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URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/bodies-to-things-2/
SUMMARY:From Bodies to Things: The Commodification of Human Life in the Ear
 ly Modern Atlantic [Day 2]
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 Ch
 annel. To attend the conference in person\, you must reserve your space by
  emailing 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
  are strongly recommended at all indoor campus events.\n\n\n\nThis confere
 nce will consider the commodification of human labor and life throughout t
 he Atlantic during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Disparate exa
 mples of commodification cross geographic and disciplinary boundaries\, an
 d they are rarely brought into conversation. Yet considering the range of 
 ways in which human life and labor were commodified offers numerous opport
 unities to think beyond current paradigms of labor\, commerce\, and power 
 in the Atlantic world. First\, it forces us to think beyond the freedom/un
 freedom binary normally invoked in Atlantic histories of labor. Second\, i
 t provides new perspectives to address questions of the fluidity between o
 bjecthood and personhood normally pursued from material culture perspectiv
 es. Third\, it highlights the development of modern ideologies of race and
  gender. Finally\, it encourages us to think expansively about the role of
  human bodies in the transmutation of different value forms. People partic
 ipated in global commerce not only as consumers\, producers\, agents or fo
 rms of chattel\, but as apparitions and pawns who facilitated the mobility
  of commodities in a nascent capitalist economy. The conference will be in
 terdisciplinary in nature\, drawing on historical and anthropological pers
 pectives. It aims to bring European and African case studies into an Afro-
 Atlantic historical frame.\n\nSpeakers\n\nAna Lucia Araujo\, Howard Univer
 sity and Getty Research Institute\nHerman L. Bennett\, The Graduate Center
  CUNY\nLisa Cody\, Claremont McKenna College\nPablo F. Gómez\, University
  of Wisconsin\, Madison\nCraig Koslofsky\, University of Illinois Urbana-C
 hampaign\nPaul E. Lovejoy\, York University\nPolly Lowe\, University of Ex
 eter\nSusan A. C. Rosenfeld\, UCSD T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy 
 and Compassion\nSasha Turner\, The Johns Hopkins University\n\n\n\nImage: 
 The Paston Treason\, anonymous\, (c. 1670). Norwich Castle Museum. Wikimed
 ia.\n\n\n\nTo register please email c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu with the fo
 llowing information:\nFull name\nEmail address\nAcademic Status (such as G
 eneral Public\, UC Staff or Faculty\, Student\, Other Faculty\, etc.)\nAca
 demic Institution if applicable\nLunch (Vegetarian/Non-vegetarian)
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