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Tuesday, 20 September
5:00-7:30pm
2239 Lane Hall, 204 S. State Street
Artist Talk & Gallery Reception: Southern Saddlebags and Shotgun Houses
Beverly Buchanan (Artist)
In paintings, sculpture & drawings, Beverly Buchanan explores the image of the shack--the makeshift shelter commonly perched in the fields & along the back roadsides of the South.The mundane structure becomes an economic & cutural metaphor, "memorials" to people & places.
This exhibit is on display in the Lane Hall Gallery from 1 September - 15 December 2005, M-F, 8:00am-5:00pm.
For additional information on the artist: Beverly Buchanan
Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program & the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, with support from the School of Art and Design, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, Center for the Education of Women-Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Program in American Culture, & the Atlantic Studies Initiative.
Thursday, 29 September
4:00-6:00pm
100 Hutchins Hall, 625 South State Street
The Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture:
New Orleans: An American Pompeii
Lawrence N. Powell (History, Tulane University)
Discussants: Kevin Gaines (History; Center for Afroamerican and African Studies); Rebecca Scott (History; Law); Carroll Smith-Rosenberg (American Culture; Women's Studies)
Who owns the history of New Orleans, and what does that history tell us about how the city should be rebuilt?
Sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities
For additional information: humin@umich.edu or 734.936.3518
Friday, 30 September
2:30pm
Michigan League, Vandenberg Room (2d floor), 911 N. University
Colloquium: What Is The Atlantic?
Rebecca Scott (Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, UM)
Public Rights and Private Commerce: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Creole Itinerary
5:00pm
Shaman Drum Bookshop
311-315 S. State Street (734.662.7407)
Author Reception: Rebecca Scott
Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery
As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Degrees of Freedom compares and contrasts these two societies in which slavery was destroyed by war, and citizenship was redefined through social and political upheaval.
Thursday, 6 October
4:00pm
4448 East Hall, 525 East University
Vivian R. Shaw Lecture: Empire Building, Sexual Citizenship and Other Disciplinary Encounters
M. Jacqui Alexander (Women's Studies & Gender Studies, University of Toronto)
Sponsored by Women's Studies and The Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), with support from the Center for the Education of Women - Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Program in American Culture, & the Atlantic Studies Initiative.
Tuesday, 11 October
4:30-6:00pm
History, 1014 Tisch Hall
Lecture/Roundtable & Performance: Color Lines and Music Categories in Southern Louisiana: Cajun, Creole, Zydeco, Jazz, and "French Music"
Featuring Sara Le Menestrel (CNRS/École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales-Paris)
Presented by the Department of History with generous support from the Program in American Culture; Music of the United States of America (MUSA) Study Group, a project of the American Musicological Society; the Office of the Senior Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs; the Institute for Historical Studies; & the Atlantic Studies Initiative.
For additional information: Professor Rebecca Scott
Thursday, 13 October
4:00pm
Shaman Drum Bookshop
311-315 S. State Street (734.662.7407)
Author Reception: Ifeoma Nwankwo (English; Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, UM)
Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
Black Cosmopolitanism looks to the aftermath of the historical moment in the wake of the Haitian Revolution of 1804 to examine the disparities and similarities between the approaches to identity articulated by people of African descent in the United States, Cuba, & the British West Indies during the nineteenth century.
Friday-Saturday, 21-22 October
Michigan League, 911 N. University
Conference: Gender and Popular Culture, 1650-1750
This conference is made possible through the generous financial support of Thomson Gale and the following academic and administrative units at the University of Michigan: the departments of English, History, History of Art, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Theatre and Drama; the programs in American Culture, Comparative Literature, and Women's Studies; the Atlantic Studies Initiative, the Center for European Studies, the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the Institute for the Humanities, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, and the University Libraries.
For additional information: http://www.umich.edu/~gpcconf/
Contact: David Porter (dporter@umich.edu or 734.647.6750)
Friday, 9 December
CANCELED
4:30pm
Michigan League, Michigan Room (2d floor)
Colloquium: What Is The Atlantic?
Juan Flores (Sociology, Hunter College-CUNY)
Creolite in the Hood: Diaspora as Source and Challenge
With the generous support of the Latina/o Studies Program.
Winter 2006
Thursday, 9 February
4:30pm
Michigan League, Vandenberg Room (911 N. University, 2d floor)
Rescheduled from 9 December 2005
Colloquium: What Is The Atlantic?
Juan Flores (Sociology, Hunter College-CUNY)
Creolite in the Hood: Diaspora as Source and Challenge
With the generous support of the Latina/o Studies Program.
Wednesday, 15 February
7:00pm
Ann Arbor District Library
343 South Fifth Avenue, Ann Arbor (734.327.4265)
Living Stories, Storied Lives: Africa, Its Diaspora, and Beyond
This "storytelling" event will give us the tremendous opportunity to re-connect with, reenvision, and realize our memories, dreams, and identities through the storytelling performances of these inspiring and knowledgeable Griots, Elizabeth James (Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan), Antoine Kabwasa, & Merle Collins (Comparative Literature, University of Maryland) .
Additional information: http://www.aadl.org/events/list/?id=7433
Friday, 10 March
4:30pm
Michigan League, Kalamazoo Room (911 N. University, 2d floor)
Colloquium: What Is The Atlantic?
João Reis (History, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil)
Domingos Sodré, a Yoruba Priest in Bahia, Brazil, c. 1810s-1887
- & -
Saturday, 11 March
11:00am-1:00pm
Michigan League, Kalamazoo Room
Paper presentation (given in Portuguese):
África e Brasil Entre Margens: Aventuras e Desventuras do Africano Rufino José Maria, c.1822-1853
For additional information, & to obtain an advance copy of the paper: Latin American and Caribbean Studies, lacs.office@umich.edu or 734.763.0553.
Friday, 24 March
4:00pm
Palmer Commons (Life Sciences Comples, 100 Washtenaw Avenue; map)
The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies Zora Neale Hurston Lecture
Robert Farris Thompson (Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University)
Rumba, Samba, Mambo, Jazz: The Kongo Atlantic World
For additional information: Elizabeth James <ecnirp@umich.edu> or 734.764.5517
Monday, 27 March
4:30pm
Michigan League (911 N. University), Michigan Room (2d floor)
Colloquium: What Is The Atlantic?
Annalee Davis (Artist)
Off the Map: A look at the lives of undocumented migrants in the Southern Caribbean through sound, objects, and video
Co-sponsored with the Program in History of Art, with the generous support of the School of Art and Design, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, & Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Thursday, 30 March - Saturday, 1 April
Colloquium, co-sponsored by The University of Michigan and The University of Windsor, Canada
Slavery and Freedom in the Atlantic World: Statutes, Science, and the Seas
Thursday, 30 March
4:00-6:00pm
University of Windsor, Law School, Moot Court Room
401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Slavery and Freedom in the Great Lakes: An Atlantic World Perspective
Introduction: Steven Palmer (Department of History, University of Windsow) and Rebecca J. Scott (Department of History and Law School, University of Michigan)
Afua Cooper (Department of History, University of Toronto) Michael Witgen (Department of History and Program in American Culture, University of Michigan)
Comment: David Hancock (Department of History, University of Michigan); Rheem Bhadi (Law School, University of Windsor)
Friday, 31 March
University of Michigan, Institute for the Humanities, Osterman Commons Room (915 E. Washington, Rackham Building, Ann Arbor)
9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Welcome and Overview
Martha S. Jones (Department of History, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, Law School, University of Michigan)
10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Slavery and the Law
Alejandro delaFuente (Department of History, University of Pittsburgh)
Jean Hebrard (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France)
Richard Turits (Department of History and CAAS, University of Michigan)
Comment: Susanna Blumenthal (Law School, University of Michigan), Ariela Gross (Law School and Department of Histor, University of Southern California)
2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Law and the Meanings of Freedom
Laurent Dubois (Department of History, Michigan State University)
Myriam Cottias (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France)
Comment:
Martha S. Jones (Department of History, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, Law School, University of Michigan); Fernando Martínez (via video link, Centro Juan Marinello, Havana, Cuba)
Chair and comment: Ellen Katz (Law School, University of Michigan)
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m
University of Michigan, Michigan League, Hussey Room (911 N. University, Ann Arbor)
What is the Atlantic?
Empires and Islands: Re-envisioning the early Atlantic World; A Conversation
Discussant: Mamadou Diouf (Department of History and CAAS, University of Michigan); Michael Zeuske (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Moderator: Julius S. Scott (Department of History and CAAS, University of Michigan)
Saturday, 1 April
Radisson Hotel, 333 Riverside West, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
9:45– 10:00am
Welcome and Overview
Steven Palmer (Department of History, University of Windsor)
10:00am– 12:30pm
Slavery, Race and Science
Steven Palmer (Department of History, University of Windsor)
Reinaldo Funes (Fundación Antonio Nú ñ ez Jiménez, Havana, Cuba)
Comment: Alejandra Bronfman (Department of History, University of British Columbia); Alexandra Stern (Obstetrics and Gynecology and Program in American Culture, University of Michigan)
12:30– 2:00pm
Lunch Discussion--New Insights from the Archives: The Amistad in Cuba
Discussant: Michael Zeuske (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany); Orlando Garcia Martinez (Union Nacional de Artistas y Escritores de Cuba, Cienfuegos, Cuba)
2:30– 5:00pm
The Everyday Calculus of Freedom
Chair: Robert Whitney (Department of History and Politics, University of New Brunswick,Saint John)
Marial Iglesias (University of Havana, Havana, Cuba)
Ada Ferrer (Department of History, New York University)
Rebecca J. Scott (Department of History and Law School, University of Michigan)
Comment:
Catherine Legrand (Department of History, McGill University); Sueann Caulfield (Department of History, University of Michigan)
Sponsored by The Law in Slavery and Freedom Project, University of Michigan; Atlantic Studies Initiative, University of Michigan; Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan; and the University of Windsor.
Wednesday, 5 April
4:30pm
Michigan League, Hussey Room (911 N. University, 2d floor)
Colloquium: What Is The Atlantic?
Sidney Mintz (Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University)
Creolization: General and Specific Processes
With the generous support of the Department of Anthropology.
Thursday-Saturday, 11-13 May
Atlantic History Workshop: 'Recapricorning' the Atlantic:Luso-Brazilian and Luso-African Perspectives on the Atlantic World
The University of Michigan and Michigan State University will host the second of a series of workshops in Atlantic History. The workshop will be a forum for discussing new research on the history of the Lusophone South Atlantic. The workshop aims to generate discussion on how this research modifies, challenges, or confirms major trends in the scholarship on Atlantic History, which has focused primarily on the North Atlantic and the Caribbean. We will select eight participants and four commentators whose work represents a variety of approaches, periods, and regions.
Although we hope participants will receive funding from their institutions to cover the costs of travel, there will be financial support available, especially for scholars coming from outside the U.S.
Applicants should submit a cv, a draft version of the chapter or article they wish to present, and (if it is part of a longer work) a brief description of the work from which it is drawn, by January 30. Final versions of the chapters will be due by April 10. Submissions and oral presentations may be in English or Portuguese.
Application materials, which we prefer to receive electronically, and all inquiries, should be sent to atlantic@msu.edu or Lindsey Gish (Atlantic Workshop Coordinator), Department of History, 301 Morrill Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824. General information about the workshop, including last year's program, can be found at http://www.msu.edu/~atlantic.
The conference is sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Atlantic Studies Initiative, and the Department of History at the University of Michigan and the Department of History, the Center for African Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University. The conference is being organized collaboratively by Paulina Alberto, Sueann Caulfield, Paul Johnson, Julius Scott, and Rebecca Scott (of the University of Michigan) and Peter Beattie, Christine Daniels, Laurent Dubois, Walter Hawthorne, and Erica Windler (of Michigan State University).
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