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:471@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250222T163000 DTSTAMP:20250212T230319Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/early-global-caribbean-2/ SUMMARY:Early Global Caribbean: Conference 2: Convictions 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 diverse peoples who converged on the Caribbean before 1700 held a ran ge of differing beliefs\, ideas about the natural world\, and understandin gs of social\, political\, and spiritual order. Considering how Indigenous \, African\, and European systems of thought and faith clashed\, adapted\, and transformed will be the focus of this second meeting. We invite parti cipants to consider how culturally specific systems of knowledge were expr essed and transformed under emergent rubrics of what would become known as religion\, science\, and law. We will likewise reflect on how these ideas animated the creation and maintenance of institutions of governance and k nowledge production both in the Caribbean and extending beyond it. This co nference grants an opportunity to weigh how the globalization of the early Caribbean marked historical changes in beliefs and ideas but also witness ed continuities that cut across the 1492 divide. In the process\, a multit ude of convictions about spiritual\, natural\, corporal\, social and polit ical order helped shape (and were reshaped by) encounters in the Basin.\n\ nSpeakers\nLarissa Brewer-García\, University of Chicago\nPablo F. Gómez \, University of Wisconsin\, Madison\nAlexander Mazzaferro\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nElise A. Mitchell\, Swarthmore College\nJosé R . Oliver\, Institute of Archaeology\, University College London\nDaniel Ra fiqi\, Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow\nJessica Vance Roitman\, Vrije U niversiteit Amsterdam\nCasey Schmitt\, Cornell University\nOwen Stanwood\, Boston College\nMiguel A. Valerio\, University of Maryland\, College Park \n\n\n\nAbout the 2024–25 Core Program: Early Global Caribbean\nThe Cari bbean has been a site of global interaction and dramatic change for centur ies. Although consideration of the impact of the forces of globalization o n the region often focuses on the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-centuries era of sugar and slaves\, Caribbean people’s engagement with those forces lo ng predates the period of the plantation complex. Yet a concerted reckonin g with earlier global dimensions of Caribbean history\, especially one tha t considers recent advances in scholarly understandings of Indigenous and early colonial histories of the region\, has yet to be accomplished. This cycle of conferences and events will serve as an important catalyst for in ter-disciplinary dialogue that will move Caribbean studies towards centeri ng transformations in the region’s societies\, cultures\, ideas\, and en vironments during a period that is conventionally assumed to be prefatory to the histories that followed in its wake.\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\nAll t imes listed in Pacific Standard Time\n\nFriday\, February 21\n\n\n9:30 a.m .\nCoffee and Registration\n\n10:00 a.m.\nDirector’s Welcome\nCarla Gard ina Pestana\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nIntroductory Remar ks\nCarla Gardina Pestana\, University of California\, Los Angeles and Gab riel de Avilez Rocha\, Brown University\n\nPanel 1: Indigenous Flux\nChair : Brett Rushforth\, The Huntington Library\n\n10:15 a.m.\nJosé R. Oliver\ , Institute of Archaeology\, University College London\n“Genocide\, Ethn ogenesis &\; Creolization in the Greater Antilles\, XIV-XVIth Centuries ”\n\n10:45 a.m.\nAlexander Mazzaferro\, University of California\, Los A ngeles\n“Hurricanes and Hammocks: Kalinago Knowledge and the Unsettlemen t of St. Christopher”\n\n11:15 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n11:45 a.m.\nCoffee Br eak\n\nPanel 2: Crucibles of War and Dispossession\nChair: Andrew Apter\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n12:00 p.m.\nCasey Schmitt\, Corn ell University\n“Captive-Taking and Human Trafficking in the Seventeenth -Century Caribbean”\n\n12:30 p.m.\nOwen Stanwood\, Boston College\n“Co rsairs and Colonists: The French (Protestant) Battle for the Greater Carib bean\, 1553-1573”\n\n1:00 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n1:30 p.m.\nLunch\nExhibit of Clark Library materials in the North Book Room\n\nPanel 3: Knowing Bodi es\nChair: Daniel Livesay\, Claremont McKenna College\n\n3:00 p.m.\nPablo F. Gómez\, University of Wisconsin\, Madison\n“Early Black Caribbean Wo rlds and the Imagination of Modern Corporeality”\n\n3:30 p.m.\nElise A. Mitchell\, Swarthmore College\n“Morbid Geographies: Quarantine and the S eventeenth-Century Slave Trade to the Caribbean”\n\n4:00 p.m.\nDiscussio n\n\n4:30 p.m.\nReception\n\nSaturday\, February 22\n\n9:30 a.m.\nCoffee a nd Registration\n\nPanel 4: Racial Imaginaries\nChair: Felix Jean-Louis\, University of California\, Irvine\n\n10:00 a.m.\nDaniel Rafiqi\, Ahmanson- Getty Postdoctoral Fellow\n“'Condemned to finish my days in the Americas ': Huguenot Deportees' Experiences in the French Caribbean\, 1687–89”\ n\n10:30 a.m.\nLarissa Brewer-García\, University of Chicago\n"Slavery\, Maternity\, and Salvation: Senegambian Reflections on Loss and Solace in S eventeenth-Century Cartagena de Indias"\n\n11:00 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n11:30 a.m.\nCoffee Break\n\nPanel 5: Diasporic Spiritualities\nChair: Arrannè Rispoli\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n11:45 a.m.\nJessica Va nce Roitman\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\n“West of Zion: Establishing Religious Rigor in the Jewish Caribbean”\n\n12:15 p.m.\nMiguel A. Valeri o\, University of Maryland\, College Park\n"African Catholics?: Black Conf raternities in the Early Spanish Caribbean"\n\n12:45 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n1 :15 p.m.\nProgram concludes\n\n\n\nThe conference is free to attend with a dvance registration. It will be held in-person at the Clark Library and li vestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. Registration will close on M onday\, February 17. No registration is required to watch the livestream. Seating is limited at the Clark Library\; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.\nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: Richard Blome’s The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America… (London: Print ed by H. Clark\, for D. Newman\, 1687). 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