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:341@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210226T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210226T160000 DTSTAMP:20210223T174108Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/emrg-wip/ SUMMARY:EMRG Works-in-Progress Sessions: Summer Mentorship Research Project s DESCRIPTION:-presented by Elizabeth M. Landers (UCLA)\nHosted by the Early Modern Research Group\n\nOnline event via Zoom\nFor Zoom registration deta ils\, please email the Early Modern Research Group.\n\nThe Graduate Certif icate in Early Modern Studies\, administered by the Center for 17th- &\ ; 18th-Century Studies\, offers UCLA graduate students an avenue to explor e the increasingly transnational and interdisciplinary nature of early mod ern studies through specially designated comparative courses and unique fe llowship and mentoring opportunities.\n\nStudents in the certificate progr am are eligible to apply for competitive Summer Mentorships\, which provid e financial support to complete one of the certificate requirements: a 25- page paper on an early modern studies topic of interdisciplinary breadth. The Summer Mentorship affords the opportunity for students to work closely with a Center/Clark Core Faculty member to develop their paper for presen tation at an academic conference or for potential publication.\n\nThe Ear ly Modern Research Group\, which meets under the auspices of the UCLA Cent er for 17th- &\; 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Mem orial Library\, invites you to attend this work-in-progress session featur ing presentations by two Summer Mentorship awardees. Following each presen tation\, the speakers and their faculty mentors welcome feedback from atte ndees during a collaborative discussion.\n\nElizabeth M. Landers will pres ent "Negotiating Tenuous Emancipation and Everyday Life: Rural Black Commu nities in 1799 St. Domingue." She is mentored by Carla Gardina Pestana\, D epartment Chair &\; Joyce Appelby Endowed Chair of America in the World \, Department of History.\n\nThis presentation examines the lives of St. D omingue’s rural black inhabitants as they navigated the fragile frontier between enslavement and tenuous emancipation in 1799. This study reconsid ers how colonial sources can inform archival silences by tracing material practices and rural black lifeways in the cotton-producing Artibonite regi on. It follows men\, women\, and children as they negotiated everyday life and claimed social spaces and autonomy. Their actions demonstrate not onl y resistance to domestic and labor regimes\; but also\, the means by which they claimed self-sufficiency and negotiated their own lifeways. This foc us on rural black communities offers an alternative perspective to the mor e familiar political narratives of the Haitian Revolution and the plantati on regime.\n\nElizabeth is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her research centers on the a nalysis of everyday life and the material realities that sustained margina lized communities throughout the broader Atlantic Caribbean during the ear ly modern period. Elizabeth's Master’s work in Latin American Studies ex plored the transfer of people\, practices\, and knowledge from St. Domingu e to Eastern Cuba during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Elizabeth hold s B.A.s from UCLA in History and French\, M.A.s from Loyola University Chi cago and UCLA\, and has studied at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Prior to her graduate studies at UCLA\, Elizabeth worked in the private sector in the U.S.\, Europe\, Asia\, N. Africa\, and Latin America\; and served i n public administration in Haiti.\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Cosponsored Event,Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR