Nancy O. Gallman is a Ph.D. candidate in Early American History at the University of California, Davis. Her dissertation, “American Constitutions: Life, Liberty, and Property in Colonial East Florida,” is a comparative legal history of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spanish–Native East Florida. It examines the interactions between Spanish colonial law and the customary law of […]
This presentation invites us to imagine afrodescended Latin@s—who live, think, and feel colonial modernity between different nations, regions, and subaltern positionalities—as subjects with inherently fragmented and “entangled” ontologies. Drawing from the writings of the Martinican poet-philosopher Edouard Glissant about the protean condition of the Caribbean (post)colonial subject, we will analyze various Cuban and Puerto Rican […]
This presentation explores the relationship between time – as it was regulated and embodied in the Cuban sugar plantation world – and the lived experiences of the people enslaved on these plantations. It juxtaposes the function of time as an ever-evolving technology of the plantation world, and its possibilities as a site of black fugitivity […]
In 1539 the Apostolic Inquisition of Mexico accused Martin Ocelotl of idolatry, blasphemy, and other crimes against the Church. Martin Ocelotl was a traditional ritual specialist from the area of Tetzcoco who actively opposed the imposition of colonialism and called for the restoration of the traditional way of life. The files of his trial register […]
Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents Maris J. Fuentes (Rutgers University, Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and History) "'Refuse' Bodies, Disposable Lives: The Bio-politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade" Tuesday, January 24, 2017 6275 Bunche Hall, 12 PM-2 PM
Greg O'Malley is an Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of California in Santa Cruz. His research interests include colonial British America and the Caribbean, the Atlantic world, slavery and the slave trade.
This is a three-part workshop to be held on May 4th, 11th, and 18th. To reserve your place, please send an email, which includes your name, affiliation, research focus and its relevance to the workshop to Carla Pestana at cgpestana@history.ucla.edu. The workshop will be capped at 12 participants. All UC graduate students are welcome, and […]
