Atlantic History Speaker Series
Aisha Beliso DeJesus, "Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion"
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Atlantic History Lecture Series
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Atlantic History Speaker Series
Tomas Robaina, National Library Of Cuba, "The Black Press of Cuba: Nineteenth Century Sources"
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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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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
