Panel #1: Ethnicity and Identity in Caribbean Context
Etnicidad e Identidad en el Contexto del Caribe
Ethnicité et identité en contexte des Caraïbes

Bethan Fisk, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto, “Approaching the Sacred: Blasphemies of People of Color in late Colonial Caribbean New Granada”
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James Dator, Goucher College, “Frank Travels: Enslaved Cosmopolitanism in the Early Eighteenth-Century British Leeward Islands”
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Jessica Krug, George Washington University, “Social Dismemberment, Social (Re)membering: Obeah Idioms, Kromanti Identities, and the Trans-Atlantic Politics of Memory, c. 1675-Present”
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Philippe Girard, McNeese University, “Editing the Memoir(s) of Toussaint Louverture”
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Panel #2: Sixteenth-Nineteenth Century Maya in Belize
16e au 19e siècle Maya à Belize
16 al siglo 19 Maya en Belice

John Morris, Associate Director of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belize, “Prehispanic Maya Communities in Belize during the 16th and 17th Centuries”

Jaime Awe, Director of Archaeology, National institute of Culture and History, Belize, “Seventeenth-Century Maya—Spanish Interaction in the Roaring Creek Valley, Belize”
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Angel Cal, University of Belize, “Mercantile Capitalism and Rural Folk in Nineteenth-Century Belize: Peasants, Rancheros and Rural Entrepreneurs in Commercial Agriculture”

Panel #3: Diversity of Labor during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
La diversité du travail au cours des XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Diversidad de Trabajo durante los siglos XVI y XVII

Erin Stone, Ph.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt University, “The Search for Indigenous Slaves in the Circum-Caribbean: The Key to New World Exploration and Conquest”
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John Coakley, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Jamaica’s Slave Sellers: The Inter-Imperial Slave Trade in Jamaica, 1670-1692”
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Eric Otremba, Macalester College, “Workhouses, Barracoons, and other Reform Projects of the Seventeenth-Century English Caribbean”
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Justin Roberts, Dalhousie University, “Surrendering Surinam: Competing Visions of Expansion in the Early English Caribbean and the Treaty of Breda, 1640-1670”
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Panel #4: Lines of Power in Caribbean Slavery
Líneas de Poder en la Esclavitud del Caribe
Lignes de force dans les Caraïbes

Roderick McDonald, Rider University, “Sex, Power and Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Dominica”
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Christine Walker, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan, “An ‘Unkind, Unquiet and Turbulent Wife’: Gender, Slavery and the Boundaries of Authority in Colonial Jamaica”
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Royline Williams-Fontenelle, Graduate Student, University of Oklahoma, “Beneath the Veil of Slavery: Black Ingenuity, Technological Space and the Antiguan Slave”
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Jeanette Corniffe, Ph.D. Candidate, University of the West Indies, Mona, “The Changing Patterns of Large Landholders in Westmoreland , Jamaica, 1754 to 1833”
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Panel #5: Explaining Health and Sickness in Caribbean Societies
Explicando Salud y Enfermedad en las Sociedades del Caribe
Expliquer la santé et la maladie dans les sociétés des Caraïbes

Kristen Block, Florida Atlantic University, “Dirt-eating and Despair in the Colonial Caribbean”
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Pablo Gomez, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Blackening the Enlightenment: Inmunización before Vacunación in the Eighteenth Century Spanish Caribbean”
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Ann Zulawski, Smith College, “Puerta de Tierra, Puerto Rico: Poverty, Health and Urban Development in a Caribbean City, c. 1880-1930”
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Panel #6: Production, Trade, and the Creation of Regional Economies
Producción, Comercio, y la Creación de Economías Regionales
La production, le commerce et la création d’économies régionales

Jennifer Anderson, Stony Brook University, “Mapping the Politics of Mahogany in Belize, 1786-1814”
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Abby Schreiber, Ph.D. Candidate, Ohio State University, “The Role of Baltimore Merchants in Caribbean Material Culture, 1790-1830”
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Victor Wilson, Ph.D. Candidate, Åbo Akademi University, “Saint Barthélemy as a Caribbean Free Port, 1784-1820”
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Ale Pålsson, Ph.D. Candidate, Stockholm University, “Investing in Sweden:Naturalization of Foreign Merchants in St. Barthélemy”
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Panel #7: Organizations and Clubs as Cultural Brokers
Organizaciones y Clubes como Agentes Culturales
Les organisations et les clubs que les courtiers culturels

John Garrigus, University of Texas, “A secret brotherhood? The Question of Black Freemasonry before and during the Haitian Revolution”
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Virginia Gould, Tulane University, “That the Gospel Might be Preached to the Poor: The Sisters of the Holy Family in Belize”
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Alison Okuda, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University, “Crossing Oceans and Cultures in London: Narratives of Music, Literature and Perspective”
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Tyesha Maddox, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University, “Invisible Immigrants: Anglo-Phone Caribbean Immigrants in the U.S., 1850s-1930s”
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Lauren Poluha, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles, “Negotiating Garifuna Ethnicity through Religious Music”
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Panel #8: Complicating Colonialism in Puerto Rico
Para Complicar el Colonialismo en Puerto Rico
Pour compliquer colonialisme à Porto Rico

Anne Macpherson, The College at Brockport, State University of New York, “‘The Law Has Enflamed the Whole Island’: The Fair Labor Standards Act in Puerto Rico, 1938-40”
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Geoff Burrows, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, “Hurricane-Proof Housing Construction and the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration”
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Teresita Levy, Lehman College, City University of New York, “The Puerto Rican Farmers’ Association (Asociación de Agricultores Puertorriqueños – AAP) and the Agricultural Relief Act of 1933”
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Katherine L. Caldwell, University of Denver, “Married Women’s Nationality in Puerto Rico and the Transformation of Citizenship in the Twentieth Century”
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Panel #9: Emancipation as a Lived Process: Toward a New Genealogy of Freedom in the Caribbean
La Emancipación como un Proceso Vivido: Hacia una Nueva Genealogía de la Libertad en el Caribe
L’émancipation comme un processus vécu: Vers une nouvelle généalogie de la liberté dans les Caraïbes

Ebony Jones, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University, “Ironic Twists of Fate: Slave Rebellion, Banishment, and Freedom”
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Max Mishler Ph.D. Candidate, New York University, “New Geographies of Caribbean Freedom: “French Negroes” and Gradual Emancipation in New York”
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Nathalie Pierre, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University, “Bartering Sovereignty: British Merchants and Competing Haitian Governments, 1806-1813″
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Shauna Sweeney, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University, “Provisioning Freedom: Subsistence Cultivation and the Transition to Free Labor in Jamaica, 1833-1836”
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Gad Heuman, University of Warwick, “Slavery, Emancipation and Apprenticeship in the Caribbean”
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Panel #10: In the Fires of Hope: Federalism and Independence in the Caribbean
En los Fuegos de la Esperanza: el Federalismo y la Independencia del Caribe
Dans les feux de l’espoir: le fédéralisme et l’indépendance de les Caraïbes

Gelien Matthews, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, “Lyrics to Build a Nation: The Independence Calypso Competition of Trinidad and Tobago 1962”
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Rita Pemberton, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, “A Recurring Decimal: Tobago’s Constitutional Experience, 1962-2002”
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Ronald Noel, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, “The coming of Blaxploitation Films to Trinidad and Tobago from 1970 to 1975: An Impressionist examination of their Impact on the People and a Call to break their Relative Silence in the Historiography”
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Renee A. Nelson, Ph.D. Candidate, University of the West Indies, Mona, “The West Indian Press and the Federal Idea: 1948-1957”
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Panel #11: Definitions and Inclusions: The Impact of Twentieth-Century Migration in the Caribbean
Definiciones y Inclusiones: El Impacto del siglo XX la migración en el Caribe
Définitions et Inclusions: l’impact du XXe siècle la migration dans les Caraïbes

Charles do Rego, National Archaeological Anthropological Memory Management, “Inclusion and Exclusion of the Portuguese Immigrants in 20th-century Curaçao”
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Rose Mary Allen, University of the Netherlands, Antilles, “Twentieth Century Migration from the English-speaking Caribbean to Curaçao: Inclusion and Exclusion via Discourse”
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Philip Janzen, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Caribbean Colonizers: Assimilation, Black Internationalism, and Diasporic Imagination, 1880-1960”
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Panel #12: The Caribbean at Arms
El Caribe de Armas
Les Caraïbes d’armes

Eric McDonald, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Houston, “Military Men and the Solidification of the Colonial Elite in Seventeenth Century Barbados”
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Miriam Martin, Ph.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt University, “The Role of Black Militias in Anglo/Spanish Geopolitics of the 18th-century Atlantic World”
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Kameika Murphy, Clark University, “‘A more eligible situation for their business’: Black Loyalists and their transformations in Kingston, 1782-1823”
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Panel #13: Caribbean Law, Courts and Crime
Derecho del Caribe, los Tribunales y el Delito
Droit des Caraïbes, les tribunaux et le crime

Juan J. Ponce-Vázquez, St. Lawrence University, “Partner, Accomplice, and Chattel: The Relationship between Masters and Slaves in Santo Domingo in the Seventeenth Century”
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Arnaud Clermidy, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, “Les esclaves dans les sources judiciaires en Guadeloupe d’après le registre de la cour d’appel de la Guadeloupe (ADG 2 U 6 et 2 U 7)”
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Tyler Parry, Ph.D. Candidate, University of South Carolina, “’Performed among Themselves’: Marriage, Ritual and Power in the African Diaspora”
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Oneil Hall, Ph.D. Candidate, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, “The Cayman Islands, A Colony of A Colony; The Imperial Act of 1863”
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Panel #14: Nation, Alterity, and Migration in Post-Colonial Societies
Nation, Alterity, and Migration in Post-Colonial Societies
Nation, altérité et de la migration dans les sociétés post-coloniales

Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh,“Disappearing in El Dorado? British Caribbean Migrants in Venezuela, 1840s-1940s”
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Elisabeth Cunin, URMIS, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, “Administrer les étrangers à la marge de la nation. Migrations de travailleurs afro-béliziens dans le Territoire de Quintana Roo”
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Maud Laëthier, Université Paris Diderot, Université d’État d’Haïti, “Migration et expressions d’une appartenance nationale : d’une marginalité à l’autre. L’exemple des Haïtiens de Guyane”
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Caree Banton, Ph.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt University, “Migration from Barbados to Liberia: Shifting Frontiers of Freedom, Citizenship and Nationhood in Caribbean Post-Emancipation”
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