Atlantic History Speaker Series
6275 Bunche Hall"The Lives (and Deaths) of Caged Birds: Wild Animals and their Transatlantic Circulation from the Americas to Spain During the Eighteenth Century." Martha Few, Dept. of History, University of Arizona
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Atlantic History Lecture Series
Talk by Professor José Curto
6275 Bunche Hall"Population movements in the South Atlantic - the case of Benguela and Rio de Janeiro, c. 1700-1850" José Curto is a Professor in the Department of History at York University. His research Interests include Modern Africa, Social and Economic History. This events is co-sponsored by the Brazilian history seminar and the Atlantic history cluster.
Winston James – “The Bolshevization of Claude McKay: The Radicalization of His British Sojourn, 1919-1921.”
6275 Bunche HallWinston James is a Professor in the Department of History at University of California, Irvine. His research interests include Caribbean, African-American, Black Britain, and the African Diaspora.
Nancy O. Gallman – “American Constitutions: Life, Liberty and Property in Colonial East Florida”
6275 Bunche HallNancy 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 […]
José I. Fusté – “Historicizing Entangled Afro-Latinidades: Looking Beyond the Diasporic and/or National Subject”
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 […]
Aisha Finch – “Of Time and Sugar: Making and Unmaking Cuban Plantation Temporalities”
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 […]
León García Garagarza – “The Aztec Healer, the Puppet King and the Mexican Inquisition: Noble Ailments and Colonial Imposition in Early New Spain”
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 […]
Carla Pestana – “Quaker Mobility and the threat to English America”
This talk considers the force and voluntary circulation of Quakers through the mid-17th century Atlantic. --Part of the CRS Faculty Lecture Series--
Marisa Fuentes, “‘Refuse’ Bodies, Disposable Lives: The Bio-politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade”
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
