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:468@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241018T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241019T163000 DTSTAMP:20240927T180839Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/early-global-caribbean-1/ SUMMARY:Early Global Caribbean: Conference 1: Convergences DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (University of Ca lifornia\, Los Angeles) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University)\n\n Co-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World\n\ nThe Caribbean became global through successive aggregations of disparate peoples across a wide span of time. Long before the arrival of Europeans\, the Caribbean Sea served as a bridge among the more than 700 islands that dot the area. For millennia\, Indigenous people moved among islands and b etween them and the adjacent mainland\, motived by settlement\, trade\, an d conflict. The circulation of peoples accelerated with the advent of Euro peans who seized lands\, killed many residents\, displaced others\, and fa cilitated the transshipment into the region of scores of enslaved Africans . Black Diasporic individuals would themselves follow routes that introduc ed new cohesion and terrains of struggle to the region. This meeting will consider the historical constructions of Caribbean space\, the waves of pe ople who moved through it across different temporalities before 1700\, and the results—both violent and otherwise—that followed these contacts.\ n\nSpeakers\nMichael D. Bennett\, The University of Sheffield\nThiago Krau se\, Wayne State University\nErnesto Mercado-Montero\, Dartmouth College\n Leonardo Moreno-Alvarez\, Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow\nMelissa N. M orris\, University of Wyoming\nSusanah Shaw Romney\, New York University\n Linda M. Rupert\, University of North Carolina at Greensboro\nCassander L. Smith\, University of Alabama\nVikram K. Tamboli\, University of Californ ia\, Los Angeles / Smithsonian Institution\nDavid Wheat\, Michigan State U niversity\n\n\n\nAbout the 2024–25 Core Program: Early Global Caribbean\ nThe Caribbean has been a site of global interaction and dramatic change f or centuries. Although consideration of the impact of the forces of global ization on the region often focuses on the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-centu ries 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\, especiall y one that considers recent advances in scholarly understandings of Indige nous and early colonial histories of the region\, has yet to be accomplish ed. This cycle of conferences and events will serve as an important cataly st for inter-disciplinary dialogue that will move Caribbean studies toward s centering transformations in the region’s societies\, cultures\, ideas \, and environments during a period that is conventionally assumed to be p refatory to the histories that followed in its wake.\n\n\n\nProgram Schedu le\nAll times listed in Pacific Daylight Time\n\nFriday\, October 18\n\n9: 30 a.m.\nCoffee and Registration\n\n10:00 a.m.\nDirector’s Welcome\nCarl a Gardina Pestana\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nIntroductory Remarks\nCarla Gardina Pestana\, University of California\, Los Angeles a nd Gabriel de Avilez Rocha\, Brown University\n\nPanel 1: The Long Contact Era\nChair: Alex Borucki\, University of California\, Irvine\n\n10:15 a.m .\nSusanah Shaw Romney\, New York University\n“Shaping the Wild Coast: I ndigenous-Dutch Interactions at Wiapoco in the Early Seventeenth Century ”\n\n10:45 a.m.\nErnesto Mercado-Montero\, Dartmouth College\n“Entangl ed Colonies\, Unfinished Conquest: Indigenes\, Africans\, and Settlers in the Seventeenth-Century Lesser Antilles”\n\n11:15 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n11 :45 a.m.\nCoffee Break\n\nPanel 2: Centering the In-Between\nChair: Roy Ri tchie\, The Huntington Library\n\n12:00 p.m.\nMelissa N. Morris\, Universi ty of Wyoming\n“Illicit Trade\, Invasion\, and Go-Betweens in the Sevent eenth-Century Caribbean”\n\n12:30 p.m.\nLeonardo Moreno-Alvarez\, Ahmans on-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow\n“Between Two Asientos: Forgotten Spanish Caribbean Slave-Trading Networks\, 1640–1660”\n\n1:00 p.m.\nDiscussio n\n\n1:30 p.m.\nLunch\nDisplay of Clark Library materials in the North Boo k Room\n\nPanel 3: Oceanic Vantage Points\nChair: Judith Carney\, Universi ty of California\, Los Angeles\n\n3:00 p.m.\nMichael D. Bennett\, The Univ ersity of Sheffield\, UK\n“The Global Dimensions of the Barbados Sugar B oom\, c.1640–90”\n\n3:30 p.m.\nThiago Krause\, Wayne State University\ n“Atlantic Divergence: Brazil\, the Caribbean\, and European Consumer Ma rkets\, 1640–1700”\n\n4:00 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n4:30 p.m.\nReception\n\ nSaturday\, October 19\n\n9:30 a.m.\nCoffee and Registration\n\nPanel 4: R hetoric and Ritual\nChair: Emily Berquist Soule\, California State Univers ity\, Long Beach\n\n10:00 a.m.\nCassander L. Smith\, University of Alabama \n“Black Legend Rhetoric at the Borders of Guinea and the Caribbean in t he Sixteenth Century”\n\n10:30 a.m.\nVikram K. Tamboli\, University of C alifornia\, Los Angeles / Smithsonian Institution\n“Seeds of Power: Ritu al Dance and Poisoning in the Americas”\n\n11:00 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n11: 30 a.m.\nCoffee Break\n\nPanel 5: Integration and Refuge\nChair: Ida Altma n\, University of Florida\n\n11:45 a.m.\nLinda M. Rupert\, University of N orth Carolina at Greensboro\n“New Geographies of Empire and Marronage: T he Seventeenth-Century Caribbean Roots of the Spanish Sanctuary”\n\n12:1 5 p.m.\nDavid Wheat\, Michigan State University\n“Against the Myth of Is olation: Reconstructing Early Spanish Caribbean Maritime Circuits”\n\n12 :45 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n1:15 p.m.\nProgram concludes\n\n\n\nThe conference is free to attend with advance registration. It will be held in-person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. Reg istration will close on Monday\, October 14 at 5:00 p.m. No registration i s required to watch the livestream. Seating is limited at the Clark Librar y\; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.\nLoading…\n\n\n\nI mage: Richard Blome’s The present state of His Majesties isles and terr itories in America… (London: Printed by H. Clark\, for D. Newman\, 1687) . 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