Atlantic History Speaker Series

Aisha Beliso DeJesus, "Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion"

Atlantic History Speaker Series

Tomas Robaina, National Library Of Cuba, "The Black Press of Cuba: Nineteenth Century Sources"

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

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.

Nancy O. Gallman – “American Constitutions: Life, Liberty and Property in Colonial East Florida”

6275 Bunche Hall

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 […]

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 […]

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