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:472@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250412T163000 DTSTAMP:20250321T163357Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/early-global-caribbean-3/ SUMMARY:Early Global Caribbean: Conference 3: Materialities 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 tangible realities of daily life and the patterns of exchange in the Caribbean and the other Atlantic regions integrated into the Caribbean’s orbit enhance our understanding of the local dimensions of global process es that have long shaped the Caribbean Basin. This final conference will c onsider how the region’s early global histories may be tracked through t heir material manifestations in constructed and natural environments from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on the material s embedded and moving through Caribbean land- and waterscapes prompts line s of investigation about how historical interactions and social constructi ons of meaning were mediated across different historical moments. These in teractions and constructions can be explored through physical artifacts\, objects\, and living organisms. We will deliberate on how both the environ ment itself and the material cultural productions of the people living in the Basin were profoundly and continuously influenced by the advent of dif ferent groups\, the imposition of new agricultural regimes\, and a host of other aspects of quotidian life that persisted\, gained new forms\, or di sappeared. To what extent might the historical study of transformations in the circumstances of life in the Caribbean benefit from considering distr ibuted agencies of different human and non-human actors across time? What do considerations of materiality in or beyond traditional archives contrib ute to a global understanding of Caribbean history?\n\nSpeakers\nJacques A ymeric-Nsangou\, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Stu dies at Villa I Tatti / University of Zurich\nJoseph M.H. Clark\, Universi ty of Kentucky\nM. Dores Cruz\, Institute for African Studies\, University of Cologne\nKevin Dawson\, University of California\, Merced\nChristina M . Giovas\, Simon Fraser University\nKatherine Johnston\, Montana State Uni versity\nBeatriz Marín-Aguilera\, University of Liverpool\nNydia Pineda d e Ávila\, University of California\, San Diego\nReniel Rodríguez Ramos\, Universidad de Puerto Rico at Utuado\nMolly A. Warsh\, University of Pitt sburgh\n\n\n\nAbout the 2024–25 Core Program: Early Global Caribbean\nTh e Caribbean has been a site of global interaction and dramatic change for centuries. Although consideration of the impact of the forces of globaliza tion on the region often focuses on the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-centurie s era of sugar and slaves\, Caribbean people’s engagement with those for ces long predates the period of the plantation complex. Yet a concerted re ckoning with earlier global dimensions of Caribbean history\, especially o ne that considers recent advances in scholarly understandings of Indigenou s 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 inter-disciplinary dialogue that will move Caribbean studies towards c entering transformations in the region’s societies\, cultures\, ideas\, and environments during a period that is conventionally assumed to be pref atory to the histories that followed in its wake.\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\ nAll times listed in Pacific Daylight Time\n\nFriday\, April 11\n\n9:30 a. m.\nCoffee and Registration\n\n10:00 a.m.\nDirector’s Welcome\nCarla Gar dina Pestana\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nIntroductory Rema rks\nCarla Gardina Pestana\, University of California\, Los Angeles and Ga briel de Avilez Rocha\, Brown University\n\nPanel 1: Exchange Over Time\nC hair: Elizabeth Landers\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n10:15 a.m.\nReniel Rodríguez Ramos\, Universidad de Puerto Rico at Utuado\n“E ntangled Materialities in the Precolonial Caribbean Seascape: A Diachronic Perspective”\n\n10:45 a.m.\nJoseph M. H. Clark\, University of Kentucky \n“’In shadow of eternal spring‘: Local Climates and Atlantic Exchan ges in the Caribbean's 'Little Ice Age'”\n\n11:15 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n11 :45 a.m.\nCoffee Break\n\nPanel 2: Empire’s Origins\nChair: Susan Amusse n\, University of California\, Merced\n\n12:00 p.m.\nKevin Dawson\, Univer sity of California\, Merced\n“Underwater Empire: Enslaved Salvage Divers and the Making of the English Empire\, 1545-1700”\n\n12:30 p.m.\nM. Dor es Cruz\, Institute for African Studies\, University of Cologne\n“A View from the End of the World: São Tomé's Plantation Complex in the Origins of the Atlantic World and Modernity”\n\n1:00 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n1:30 p .m.\nLunch\nExhibit of Clark Library materials in the North Book Room\n\nP anel 3: Food and Labor on the Move\nChair: Robin Lauren Derby\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n3:00 p.m.\nChristina M. Giovas\, Simon Fra ser University\n“The World on a Plate: Early Global Influences on Indige nous Diet in Colonial Curaçao Revealed Through Stable Isotopes”\n(Co-au thored by Christine Conlan and Michael Richards\, Department of Archaeo logy\, Simon Fraser University\, and Claudia Kraan\, National Archaeolog ical Anthropological Memory Management\, Curaçao)\n\n3:30 p.m.\nMolly A. Warsh\, University of Pittsburgh\n“The Material Realities of Itinerancy in an Early Modern Caribbean Context”\n\n4:00 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n4:30 p .m.\nReception\n\nSaturday\, April 12\n\n9:30 a.m.\nCoffee and Registratio n\n\nPanel 4: Materiality of Freedom Struggles\nChair: José Monge Larrai n\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n10:00 a.m.\nBeatriz Marín-A guilera\, University of Liverpool\n“Cosmopolitan Seascapes: Slavery\, Re bellion\, and Solidarity”\n\n10:30 a.m.\nJacques Aymeric-Nsangou\, The H arvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti / University of Zurich\n“Angolares Marronages in São Tomé: Living Free on an Island of Enslaved from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century CE ”\n\n11:00 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n11:30 a.m.\nCoffee Break\n\nPanel 5: Repr esentations Across Space\nChair: Sal Nicolazzo\, University of California\ , Davis\n\n11:45 a.m.\nNydia Pineda de Ávila\, University of California\, San Diego\n“Distant Things Together? Moon Spots and the Mapping of Reso urces in the Caribbean World"\n\n12:15 p.m.\nKatherine Johnston\, Montana State University\n"Nursing in Treetops: Race\, Gender\, and Representation in the Early Modern Atlantic"\n\n12:45 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n1:15 p.m.\nPro gram concludes\n\n\n\nThe conference is free to attend with advance regist ration. It will be held in-person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. In-person registration will close on Mond ay\, April 7. No registration is required to watch the livestream. Seating is limited at the Clark Library\; walk-in registrants are welcome as spac e permits.\nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: Richard Blome’s The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America… (London: Printed by H . Clark\, for D. Newman\, 1687). 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