BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:404@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230519T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230519T170000 DTSTAMP:20230517T011131Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/bodies-to-things-1/ SUMMARY:From Bodies to Things: The Commodification of Human Life in the Ear ly Modern Atlantic [Day 1] DESCRIPTION:–conference organized by Tawny Paul and Andrew Apter (Univers ity of California\, Los Angeles)\n\n\n\nThis conference is free of charge. It will be held in person and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Chan nel. To attend the conference in person\, you must reserve your space by e mailing the center( details at the bottom of this page). Bookings close on Monday\, May 15\, 2023 at 5:00 p.m.\n\nFace masks are not required but ar e strongly recommended at all indoor campus events.\n\n\n\nThis conference will consider the commodification of human labor and life throughout the Atlantic during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Disparate exampl es of commodification cross geographic and disciplinary boundaries\, and t hey are rarely brought into conversation. Yet considering the range of way s in which human life and labor were commodified offers numerous opportuni ties to think beyond current paradigms of labor\, commerce\, and power in the Atlantic world. First\, it forces us to think beyond the freedom/unfre edom binary normally invoked in Atlantic histories of labor. Second\, it p rovides new perspectives to address questions of the fluidity between obje cthood and personhood normally pursued from material culture perspectives. Third\, it highlights the development of modern ideologies of race and ge nder. Finally\, it encourages us to think expansively about the role of hu man bodies in the transmutation of different value forms. People participa ted in global commerce not only as consumers\, producers\, agents or forms of chattel\, but as apparitions and pawns who facilitated the mobility of commodities in a nascent capitalist economy. The conference will be inter disciplinary in nature\, drawing on historical and anthropological perspec tives. It aims to bring European and African case studies into an Afro-Atl antic historical frame.\n\nSpeakers\n\nAna Lucia Araujo\, Howard Universit y and Getty Research Institute\nHerman L. Bennett\, The Graduate Center CU NY\nLisa Cody\, Claremont McKenna College\nPablo F. Gómez\, University of Wisconsin\, Madison\nCraig Koslofsky\, University of Illinois Urbana-Cham paign\nPaul E. Lovejoy\, York University\nPolly Lowe\, University of Exete r\nTawny Paul\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nSusan A. C. Rosenf eld\, UCSD T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion\nSasha Tu rner\, The Johns Hopkins University\n\n\n\nFriday\, May 19\, 2023\n\n9:30 a.m.\nMorning Coffee and Registration \n\n10:00 a.m.       \nBronwe n Wilson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nDirector’s Welcome\n\ nTawny Paul and Andrew Apter\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nOpe ning remarks \n\n10:15 a.m.\nSession 1: Marking\, Naming and Resistance\n Chair: Patrícia Martins Marcos\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n \nPaul E. Lovejoy\, York University\n“Resistance to Commodification – The Question of Naming”\n\n10:45 a.m.\nCraig Koslofsky\, University of I llinois Urbana-Champaign\n“Self-Ownership and Commodification: Tattooed Laborers in the British Atlantic to c. 1750”\n\n11:15 a.m.\nSusan A.C. R osenfeld\, UCSD T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion\n“ ‘Certificates of Freedom’: Atlantic Mobility and Assertions of Liberty among Nineteenth-Century Afro-Brazilian Travelers”\n\n11:45 a.m.\nDiscu ssion\n\n12:15 p.m.\nLunch\n\n1:30 p.m.\nSession 2: The Limits of the Econ omy\nChair: Elizabeth Landers\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n Lisa Cody\, Claremont McKenna College\n"'People are the Wealth of a Nation ': The Invisible Handmaidens of Population and Profit”\n\n2:00 p.m.\nPol ly Lowe\, University of Exeter\n“Market Morality\, Contested Commodifica tion and Exceptionalism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Body and the Market in Eighteenth-Century Britain”\n\n2:30 p.m.\nHerman L. Bennett\, The Graduate Center CUNY\n“Civil Fictions” \n\n3:00 p.m.\nDiscussion \n\n3:30 p.m.\nCoffee Break\n\n3:45 p.m.\nSession 3: Keynote Address\nChai r: Tawny Paul\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nAna Lucia Araujo \, Howard University and Getty Research Institute.  [not available in liv estream]\n“Ngoyo Meets Dahomey: An Object of Prestige in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism”\n\n4:30 p.m.\nQ&\;A\n\n5:00 p.m .\nReception\n\nSaturday\, May 20\, 2023\n\n9:30 a.m.\nMorning Coffee and Registration\n\n10:00 a.m.\nSession 4: Technologies of Capitalism: Wages\, Debt\, and Quantification\nChair: Carla Pestana\, University of Californi a\, Los Angeles\n\nSasha Turner\, The Johns Hopkins University\n“Wages a nd Incentives: Rethinking Technologies of Capitalism”\n\n10:30 a.m.\nTaw ny Paul\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n“Debt Bondage and the Commodification of Prisoners in Eighteenth-Century Britain”\n\n11:00 a.m .\nCoffee Break\n\n11:15 a.m.\nPablo F. Gómez\, University of Wisconsin\, Madison\n“Body Arithmetic: Facts\, Quantification\, and the Human in th e Seventeenth-Century Black Atlantic” \n\n11:45 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n12: 15 p.m.\nProgram concludes\n\n\n\nImage: The Paston Treason\, anonymous\, (c. 1670). Norwich Castle Museum. Wikimedia.\n\n\n\nTo register please ema il c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu with the following information:\nFull name\nEma il address\nAcademic Status (such as General Public\, UC Staff or Faculty\ , Student\, Other Faculty\, etc.)\nAcademic Institution if applicable\nLun ch (Vegetarian/Non-vegetarian) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08 /The_Paston_Treasure-_website.jpg CATEGORIES:Conferences LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States GEO:34.033012;-118.314487 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UC LA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library:geo:34.033012,-118.314487 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR