Event Description
The Caribbean played a central role in the global transformations that began in the fifteenth century. This virtual conference at the Huntington (San Marino, CA) explores the regional, Atlantic, and World approaches to the Caribbean, and what they each mean for thinking about the transformations within and beyond the Caribbean between ca. 1500 and 1800.
9am – Welcome and Introduction: Steve Hindle, The Huntington
Carla Pestana, UCLA (Convener)
Molly Warsh, University of Pittsburgh (Convener)
9:15am – Geographies of Exchange
David Wheat, Michigan State University – Catalina de los Santos: Caribbean Widow and Shipowner of African Descent in Terceira, Seville, and Tenerife (1592-1593)
Justin Roberts, Dalhousie University – Mosquitos and Slaves: Disease, Migration, and Labor in the Seventeenth-Century Global Tropics
Shantel George, Marist College – The Kola Nut in Caribbean History: Local and Global Circulations
10:45am – Circulating Bodies and Knowledge
Melissa N. Morris, University of Wyoming – The Influence of the Environment and Peoples of the Caribbean on Later Colonization Efforts
Jesse Cromwell, University of Mississippi – Scattered to the Winds: Canary Islanders, The Bourbon Reforms, and the Repopulation of the Spanish circum-Caribbean
Sasha Turner, Johns Hopkins University – Domesticated, Commodified, and Cultivated: The (In)visible and the (In)alienable in Care and Medical Work
1pm – Self-Liberation in the Caribbean
Rob Schwaller, University of Kansas – Undoing Spanish Conquests: The Territoriality of African and Indigenous Maroons in Sixteenth Century Hispaniola and Panama
Gabriel Rocha, Brown University – Runaway Ecologies: Between the Matos of São Tomé and the Montes of the Caribbean in the Early Sixteenth Century
Elena Schneider, UC Berkeley – Escaping Slavery by Sea: Knowledge Networks and Self-Liberation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
2:30pm – Logics of Profit
Pablo Gomez, University of Wisconsin – Early Modern Caribbean Slavery and the Imagination of Universal Quantifiable Bodies and Diseases
Pernille Roege, University of Pittsburgh – Foreigners and Foreign Capital in the Danish West Indies, ca. 1750-1800
Brett Rushforth, University of Oregon – Marronage and Informal Economies in the French Caribbean
Friday 18 September 2020, 9am–5pm PST
Source: https://www.huntington.org/global-caribbean
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