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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:EIHS Symposium: New Directions in the Study of Race in Latin America and the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:The study of race has been one of the primary ways scholars have engaged with the myriad histories of Latin America and the Caribbean. As scholars push the study of race in new directions\, they are also directing renewed focus on old questions\, making the present moment a particularly exciting and generative time for the field. This symposium considers the development\, meanings\, and political outcomes of systems of racial identity and identification in Latin America and the Caribbean\, offering graduate students a platform to present their research and engage scholars who are interested in broadening our historical understandings of race in global perspectives.\n\nOpening Remarks: 9:45-10:00 AM\nSymposium organizers Ángela Pérez-Villa (History\, University of Michigan) and Andrés Pletch (History\, University of Michigan) will deliver opening remarks.\n\nSession 1: 10-11:00 AM\n\nCommentator: Professor Daniel Nemser (Romance Languages and Literatures\, University of Michigan)\n\nPanelists:\nAna María Silva (History\, University of Michigan): \"Uprooting Heresy: Property\, Free Women of Color\, and the Inquisition of Cartagena\"\nSophie Hunt (History\, University of Michigan): “Who Are the Indians? Racial Fluidity Across the Gulf of Mexico”\nJohn Milstead (History\, Michigan State University): \"Exporting Commodities and Constructing Race: Language\, Culture\, and Geography in Late 19th Century Jamiltepec\, Oaxaca”\n \nCoffee Break: 11-11:15 AM\n \nSession 2: 11:15 AM-12:15 PM\n\nCommentator: Professor Céline Flory (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)\n\nPanelists: \nAndrew Walker (History\, University of Michigan): \"All spirits are roused\": the Local Meanings of Free Soil in Haitian Santo Domingo\, 1822-1844”\nAndrés Pletch (History\, University of Michigan): “Cuba’s Military Commission and the Construction of a Legal Fiction of Race\, 1825-1832”\nMarvin Chochotte (History\, University of Michigan): “A Post-Emancipation Crisis: Popular Terror\, Peasants\, Tonton Makouts and the Rise of the Duvalier Dictatorship”\n	 \nLunch Break 12:15-1:30 PM\n\nSession 3: 1:45-2:45 PM\n\nCommentator: Professor Paulina Alberto (History\, Romance Languages and Literatures\, University of Michigan)\n\nPanelists:\nPaige Andersson (Romance Languages and Literatures\, University of Michigan): “Narratives of Race\, Land\, and Congregación in Mexico\, 1521-2016”\nAmanda Reid (History\, University of Michigan): “Staging the Jump Up:  Afro-Caribbean Performance and Spectatorship at Carifesta 1976”\nPedro Cantisano (History\, University of Michigan): \"Race\, Law\, and Urban Reforms in Early 20th Rio de Janeiro\"\n \nCoffee Break (2:45 to 3:00 PM)\n \nConcluding remarks: 3:00PM\nProfessor Ada Ferrer (History\, Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, New York University) will deliver concluding remarks.\n\nFree and open to the public. Lunch provided. \n\nThis event was organized by graduate students Ángela Pérez-Villa and Andrés Pletch and is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:30874-3843116@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30874
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Latin America
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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