BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:303@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T153000 DTSTAMP:20200416T190215Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/contested-foundations-3-1/ SUMMARY:ONLINE: Contested Foundations: Commemorating the Red Letter Year of 1619\, Conference 3: “Respectable Women”: Gender\, Family\, Labor\, R esistance\, and the Metanarrative of Patriarchy DESCRIPTION:This event is has been adapted to a one day online event. Speak ers will present online via a Zoom Webinar\, attendees will have multiple options to watch and listen in.\nZoom access instructions for this confere nce will be sent to registered attendees. Please register for this online conference by completing the Booking Form below.\n\n\n\n—organized by Br enda E. Stevenson (University of California\, Los Angeles) and Sharla M. F ett (Occidental College)\n\nThe year 1619 was designated as the red-letter year in Virginia\, the first permanent colony in British North America\, for three reasons—it marked the beginning of a representative government \; the arrival of captive African laborers\; and the initiation of a succe ssful plan to encourage permanent family development through the importati on of English women. It was on June 29\, 1619\, that Sir George Yeardley\, governor general of the colony\, convened a legislative assembly consisti ng of persons sent as representatives by its free male residents. It was t he first such legislative assembly in the British colonial New World. Two months later\, the first shipment of Africans arrived at Point Comfort on the southern coast of Virginia\, a foreshadowing of the hundreds of thousa nds of African laborers who would eventually arrive and help to transform Virginia\, and several other colonies\, into race-based-slave economies. T hat same year\, the Virginia Company of London began a concerted effort to recruit “respectable [English] women” to the colony so that\, in the words of one Company officer\, they could “‘make wifes to the inhabita nts and by that meanes to make the men there more settled and less moveabl e.” The combination of these efforts\, all meant to enhance the lives of the colonial male elite\, marked the beginning of a true settler colony f or Britain in North America. This beginning came with grim implications fo r the indigenous populations the British encountered. These experiments in governance\, settler colonialism\, and a racialized economy also proved t o be the characteristic underpinnings of our independent nation two hundre d and fifty years later. 1619 was indeed the red-letter year of British Am erica’s 17th century!\n\nThe 2019–20 core program\, which marks the 40 0th anniversary of this notable year\, encompasses three conferences\, ea ch of which will address one of the three seminal events of 1619 within th e geopolitical\, economic\, and social/cultural contexts of 17th and 18th century North America. Across these conferences\, we will also consider 16 19’s impact on the nation’s eventual character. The British\, of cours e\, were not the first Europeans to explore\, establish permanent settleme nts\, import African slaves\, or create governing structures in North Amer ica. The French and the Spanish made several forays into the southern\, gu lf\, and western regions before the British. Therefore\, the program will also encompass French and Spanish forays into the southern\, gulf\, and we stern regions.\n\nThe third conference will focus on the arrival\, coercio n\, commodification\, and resistance of native\, English\, and African wom en. Scholars will consider colonial women’s labor\, and their evolving s tatus within families and communities. Discussions will engage the problem s and possibilities of a colonial archive that has traditionally been cons tructed by\, and centered on\, a white\, elite patriarchy to the exclusion and/or marginality of the voices and divergent experiences of women\, Afr icans\, native peoples\, and non-elite whites.\n\nSpeakers\nDaina Ramey Be rry\, University of Texas at Austin\nKathleen M. Brown\, University of Pen nsylvania\nErica Armstrong Dunbar\, Rutgers University-New Brunswick\nShar la M. Fett\, Occidental College\nJessica Millward\, University of Californ ia\, Irvine\nSusanah Shaw Romney\, New York University\nSusan Sleeper-Smit h\, Michigan State University\nLisa Sousa\, Occidental College\nBrenda E. Stevenson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nLorena S. Walsh\, Colo nial Williamsburg Foundation\n\n\n\nOnline Program\n\nFriday\, April 17\, 2020\n\nAll listed times are Pacific Daylight Time\n\n9:00 a.m.\nBrenda E. Stevenson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nSharla M. Fett\, Occi dental College\nOpening Remarks \n\n9:15 a.m.\nPanel 1: Family and Patria rchal Authority\nChair: Brenda Stevenson\, UCLA   \n\nKathleen M. Brown\ , University of Pennsylvania\n"Colonizing Women: Women's Labor in Colonial North American Spaces"\n\n9:40 a.m.\nSusanah Shaw Romney\, New York Unive rsity\n“Intimacy and Empire in New Netherland”\n\n10:05 a.m.\nJessica Millward\, University of California\, Irvine\n“Archives of Intimate Viol ence and Legibility in Eras when Enslaved and Free Black Women’s Bodies Mattered”\n\n10:30 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n10:50 a.m.\nBreak\n\n11:00 a.m.\n Panel 2: Gender\, Race\, and Labor\nChair: Sharla Fett\, Occidental Colleg e\n\n11:05 a.m.\nSusan Sleeper-Smith\, Michigan State University\n“The A grarian Village World of Powhatan Women” \n\n11:30 a.m.\nErica Armstron g Dunbar\, Rutgers University\n“Working for the Washingtons: Enslaved Gi rls at Mount Vernon and Beyond”\n\n11:55 a.m.\nLorena Walsh\, Colonial W illiamsburg Foundation\n“Public History and the History of Female Labor\ , Family\, and the Community in the Early Chesapeake”\n\n12:25 p.m.\nDis cussion\n\n1:00 p.m.\nLunch Break\n\n2:00 p.m.\nExpert Roundtable: A Conve rsation on Accessing and Assessing the Archives Across Generations\nCo-Cha irs: Brenda Stevenson\, University of California\, Los Angeles and Sharla Fett\, Occidental College \n\nLisa Sousa\, Occidental College\n“Contest ing Patriarchy: Views from the Colonial Mexican Archive”\n\nDaina Ramey Berry\, University of Texas at Austin\n“Gatekeepers of History Establish ing Silences in the Archives”\n\nBrenda Stevenson\, University of Califo rnia\, Los Angeles\n“Social History of the Early South Across Race\, Cla ss\, Gender and Cultural Narratives.” \n\nSharla Fett\, Occidental Coll ege\n“Fragments and Ventriloquism: African Women Recaptives in the Archi ves of Transatlantic Slave Trade Suppression”\n\n3:00 p.m.\nDiscussion\n \n3:30 p.m.\nConference Concludes\n\n\n\n\n\nMusic from webinar: Dvorak - Serenade for Strings\, op 22 in E Major: larghetto by Advent Chamber Orche stra\n\nThere is no charge for this event. 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