based archaeological project demonstrate how prioritizing collaboration facilitated the inclusion of interpretations of the site that are often neglected. I also reflect on the challenges and solutions for developing a community-focused archaeology project in the isolated hinterlands of Dominica. \n  \nBiography: Jonathan Rodriguez is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in the department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. In 2023\, he received a Fulbright U.S. Student Research grant to teach digital heritage methodologies to interns at Create Caribbean Research Institute and to conduct the first archaeological investigation of a Maroon settlement on the Caribbean island of Dominica. His research interests include historical archaeology\, Caribbean archaeology\, Geographic Information Science and digital heritage research\, and Maroon studies. \n 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/territoriality-and-freedom-in-the-bush-a-community-focused-archaeology-of-marronage-in-colonial-dominica/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251016T140000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20250930T184519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T161901Z
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SUMMARY:A Dialogue on Pan-Africanism
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP here\, lunch will be provided. \nTo attend remotely via Zoom\, RSVP here. \n  \nSpeakers: \nFélix Jean Louis III\, \nAssistant Professor\, Department of History\, University of California\, Irvine \nPaper: “Haiti\, Haitians\, and the Caribbean Roots of Pan-Africanism” \n  \nBright Gyamfi \nAssistant Professor\, Department of History\, Rutgers University \nPaper: “Pan-Africanism and African and Diasporic unity” \n  \nNana Osei-Opare (Discussant) \nAssistant Professor\, Department of History and Center for African & African American Studies\, Rice University
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/a-dialogue-on-pan-africanism/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T140000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20250428T170103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T170140Z
UID:16110-1746707400-1746712800@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Susan Juster (W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the Huntington Library)\, “A Common Grave: Being Catholic in English America.”
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/susan-juster-w-m-keck-foundation-director-of-research-at-the-huntington-library-a-common-grave-being-catholic-in-english-america/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241031T130000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20240912T223047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241024T234315Z
UID:14479-1730376000-1730379600@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:(Postponed) Ariela Gross\, Of Coercion\, Consent\, and Concubines: The Regulation and Litigation of Interracial Sex and Marriage under Slavery in the U.S. South
DESCRIPTION:Event Details Coming Soon.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/ariela-gross-of-coercion-consent-and-concubines-the-regulation-and-litigation-of-interracial-sex-and-marriage-under-slavery-in-the-u-s-south/
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T133000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20240517T213304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240517T214823Z
UID:13709-1716465600-1716471000@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Melissa Morris “’Pirates Which Infest That Coast’: Illicit Trade and Imperial Rivalry in Seventeenth-Century Western Hispaniola”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Melissa N. Morris is a historian of early America and the Atlantic World whose research is centered on the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She is particularly interested in the cross-cultural interactions that defined colonial encounters\, the role of plants in driving European expansion\, the dissemination of geographic and agricultural knowledge\, and colonial failures in the Americas. She completed her PhD in history at Columbia University in 2017. Dr. Morris’s first book project\, “Cultivating Colonies: Tobacco and the Origins of Empires\, 1580-1740\,” considers how tobacco helped the Dutch\, English\, and French establish empires in the Americas. It looks in particular at how Europeans relied upon indigenous and Spanish assistance to learn to cultivate tobacco\, a crop they grew in nearly all their early colonies.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/melissa-morris-pirates-which-infest-that-coast-illicit-trade-and-imperial-rivalry-in-seventeenth-century-western-hispaniola/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240516T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240516T133000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20240507T175316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240507T175609Z
UID:13538-1715860800-1715866200@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Caribbean Cabbage Trees: Settlers and Botany in England’s Early Atlantic Empire
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/caribbean-cabbage-trees-settlers-and-botany-in-englands-early-atlantic-empire/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20231013T190004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T184214Z
UID:10270-1701345600-1701351000@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Justin Dunnavant (UCLA Anthropology) - Denmark Vesey: A Caribbean Revolution in South Carolina
DESCRIPTION:The Atlantic History Colloquium generates innovative scholarship on the relations linking Africa\, Europe and the Americas by investigating the expansion of markets during the slave trade; the production of literary texts and forms of historical memory; the politics of religious dissent and conversion; the growth of colonial science and cartography; Native American ethnogenesis; the rise of abolitionist and Pan-African ideologies; and the dynamics of race\, gender and creolization throughout the Atlantic world. \nPlease visit UCLA Atlantic History for more information and a complete schedule of events in 2023.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/justin-dunnavant-ucla-anthropology-denmark-vesey-a-caribbean-revolution-in-south-carolina/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231109T133000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20231013T185518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T183737Z
UID:10261-1699531200-1699536600@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Mike Jarvis (Rochester) - Castle Cormantine and Early English Africa\, 1632-1672
DESCRIPTION:The Atlantic History Colloquium generates innovative scholarship on the relations linking Africa\, Europe and the Americas by investigating the expansion of markets during the slave trade; the production of literary texts and forms of historical memory; the politics of religious dissent and conversion; the growth of colonial science and cartography; Native American ethnogenesis; the rise of abolitionist and Pan-African ideologies; and the dynamics of race\, gender and creolization throughout the Atlantic world. \nPlease visit UCLA Atlantic History for more information and a complete schedule of events in 2023.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/mike-jarvis-rochester-castle-cormantine-and-early-english-africa-1632-1672/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T120000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20231013T184949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231014T000626Z
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SUMMARY:Tanya Bride (UCLA History) - Trails of Hoof and Pawprints
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our first lecture series of the 23-24 academic year featuring Tanya Bride who will speak on “Trails of Hoof and Pawprints: Tracing human-animal relations in colonial Mexico through the religious courts and Relaciones Geográficas”. \nPlease note:  This event will only be held via Zoom.  It will not be in person. \nThis event is part of the UCLA History Department Atlantic History lecture series.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/tanya-bride-ucla-history-trails-of-hoof-and-pawprints/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230601T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230601T133000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20230428T194949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T195022Z
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SUMMARY:Mélanie Cournil\, Senior Lecturer in British History at the Sorbonne University "Transatlantic Circulation of Botanical Knowledge : The Glasgow Years of William Jackson Hooker (1820-1841)"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/melanie-cournil-senior-lecturer-in-british-history-at-the-sorbonne-university-transatlantic-circulation-of-botanical-knowledge-the-glasgow-years-of-william-jackson-hooker-1820-1841/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230519T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230519T170000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20230428T194535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T194535Z
UID:7182-1684486800-1684515600@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Clark Library Conference "From Bodies to Things: The Commodification of Human Life in the Early Modern Atlantic" organized by Tawny Paul and Andrew Apter (UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:https://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/bodies-to-things-1/
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/clark-library-conference-from-bodies-to-things-the-commodification-of-human-life-in-the-early-modern-atlantic-organized-by-tawny-paul-and-andrew-apter-ucla/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T133000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20230428T192143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T192143Z
UID:7176-1683158400-1683207000@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Kevin Dawson\, Associate Professor of History\, University of California\, Merced “Surfing\, Surf-Canoeing\, and the Atlantic Slave Trade”
DESCRIPTION:Atlantic Africa—the region extending from Senegal to Angola—has few natural harbors\, compelling Africans to cross through surf to reach fisheries and coastal shipping lanes.  Sources suggest that one thousand years ago Africans independently developed surfing to understand how to design and surf waves ashore in surf-canoes loaded with fish cargo.  Today\, Atlantic Africans remain the only people to harness wave energy as part of their daily labor practices.  Even as Europeans crossed oceans\, their rowboats were too slow to navigate African surf-zones\, and routinely capsized.  Hence\, surf-canoemen transported most of the goods imported into and exported out of Africa between ship-and-shore\, including the majority of the twelve million captives shipped into Atlantic slavery.  This talk considers how African maritime wisdom and expertise informed the cultural and economic development of the Atlantic world. \nZoom: RSVP
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/kevin-dawson-associate-professor-of-history-university-of-california-merced-surfing-surf-canoeing-and-the-atlantic-slave-trade/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T133000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20230119T211310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T173135Z
UID:6485-1681992000-1681997400@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Mika Lior\, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at the University of Malta\, "Circling With/In: Choreographies of Gendered & Regendered Agency in Bahian Candomblé"
DESCRIPTION:Mika Lior\, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at the University of Malta\n“Circling With/In: Choreographies of Gendered & Regendered Agency in Bahian Candomblé” \nBased on history\, dance studies methodologies and critical ethnography\, this paper addresses choreographies of invocation and incorporation in the Afro-Brazilian ritual practice of Candomblé through the lens of indigenous feminisms and choreographic analysis. Looking closely at practitioners’ use of circular and cyclical movements and spatial pathways at a range of ceremonial sites in Salvador\, the capital of Bahia in Northeastern Brazil\, I show how Candomblé’s aesthetic principles and matri-focal social structures are similarly informed by what I call a feminist poiesis\, evidenced in ceremonial performance histories that privilege women’s bodies for mediumship. Intervening in the dominant representation of Candomblé’s spirit embodiments as acts of “possession\,” I attend to practitioners’ idioms of incorporation\, including circling with and in the saint –“rodar com o santo” and “rodar no santo\,” – to illustrate how ritual processes are actively constructed around intersubjective\, movement oriented ontologies as well as cycles of women’s reproductivity and Yoruba-Atlantic understandings of gendered agency. At the same time\, processes of incorporation instantiate a non-binary ontology of ritual gender fluidity through which male mediums take on structurally feminized roles. \nThis presentation concludes by considering how performance studies approaches such as choreographic analysis and dance practice under the tutelage of ritual experts can contribute to processes of intercultural knowledge production. I share my ethnographic dance film\, Ogum’s Story\, co-created with Candomblé elder Dona Cici\, as a model for thinking through circling with/in not only as an ontology of spirit embodiment but also a collaborative\, mutually reciprocal research method. \nZoom RSVP Here
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/mika-lior-assistant-professor-of-performing-arts-at-the-university-of-malta-circling-with-in-choreographies-of-gendered-regendered-agency-in-bahian-candomble/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T133000
DTSTAMP:20260520T210630
CREATED:20230119T211031Z
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SUMMARY:Marc Hertzman\, Associate Professor\, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign "Flying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife" 
DESCRIPTION:Marc Hertzman\, Associate Professor\, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign\nFlying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife  \nMost histories of Palmares\, the sprawling collection of settlements in Brazil that became perhaps history’s largest fugitive slave society\, end in 1695\, when colonial forces assassinated the famous rebel leader Zumbi. My book project plays the story forward into the eighteenth century to propose a new way to think about maroon communities across the Americas. Palmares and other such settlements have rightfully been understood as spaces of diasporic refuge and resistance; but unless descendants can trace their lineage directly back to them\, through land possession or genealogy\, scholars implicitly define them as endpoints: formerly enslaved people either lived out their days there or were recaptured or killed. I advance a new framework that treats maroon communities as points of origin\, capable of generating their own unique diasporas. Along with Palmares’s previously overlooked human diaspora—members who were captured in or fled Palmares—I examine the pathways along which inheritances and memories of Zumbi and Palmares survived after 1695: canonical historical texts; the lives and travels of soldiers who fought against Palmares; soldiers’ claims (most embellished) to killing Zumbi\, which they turned into heritable wealth; previously ignored place names that made elements of the natural landscape memorials to Palmares and Zumbi; and spiritual traditions\, which remain an important locus of history and memory. \nZoom RSVP Here
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/marc-hertzman-associate-professor-university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign-flying-home-palmares-and-the-afterlife/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T133000
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SUMMARY:Flying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife
DESCRIPTION:Marc Hertzman\, Associate Professor\, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign\nFlying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife  \nMost histories of Palmares\, the sprawling collection of settlements in Brazil that became perhaps history’s largest fugitive slave society\, end in 1695\, when colonial forces assassinated the famous rebel leader Zumbi. My book project plays the story forward into the eighteenth century to propose a new way to think about maroon communities across the Americas. Palmares and other such settlements have rightfully been understood as spaces of diasporic refuge and resistance; but unless descendants can trace their lineage directly back to them\, through land possession or genealogy\, scholars implicitly define them as endpoints: formerly enslaved people either lived out their days there or were recaptured or killed. I advance a new framework that treats maroon communities as points of origin\, capable of generating their own unique diasporas. Along with Palmares’s previously overlooked human diaspora—members who were captured in or fled Palmares—I examine the pathways along which inheritances and memories of Zumbi and Palmares survived after 1695: canonical historical texts; the lives and travels of soldiers who fought against Palmares; soldiers’ claims (most embellished) to killing Zumbi\, which they turned into heritable wealth; previously ignored place names that made elements of the natural landscape memorials to Palmares and Zumbi; and spiritual traditions\, which remain an important locus of history and memory.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/flying-home-palmares-and-the-afterlife/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Madina Thiam\, Assistant Professor of History\, NYU "Absolutely and Utterly Free: An Atlantic-Saharan Journey through Slavery and Race-Making\, 1834-1836"
DESCRIPTION:This talk follows Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Watara\, a Timbuktu-born teenager who was enslaved in Jamaica from 1805 to 1834. Upon securing his manumission\, Watara undertook a trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan journey\, in a bid to return home. A close examination of Watara’s words and writings about him\, and a reconstruction of his trajectory\, provides insight into the social and political forces that ushered in deep changes in the worlds of the British Atlantic and Muslim Sahel and Sahara\, in the first half of the nineteenth century. As Watara sought to secure freedom while journeying across the Atlantic and Sahara\, which strategies did he leverage? How did larger political changes in 1820s-1830s Sahel\, Sahara\, and Atlantic render his aspirations to freedom possible\, and how did they restrict them? Scholars have previously written about Watara’s journey and writings by situating his autobiography within the broader genre of transatlantic slave narratives\, and analyzing his trajectory as evidence of the retention of African cultural expressions among enslaved Black Muslims in the Americas. \nThis talk offers a new interpretation of Watara’s articulation and praxis of freedom\, framing them in the broader contexts of the end of chattel slavery in the British Atlantic\, booming trans-Saharan slave trade\, and changing notions of race and enslaveability in the West African Sahel in the era of Islamic revolutions and state-building. \nZoom RSVP \n 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/madina-thiam-assistant-professor-of-history-nyu-absolutely-and-utterly-free-an-atlantic-saharan-journey-through-slavery-and-race-making-1834-1836/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T153000
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SUMMARY:Erin Rowe\, Professor of History\, Johns Hopkins University "The Black Saints of the Carmelite Order: Ancient Ethiopia in the Early Modern European Imagination”
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in the seventeenth-century\, members of the Carmelite order adopted two ancient Ethiopian saints\, Efigenia and Elesban. While their interest in ancient saints was tied to the order’s longstanding efforts to prove the antiquity of their order dating back to the Prophet Elijah\, the inclusion of Ancient Ethiopia in these efforts tell a more complex story about how early modern Spaniards thought with and about Ancient Ethiopia. The inclusion of Ethiopia in early modern ideas about the Biblical Near East clashed with the treatment of enslaved people from West and Central Africa being brought to the peninsula in vast numbers\, while devotion to Ethiopian saints by White and Black Spaniards transformed the spiritual and historical landscape. \n*Co-sponsored by Department of History\, CMRS-CEGS\, The Atlantic History Colloquium\, Peter H. Reill Chair in European Studies\, and The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/erin-rowe-professor-of-history-johns-hopkins-university-the-black-saints-of-the-carmelite-order-ancient-ethiopia-in-the-early-modern-european-imagination/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T133000
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SUMMARY:Brett Rushforth\, Associate Professor\, University of Oregon “Consuming Colonialism: The Atlantic World in Sixteenth-Century France”
DESCRIPTION:Brett Rushforth\, Associate Professor\, University of Oregon\n“Consuming Colonialism: The Atlantic World in Sixteenth-Century France” \nZoom RSVP Here
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/brett-rushforth-associate-professor-university-of-oregon-consuming-colonialism-the-atlantic-world-in-sixteenth-century-france/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T133000
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SUMMARY:Atlantic History Colloquium: Melissa Morris\, Assistant Professor of History\, University of Wyoming
DESCRIPTION:Pirates which infest that coast’: Illicit Trade and Imperial Rivalry in Seventeenth-Century Western Hispaniola\nThis presentation considers the illicit trade of tobacco and other goods from Western Hispaniola. French\, Dutch\, and English ships came from the 1560s to trade with the diverse groups living there—Indigenous\, Spanish\, and African. In response\, in 1605-6\, western and northwestern Hispaniola and other centers of tobacco cultivation were depopulated. The Spanish forcibly resettled residents\, burned their towns\, and issued a decree banning tobacco cultivation. These harsh measures\, however\, were far from the end of the island’s tobacco trade\, or of interlopers’ presence. Some residents refused to move\, and they were now joined by French and Dutch buccaneers. By 1630\, they had several tobacco plantations in western Hispaniola. This chapter relies upon documents in several languages and from diverse archives to tell the story of the Spanish illicit trade and depopulations\, the subsequent rise of interlopers who were loyal to no empire\, and the eventual takeover of western Hispaniola by the French. \nZoom RSVP
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/pirates-which-infest-that-coast-illicit-trade-and-imperial-rivalry-in-seventeenth-century-western-hispaniola/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T133000
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SUMMARY:Cuba and Cape Verde: Revolutionary Connections across the Pan-African Atlantic
DESCRIPTION:Zoom: RSVP
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/cuba-and-cape-verde-revolutionary-connections-across-the-pan-african-atlantic/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211101T160000
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SUMMARY:Chris Willoughby\, "Collected without Consent: Imperialism and Enslavement in Harvard’s Medical Museum."
