3:30 - 4:00: COFFEE BREAK
4:00 – 6:00 pm: Panel 4: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CARIBBEAN HISTORY, PT. 2
Founders College Senior Common Room
Presenters: Thor Burnham, York University
‘Marriage Records in Port-au-Prince: The Genesis of a Foreign Dominated
Merchant Elite, 1850-1871.’
Audra Diptee, University of Toronto
‘Age, Gender and Ethnicity in the Slave Trade to Jamaica, 1775-1807’
Dawn Blissett, York University
‘Methods of Discipline and Punishment in Barbados and Jamaica,
circa 1834-1900’.
Oscar Grandio Moraguez, York University
‘West Central Africa and the Cuban Slave Trade: Trends in Volume and
Regional Distribution (1790-1867).’
Chair & Moderator: Juanita De Barros, McMaster University
6:00-6:30 Closing Session
8:00 CLOSING RECEPTION
28 Oriole Gardens
SPONSORS:
•Social Science and Humanities Research Council
•Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts
•Office of the Vice-President, Academic
•Division of Humanities
•Department of History
•Office of the Master, Founders College
•Office of Human Rights and Equity
•Graduate History Students Association
pan-caribbean perspectives on the atlantic world:
a workshop on historiography and methodology
Thursday 14th October to Saturday 16th October, 2004
Founders College, York University
Hosted by:
The Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora
The Text and Testimony Collective
Thursday 14th October 2004
5:30pm: Registration
6:30pm: OPENING REMARKS
Founders College Senior Common Room
Chair: Professor Michele Johnson, Department of History
Professor David Trotman, Department of History/Division of Humanities
Professor Robert Drummond, Dean, Faculty of Arts
Professor Bob Wakabayashi, Chair, Department of History
Professor Andrea Davis, Coordinator, Latin American and
Caribbean Studies Programme
Keynote Speaker: Professor Gordon Rohlehr,
University of the West Indies (St. Augustine)
Lecture: “Between Literature and History: A Personal Encounter”
8:00 RECEPTION
Founders College Assembly Hall
Friday 15th October, 2004
9:00-9:30am: Registration
Founders College Senior Common Room
9:30am -12:30pm: PANEL 1: SLAVERY & EMANCIPATION
Founders College Senior Common Room
Presenters: Gad Heuman, University of Warwick
Francisco Scarano, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alex Van Stipriaan, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Discussant: Franklin Knight, The Johns Hopkins University
Chair & Moderator: Paul Lovejoy, York University
12:30 – 2:00pm: LUNCH- Founders College Master’s Dining Room
2:00-5:00pm: PANEL 2: AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY
Founders College Senior Common Room
Presenters: Bridget Brereton, University of the West Indies
Matthew Smith, University of the West Indies
Aline Helg, Université de Genève
Rosemarijn Hoefte, Royal Institute of South East Asian &
Caribbean Studies
Chair & Moderator: Michele Johnson, York University
7:00 pm DINNER
Founders College Assembly Hall
Saturday 16th October, 2005
9:00am -12:00pm: PANEL 3: COLONIALISM & DECOLONIZATION
Founders College Senior Common Room
Presenters: Nigel Bolland, Colgate University
Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University
Blanca Silvestrini, University of Connecticut
Gert Oostindie, Royal Institute of South East Asian & Caribbean Studies
Discussant: Brian Moore, Colgate University
Chair & Moderator: Andrea A. Davis, York University
12:00 – 1:30pm: LUNCH - Founders College Master’s Dining Room
1:30 - 3:30 pm: Panel 4: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CARIBBEAN HISTORY, PT. 1
Founders College Senior Common Room
Presenters: Alejandra Bronfman, University of British Columbia
‘Radio, Technology and Transformation in the Caribbean.’
Linda M. Rupert, Duke University,
‘The Role of Inter-imperial Contraband Trade in the Development of
Pan-Caribbean Networks: The Case of Curaçao’.
Rosalie Smith McCrea, University of Ottawa
‘Caribbeana's Hybrid Muse: Creole Visual and Material Cultures in the Making, 1660-1840’.
Chair & Moderator: Patrick Taylor, York University