Provisional Programme:
Thursday 13 September 2007:
Opening Keynote
Walter Mignolo (Duke):
Dispensable Lives in the Atlantic World: Enslaved Africans, Indigenous Genocide and the European Holocaust
Session 1: Challenging Paradigms in Atlantic Studies: Beyond the Sugar Economy in 19C and early 20C Cuba
Benita Sampedro Vizcaya (Hofstra University): Taking the Transatlantic Turn (in Rethinking Colonial Latin American Studies)
Evelyn Jennings (Saint Lawrence): Circuits of Labor in mid-Nineteenth Century Cuba and the Paradigms of Atlantic and Slavery Studies
Session 2: The Many Faces of ‘Slavery’: Labour and Migration in 19C and early 20C Cuba
Christopher Paetzold: Spanish Immigrants and the End of Slavery in Cuba: the Social and Political Construction of Cuba, 1886-1930
Margaret Brehony (NUI Galway): ‘Paddy on the Railroad’ Irish railroad workers in Cuba 1835 - 1844
Public Keynote
James Sweet (Wisconsin): Beyond Slavery: Africanising Iberian Atlantic History
Friday 14 September 2007:
Session 3: Circuits of the Trade: Portugal and Cabo Verde in the 16C and 17C
F. Ribeiro da Silva (Leiden): The Portuguese slave trade circuits in the ‘Iberian Atlantic’ (1580-1640)
Tobias Green (Birmingham): The Slave Trade and Hegemony in Cabo Verde, 16th-17th Centuries
Session 4: Hybridity and Agency: Labour and Migration in 19C and early 20C Iberian West Africa
Gerhard Seibert (IICT, Lisbon): Beyond slavery in Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe. A comparison of two African Creole societies
David Aworawo (Lagos): The Fernandinos: Slavery, Migration and Social transformation in Spanish Guinea up to 1967
Session 5: Beyond Slavery in Post-Colonial Culture and Literature, Part 1
Lisa Surwillo (Stanford): Basque Slave Traders and their Atlantic in the Novels of Pío Baroja
Kirsty Hooper (Liverpool): Transatlantic Interpretations of Spain’s Colonial Legacy: Eva Canel and Blanca de los Ríos
Session 6: Beyond Slavery in Post-Colonial Culture and Literature, Part 2
Anne-Marie Pouchet (Ohio State): The new slave: the plight of the immigrant in Fatima de los Naufragios(1998) by Lourdes Ortiz
Tom Harrington (Trinity, Dublin): Gaietà Buigas i Monravà: Shaper of Public Space in Barcelona and Montevideo
Session 7: Resistance and Marronage
Omar H. Ali (Towson): Muslim Africans in the Iberian Atlantic, 1521-1888
Linda M. Rupert (UNC Greensboro): Maritime Marronage, Imperial Rivalries, and Freedom in the Circum-Caribbean, 1680-1790
Keynote
Francisco Bethencourt (Kings, London): The different impact of the slave trade on Africa, Brazil and Spanish America
Saturday 15 September 2007:
Session 8: Theologies of Slavery
Damian Costello: Theological Hermeneutics and the Growth of African Slavery in Early Colonial Latin America
Andrew Redden (Bristol): The Problem of Witchcraft, Slavery and Jesuits in Seventeenth-Century New Granada
Session 9: Looking Beyond Slavery: Abolitionist Discourse, 17C-19C
Jose Lingna Nafafe (Birmingham): Abolitionist Movements in the Portuguese Kingdom and Europe 17th Century: Lourenco Mendoca da Silva, Race, Identity and Difference
Gabriel Paquette (Trinity, Cambridge): Slavery, Abolition and European Immigration in José da Silva Lisboa’s Political and Economic Thought (c. 1800-1830)
Session 10: Lost in Translation
Bob Goodwin: Esteban Dorantes
Baltasar Fra-Molinero & Sue E. Houchins (Bates College, Maine): From Golden Child to Bride of Christ: The Experience of an African Nun in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Session 11: Imaginary Islands
Claire Williams (Liverpool): Re-branding Paradise: The Reinvention of São Tomé and Príncipe
Raquel Ribeiro (Liverpool): Imaginary islands and migrant figures – a comparison between José Saramago’s Iberian Atlantic and Maria Gabriela Llansol’s European Edenic Space
Carmen Ramos Villar (Sheffield): When an Island has consciousness: self-imagining in A Ilha Décima by Maria Luísa Soares
Closing discussion