DESCRIPTION:Nov 1 Chris Willoughby (Huntington Library) \n“Collected without Consent: Imperialism and Enslavement in Harvard’s Medical Museum.” \nCo-sponsored with the Atlantic field \n  \nIn 1847\, upon his retirement\, John Collins Warren gave his entire anatomical collection to Harvard’s medical school\, including a  collection of racial skulls that would grow to include more than 150 objects. In this presentation\, I will specifically analyze how skulls from the Black Atlantic were collected and dubbed “African\,” attempting to erase their individual and cultural identities in favor of their  simple racialization. Specifically\, I will examine the story of two skulls of African descendants\, an unnamed leader from the 1835 Muslim Uprising in Bahia and another of Sturmann\, a Khoe man from Little Namaqua Land who committed suicide in Boston in 1860 while a living exhibit. In telling their stories\, I have two goals. First\, I will posit a method for writing the history of racist museum exhibitions that does not continue the silencing of marginalized peoples displayed in those exhibits. Second\, I argue that medical schools were intimately connected to the violence of slavery and empire. Through giving attention to the experiences of the skulls’ living antecedents though\, I show that hidden in these records are histories of rebellion\, politics\, and survival in the age of empire. \n  \nFor remote participants: \nPlease click here to register and receive a Zoom link \n  \nFor those joining us on campus\, RSVP and symptom monitoring is required. Please be prepared to show your clearance status when entering the seminar room. \nPlease RSVP using this form if you will be attending in person \n  \nFor visitors coming from other institutions\, please remember that UCLA has a vaccine mandate and that everyone coming to campus needs to fill out the daily symptom monitoring form which can be found here: \nhttps://uclasurveys.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3qRLtouCYKzBbH7
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/chris-willoughby-collected-without-consent-imperialism-and-enslavement-in-harvards-medical-museum/
LOCATION:Zoom RSVP
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211018T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211018T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T213157Z
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SUMMARY:Mario Biagioli\, "From Anti Science to Science Mimicry: Inventing Ethics in Trump's EPA."
DESCRIPTION:October 18\, 5 pm Mario Biagioli (UCLA Law and Information Studies) \n(please note the later time) \nThis paper moves from the recent findings of agnotologists (like the book Merchants of Doubt) about the post-WWII strategy by tobacco and oil companies to cast doubt about the scientific evidence concerning\, respectively\, the risks of tobacco smoking and the existence of global warming. I argue that a new chapter of that strategy book was recently articulated in Trump’s EPA. This is a strategy that does not hinge on the production of doubt about the content of scientific knowledge but rather targets and transforms some of the key ethical norms of science (openness\, transparency\, and impartiality)\, effectively turning them against themselves. \n  \nFor remote participants: \nPlease click here to register and receive a Zoom link \n  \nFor those joining us on campus\, RSVP and symptom monitoring is required. Please be prepared to show your clearance status when entering the seminar room. \nPlease RSVP using this form if you will be attending in person \n  \nFor visitors coming from other institutions\, please remember that UCLA has a vaccine mandate and that everyone coming to campus needs to fill out the daily symptom monitoring form which can be found here: \nhttps://uclasurveys.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3qRLtouCYKzBbH7
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/mario-biagioli-from-anti-science-to-science-mimicry-inventing-ethics-in-trumps-epa/
LOCATION:Zoom RSVP
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T140000
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SUMMARY:Degenhart Brown\, “‘Spiritscapes’ as ‘Atlantic Modernities’: Examining the Ritual Pathways of Spirit Possession and ‘Fetish’ Objects in West Africa.”
