Schedule
All Sessions will meet in Room 240 Franklin Center
Friday, April 13
9:30-9:45 am: opening remarks
Michaeline Crichlow and Sean Metzger
9:45-10:45 am: keynote 1
Achille Mbembe, "The Idea of South Africa and the Question of Freedom in the Southern Atlantic Frontier"
10:45-12:15 pm: panel 1
Rebecca Scott, “Itinerant Citizenship: Defending Dignity in the Worlds Made by Slavery”
Sandra Richards, “Space, Water, Memory: The Transatlantic Slave Trade”
12:15-1:15 pm: lunch
1:15-2:45 pm: panel 2
Mario Blaser,"My Home, Our Home Or Your Home!!?: Placing the Modern Subject"
Natsu Taylor Saito, “The Power of Naming: Freedom, Manifest Destiny, and the Legacy of American Settler Colonialism”
2:45-4:15 pm: panel 3
Tejaswini Niranjana, “Musical Subjects from Across and Beyond the Atlantic” + film screening
Saturday, April 14
9-10 am: keynote 2
Saskia Sassen
10-11:30 am: panel 4
Tejumola Olaniyan, “Thinking Afro-Futures: Epistemic Histories”
Michaeline Crichlow and Patricia Northover, “Homing Modern Freedoms - A Sketch of a Method for Theorizing ‘C/creolization’ in Atlantic History and Beyond”
11:30-12:30 pm: lunch
12:30-2:00 pm: panel 5
Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, “Paris, Cuba: The Jungle meets
« mondialisation »”
Sean Metzger, “Utterly Unsettling: Potential Implications of Chinese Cuban Cultural Production”
2:00-3:30 pm: panel 6
Vicente Rafael, "The Afterlife of Empire: Sovereignty and Revolution in the Spanish Philippines"