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:467@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T173000 DTSTAMP:20240912T154534Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/caribbean-kaleidoscope/ SUMMARY:Caribbean Kaleidoscope: Convergence and Transformation in the Sixte enth and Seventeenth Centuries DESCRIPTION:\nLecture by Ida Altman\, Professor Emerita\, University of Flo rida\n\nAs Iberians in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries ex panded into the Atlantic world they intentionally and unintentionally crea ted conditions for the unprecedented convergence of peoples and cultures i n the Caribbean that would transform them and the region as a whole. The d imensions and complexities of that process can be identified at nearly all levels. Over time\, as other European nations became active in the Caribb ean\, contraband or extra-legal trade and efforts to stake out territorial claims generated other forms of convergence. Other Europeans followed man y of the precedents that the Spanish had introduced in the Caribbean. Most notably\, perhaps\, in contrast to the controversy that arose over Spanis h treatment of Indigenous peoples\, the European nations that participated in the slave trade and used the labor of enslaved Africans in their colon ies did so for decades without facing any serious protest or challenge. Pe rhaps\, then\, the most notable point of convergence in the Caribbean in t he sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was Europeans’ across-the-board c ommitment to the use of coerced labor in their overseas territories\, whet her they depended on encomienda labor\, indentured servants\, or enslaved workers.\n\nIda Altman received her Ph.D. in history from the Johns Hopkin s University in 1982. She taught at the University of New Orleans (1982– 2006) and the University of Florida (2006–2017)\, where she served as ch air of the History Department (2010–2014). She is the author\, co-author \, or editor of numerous books and articles on early modern Spain\, Mexico \, the Caribbean\, and the Atlantic world\, including The Spanish Caribbea n and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century\, co-edited with Da vid Wheat. Her prize-winning book\, Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century (1989)\, was the first scholarly work to demonstrate the role of family\, kinship\, and local society in s haping the movement of people from Spain to Spanish America. The War for M exico’s West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia\, 1524–1550 provide s a full account of events in western Mexico leading up to and through the Mixton War\, the response of the West’s Indigenous peoples to Spanish a ggression\, and the politics of early New Spain. Her most recent book is L ife and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean: The Greater Antilles\, 149 3–1550.\n\nPresented in conjunction with the 2024–25 Core Program\, Ea rly Global Caribbean.\n\n\n\nAbout the 2024–25 Core Program: Early Globa l Caribbean\nThe Caribbean has been a site of global interaction and drama tic change for centuries. Although consideration of the impact of the forc es of globalization on the region often focuses on the eighteenth-and-nine teenth-centuries era of sugar and slaves\, Caribbean people’s engagement with those forces long predates the period of the plantation complex. Yet a concerted reckoning with earlier global dimensions of Caribbean history \, especially one that considers recent advances in scholarly understandin gs of Indigenous and early colonial histories of the region\, has yet to b e accomplished. This cycle of conferences and events will serve as an impo rtant catalyst for inter-disciplinary dialogue that will move Caribbean st udies towards centering transformations in the region’s societies\, cult ures\, ideas\, and environments during a period that is conventionally ass umed to be prefatory to the histories that followed in its wake.\n\n\n\nTh e lecture is free to attend with advance registration. It will be held in- person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Cha nnel. Registration will close on Monday\, October 14 at 5:00 p.m. No regis tration is required to watch the livestream. Seating is limited at the Cla rk Library\; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.\nLoading… \n\n\n\nImages: Histoire naturelle des Indes: manuscript\, ca. 1586.\, fol . 97 recto. Courtesy of The Morgan Library &\; Museum. MA 3900. Bequest of Clara S. Peck\, 1983. Photograph courtesy of Professor Ida Altman. CATEGORIES:Core Program,Lectures LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream\, 252 0 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UCLA Willi am Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR