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Panel #1: Looking Forward by Turning Back: A Panel Commemorating the Work of Mary Turner, Tony Martin, Teresita Martínez-Vergne, and Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Bridget Brereton, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, “Mary Turner and West Indian Historiography, 1913-1931” (PDF Download)

Kate Quinn, Institute of the Americas, University College London, “Mary Turner and the Making of the West Indies” (PDF Download)

Jerome Egger, Anton de Kom University of Suriname, “Tony Martin and Teaching Caribbean History: The Full Package, the Guyanas Included” (PDF Download)

Fernando Picó, Universidad de Puerto Rico, “Teresita Martínez’s Contribution to Nineteenth-Century Historiography” (PDF Download)

Panel #2: Gender, Migration and Citizenship in the Making of the French Atlantic

Robin Mitchell, DePaul University, “Le cas particulier qui regarde les Négresses :
The Black Female Body in the Making of Eighteenth-Century French Subjectivity & Citizenship” (PDF Download)

Jennifer Palmer, University of Georgia, “Different Freedoms: Gender and Emancipation in Eighteenth-Century France” (PDF Download)

Sue Peabody, Washington State University, “Charles Auguste Bissette and the Police des Noirs in the Nineteenth Century” (PDF Download)

Lorelle Semley, College of the Holy Cross, “Crisis and the Carnivalesque in the Little Paris of the Caribbean” (PDF Download)

Panel #3: Fighting for Freedom

Maria Alessandra Bollettino, Framingham State University, “‘Proper Instruments for Carrying on War’: Black Soldiers and the British Empire in the Seven Years’ War in the West Indies” (PDF Download)

Edward Rugemer, Yale University, “Fear or Security? Slaveholder Proposals to Arm Black Men in Jamaica and South Carolina during the American Revolution” (PDF Download)

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Howard University, “Abolition’s Concaternation in the 1848 Caribbean” (PDF Download)

Panel #4: Space and Mobility in the Greater Caribbean

Cynthia Bouton, Texas A&M University, “Famine Within, Foodstuffs Without: The Politics of Provisioning in Revolutionary Saint-Dominigue” (PDF Download)

Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Texas A&M University, “Suspect or Safe?: Demarcating Mobility in the Restoration-Era French Atlantic” (PDF Download)

Molly Warsh, University of Pittsburgh, “Networks of Labor and Exploitation: The Early Caribbean and the Global Iberian World” (PDF Download)

Laurie Wood, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Law, “Murder on the Road from Trou-au-Chat: Criminal Justice between Plantation and Port in Martinique” (PDF Download)

Panel #5: Imperio y el Conocimiento en el Caribe Español

Juan R. González Mendoza, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, “‘El conocimiento profundo de la Ysla en todos sus Ramos y la instrucción en la Ciencia Política’: La construcción de la Patria y las elecciones constitucionales de 1812 en SanGermán, Puerto Rico” (PDF Download)

Francisco Scarano, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Doctors and Peasants at the Intersection of Empires:  Prologue to the Hookworm Campaigns in Puerto Rico, 1898-1904” (PDF Download)

Nora L. Rodriguez Vallés, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Bayamón, “Los imaginarios turísticos caribeños: Puerto Rico” (PDF Download)

David Sartorius, University of Maryland, “Uncommon Winds: Race, Passports, and the Politics of Travel in Nineteenth-Century Cuba” (PDF Download)

Panel #6: Les territoires de l’histoire antillaise : Espaces? Spécificités? Temporalités?

Roméo Terral, Caroline Seveno, Université Antilles Guyane, laboratoire AIHP, “L’extension urbaine des principales villes aux Antilles françaises des origines de la colonisation jusqu’à la fin des Trente Glorieuses (XVIIe-XXe siècles)” (PDF Download)

Maël Lavenaire, Gregory Beriet, Université Antilles Guyane, laboratoire AIHP, “ Deux aspects de l’étude historique de publiques dans l’espace Caraïbe, de la période coloniale à la période post-coloniale (XIXe-XXe siècles)” (PDF Download)

Catherine Losier, “Les Fluctuations Économiques de la Guyane au Cours du XVIIIe Siécle.  Un Réseau Implanté dans le Territoire Commercial Atlantique” (PDF Download)

Anne Pajard, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, “Manioc.org : des ressources numériques pour les historiens de la Caraïbe” (PDF Download)

Panel #7:  Contested Boundaries of Nation, Diaspora, Empire

Christina Mobley, Ph.D. Candidate, Duke University, “‘Christian, not Christian Anymore’: Central Africans, Haitian Vodou, and the Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804” (PDF Download)

Anne Eller, Yale University, “‘Foreign ownership is a live issue’: Economic Nationalism in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, 1844-1865” (PDF Download)

Jean-Sébastien Guibert, Ph.D., laboratoire AIHP-GEODE, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, “Les travailleurs de la mer : esclaves, libres de couleurs, libres et la mer aux Antilles aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles à travers l’exemple de la Guadeloupe” (PDF Download)

Panel #8: Managing Deviance in the Caribbean
Fredrik Thomasson, Upsalla University, “Creo[law]zation? Making justice at Swedish Saint Barthélemy” (PDF Download)

Jonathan Dalby, University of the West Indies, Mona, “Stereotypes and Beyond: Female Criminality in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1835-1899” (PDF Download)

Leonard Smith, University of Birmingham, “Confronting Abuses: The Scandal of the Kingston Lunatic Asylum, 1858-1861” (PDF Download)

Curtis Wallace, Graduate Student, University of the West Indies, Mona, “‘The Crown’s Colonial Builders?’: The Story of two West Indian Police Officers” (PDF Download)

Panel #9: Political Activism and the Definition of Citizenship

Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University, “Agencia, mujeres afrodescendientes, honor y ciudadanía durante el fin de la colonia en la provincial de Caracas, 1790-1800” (PDF Download)

Raquel Alicia Otheguy, Ph.D. Candidate, State University of New York at Stony Brook, “The Directorio Central de la Raza de Color and the 1890s Civil Rights Campaign for Racially Integrated Public Education” (PDF Download)

Cleve McD. Scott, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, “Black Economic Enfranchisement in Colonial St. Vincent and the Grenadines: The Agricultural Credit Societies, 1910-1935” (PDF Download)

Afi Martin, Ph.D. Candidate, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, “When Black Power met Socialism: Women in the New-Left and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1972-1979” (PDF Download)

Panel #10: Histoire des femmes et du genre

Jessica Pierre Louis, Université des Antilles Guyane, Laboratoire AIHP, “Transgresser la barrière de couleur pour les femmes libres dans  la Martinique du XVIIIe siècle” (PDF Download)

Ivy Linzau, Université des Antilles Guyane, laboratoire AIHP, “‘Femmes “blanches’ de la Partie française de Saint-Domingue à la conquête de l’espace public, 1766-1776” (PDF Download)
Myriam Cottias, Directrice de recherches CNRS, CIRESC, “Mayotte Capécia : une femme des Antilles entre contraintes et stratégies” (PDF Coming Soon)

Panel #11: Cultural Power and Popular Culture

Christer Petley, University of Southampton, “Plantations and Homes: The Material Culture of the Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Elite” (PDF Download)

Margriet Fokken, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Groningen, “Dressing up for the Queen?: Material Culture and Hindustani Women’s Participation in Queensday Celebrations in Suriname between 1898 and 1940” (PDF Download)

Olivier Malo, Ph.D. Candidate, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, “Le Mayolè et les luttes « traditionnelles » des Antilles Françaises à la fin du vingtième siècle, comme mémoire en action de l’esclavage et de la traite négrière” (PDF Download)

Alejandra Bronfman, University of British Columbia, “Voice: Broadcasting and the Politics of Creole in Jamaica and Haiti” (PDF Download)

Panel #12:  The Impact of the Congress of Vienna

Michael Zeuske, University of Cologne, Germany, “El impacto de los movimientos de independencia en Venezuela. ‘Libertos’ y ‘Creoles’ de Venezuela en Europa antes, durante y después del Congreso de Viena” (PDF Download)

Florian Kerschbaumer, Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt, Austria, “‘They speak of the darkness in which we have kept Africa’: The Public Discussions about the Slave Trade at the Congress of Vienna 1814/15” (PDF Download)

Antonio Gaztambide, Universidad de Puerto Rico, “El impacto de las Cortes de Cádiz y del Congreso de Viena en los orígenes del nacionalismo caribeño” (PDF Download)

Armando de Garcia de la Torre, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, “French Tobago and Spanish Trinidad in the Age of Revolution” (PDF Download)

Michael Toussaint, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, “Manifest Destiny or Agenda Continuity: Contextualising British Imperial Policy in the Southern Caribbean before and after Vienna” (PDF Download)

Panel #13: The Caribbean and World War I

Gusti-Klara Gaillard-Pourchet, Université d’Etat d’Haïti,”La Première Guerre mondiale et l’influence française en Haïti” (PDF Download)

Gérard LaFleur, Archives Départementales de la Guadeloupe, “La 1ère Guerre Mondiale Guadeloupe dans la Presse” (PDF Download)

Anne Lebel, Archives Départementales de la Guadeloupe, “Comment écrire l’histoire des soldats guadeloupéens morts pour la France pendant la Première Guerre mondiale?” (PDF Download)

Jacques Dumont, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, “La figure de l’ennemi : les Antilles et la Première Guerre Mondiale” (PDF Download)

Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma, “The First World War and the US Imperial Declension in the Caribbean” (PDF Download)

Panel #14: Gender and Sexuality in the Greater Caribbean

Jenny Shaw, University of Alabama, “Faith and Family in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Race, and Power on the Peers Plantation” (PDF Download)

Randy Browne, Xavier University, “Slavery and the Politics of Marriage in Berbice, 1819-1834” (PDF Download)

Clara Palmiste, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, “L’élaboration d’une pensée féministe sous domination : le cas de la République dominicaine dans les années 1920” (PDF Download)

Takkara Brunson, Morgan State University, “Historicizing Black Women’s Activism: The Case of Cuba, 1902-1958″ (PDF Download)