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation I explore how the dense vectors of material culture and spirit possession established in the crucible of the modern era continue to inform the decisions of millions of west Africans as they navigate everyday realities at home and abroad. In the first half of this talk\, I explore emerging themes in “fetish modernity” theory to demonstrate how\, as mediators of modern history\, “fetish” objects\, through their own semantic and epistemological ambivalence\, have changed the ways in which scholars interpret historical conventions. In the second half\, I look at some examples of the confluence of possession rituals and slavery discourse across contemporary west Africa to illustrate how the relationships between northern and southern “spirits\,” resulting from hinterland slave raids\, inform local interpretations of the ongoing legacies of trans-Atlantic slavery. I conclude by engaging the work of Charles Piot to demonstrate how power objects and ritual acts of possession are in themselves “alternative modernities” that have remained crucial ontological technologies in west Africa due to their capacity to efface national and international efforts to define and control west African lifeworlds. \nZoom RSVP
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/degenhart-brown-spiritscapes-as-atlantic-modernities-examining-the-ritual-pathways-of-spirit-possession-and-fetish-objects-in-west-afri/
LOCATION:Zoom RSVP
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T140000
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SUMMARY:Alea Adigweme\, "A Prelude to the Vestibular: Reading Paratexts in Charles Shepard's 'An Historical Account of the Island of Saint Vincent'"
DESCRIPTION:Alea Adigweme\, MFA student in Interdisciplinary Studio Art at UCLA \nZoom – Click here to register for the event.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/alea-adigweme-a-prelude-to-the-vestibular-reading-paratexts-in-charles-shepards-an-historical-account-of-the-island-of-saint-vincent/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T140000
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CREATED:20211020T225454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T213452Z
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SUMMARY:Devin Leigh\, "The Origins of an Archive: Enslavers and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Production in an Age of Abolition"
DESCRIPTION:Click here to register for the event.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/devin-leigh-the-origins-of-an-archive-enslavers-and-the-geopolitics-of-knowledge-production-in-an-age-of-abolition/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210506T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210506T140000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T220315Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Schiffler\, "Snow Eggs: Situated Tastes and Partial Archives"
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Schiffler\, PhD student in Theater and Performance Studies\, UCLA \n“Snow Eggs: Situated Tastes and Partial Archives” \nThis talk traces a history of Snow Eggs\, from its inception in American gastronomic history to a contemporary Los Angeles performance. Beginning with the recipe from 18th century Chef James Hemings\, enslaved to President Jefferson\, a study of Snow Eggs reveals the emerging technologies and relations between French and American gastronomy. Extending to the 2020 dinner series ‘Hemings & Hercules’ created by Chef Martin N. Draluck at Hatchet Hall in Los Angeles centers reenactment as a historical method that reveals historical\, ecological\, and technological entanglements. This talk challenges the dominant culinary narrative of the whiteness of French-American gastronomy\, to position American cookbooks adapting French cuisine to be read\, and performed\, through the legacy of Hemings’ contribution to American foodways. \nRegister here
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/elizabeth-schiffler-snow-eggs-situated-tastes-and-partial-archives/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210415T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210415T140000
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SUMMARY:Barbara Krauthamer\, "Liberty’s Diaspora: Black Women in the Age of the American Revolution"
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Krauthamer\, Professor of History\, UMass Amherst \n“Liberty’s Diaspora: Black Women in the Age of the American Revolution” \nThis presentation examines the lives of three Black women who had been enslaved in the British North American colonies at the time of the American Revolution. The presentation reflects on their lives by considering the ways historians have navigated the archival gaps and silences about Black women’s presence. The presentation follows the women’s voluntary and forced migrations\, their Diasporic routes\, within the Americas and across the Atlantic. This focus on Black women’s routes of resistance\, liberation and deportation adds a new dimension to the more familiar and male dominated stories of slavery\, Black Loyalists and the American Revolution. \nRegister
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/barbara-krauthamer-libertys-diaspora-black-women-in-the-age-of-the-american-revolution/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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