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Panel #2: Perspectives on the Future of Caribbean History

“‘Taking the bull by the horn’: Charting New Directions for Sustainable and Exciting Futures for History and the Humanities. Glenford Howe, UWI Open Campus, Halima-Sa’adia Kassim, UWI Office of Planning and David Rampersad, Office of the Vice-Chancellor UWI
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“The CXC Task Force on History”. Alan Cobley and Janice Mayers, UWI Cave Hill Campus
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“The Need for African History in the Anglophone Caribbean”. Richard Goodridge, UWI Cave Hill Campus
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Panel #3: Emancipation and its Immediate Aftermath

“Anxiety and Self-Assurance in Negotiating Emancipation in Bermuda’s House of Assembly”, Sarah Hannon and Neil Kennedy, Memorial University
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“Free of Everything Save Independence: Sovereignty and Belonging in Rural Nineteenth Century Haiti”, Winter Schneider, UCLA
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“An Overlooked Land Transfer Agency in post Slavery: Land Speculators in Barbados, 1840-1870”, Woodville Marshall, UWI Cave Hill Campus
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“An Expedition for Freedom: Messrs. Peck and Prince in Trinidad and Guiana, 1839-40”, Dexter Gabriel, University of Connecticut
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Panel #4: Caribbean Archives: The Interplay between History and DigitalArchives

“New Sources and Wider Access for Records of Caribbean Slave Societies”, Angela Sutton, Vanderbilt University
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“Processing the Barbados Synagogue Restoration Project Records: Reflections and Opportunities for Future Projects”, Amalia Levi, The HeritEdge Connection Inc.
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“Because the Future of Caribbean History Lives in Rereading its Past: Digitizing the Barbados Mercury Gazette”, Lissa Paul, Brock University
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“Various Initiatives in the Barbados Archives Department”, Ingrid Thompson, Barbados Archives
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Panel #5: Special Roundtable — Hurricane Impacts on Caribbean Educational & Heritage Sites: Urgent Needs and Long Term Challenges

Raymond Laureano Ortiz, Centro Estudios Avandzados, Puerto Rico

Molly Perry, University of the Virgin Islands

Natasha Lightfoot, Columbia University

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Panel #7: Network News: Comparative Black Transnationalism Before and After Emancipation

“Bordeaux’s Lost Caribbean Roots”, Lorelle Semley, College of the Holy Cross
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“Networks of Liberty and Equality in the Revolutionary Caribbean”, Michelle Reid-Vazquez, University of Pittsburgh
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“‘So Far to Leeward’: Eliza Moore’s Freedom Journey as Imperial Subject and Fugitive Cosmopolitan”, Natasha Lightfoot, Columbia University
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“‘Dominica’s Salvation’: Seeking Caribbean Prosperity at the Close of the Nineteenth Century”, Anne Eller, Yale University
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“Defining Boundaries: The NAACP in the Caribbean, 1910-30”, Caroline Emmons, Hampden Sydney College
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Panel #8: Slavery, Power and Authority

“‘Duro es confesarlo…’: The Emotional Undercurrents and Comparative Importance of Cuban Slaveholder Candour”, Liana Valerio, University of Warwick
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“Drivers, Enslaved Women, and Gendered Power on Caribbean Plantations”, Randy Browne, Xavier University
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“How Rumours of Slave Rebellion United the Black Diaspora, 1725-1745”, Justin Pope, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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“Refiguring the Fedon Rebellion of 1795 and its Source Base”, Kit Candlin, University of Newcastle
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POSTER SESSION A

“Sources to Tell Stories: First Day Covers of the Anglophone Caribbean”, Allison Ramsay, UWI St. Augustine Campus

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Panel #9: Out of Line: Confinement and Trapped Bodies

“Refuse Bodies, Disposable Lives: African Captives and Death in Ports During the Early Atlantic Slave Trade”, Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University
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“‘Reduced to Slavery’: Kidnapping and Illegal Enslavement in the Caribbean, 1830-60”, Randy Sparks, Tulane University
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“After Sale: Newly Enslaved Africans, Smallpox Quarantine and Re-Embarkation in the Eighteenth Century Caribbean”, Elise Mitchell, New York University
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“Locating Women in Archives of Pain”, Anasa Hicks, Florida State University
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Panel #10: Transplanting Cultures: Caribbean Movement and Identities

“Legal Transplantation in the British West Indies and the Reverberations thereof, 1500-1700s” Justine Collins, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
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“Pappo and the Breadfruit: Pacific Islands, Race and Slavery ca. 1793”, Kevin McDonald, Loyola Marymount University
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“Comparative Reproductions: The Family in Women’s Travel Writings in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800-60”, Rikki Bettinger, University of Houston
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“Neither Soldiers nor Warriors: The West India Regiments in the 1873-4 Anglo-Asante War and the Remaking of African-Caribbean Identities”, David Lambert, University of Warwick
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Panel #11: Public Health, Welfare, and Governance in the British Caribbean, 1860s-1970s

“Colonial Welfare and Girlhood: Girls’ Work and Lives at the Government Reformatory in Jamaica 1869 – 1937”, Shani Roper, Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey
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“The Moyne Commission: Health and Nation-Building in the British Caribbean”, Brittany Merritt, St. John’s University
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“‘Linking the Global and the Local’: Tackling Child Malnutrition in the Post-independent Anglophone Caribbean”, Henrice Altink, University of York
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POSTER SESSION B

“The Story of Cerasee: A Miraculous Plant”, Anthony Richards and Jeanette Allsopp, UWI, Cave Hill Campus
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Panel #12: Decolonisation and Identity in the Dutch-speaking 

“Jagernath Lachmon and India”, Peter Meel, Leiden University
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“Reconsidering Neglect and Erasure of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean Historiography”, Margo Groenewoud, University of Curaçao
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“Insurgent Intimacies: Black Radicalism and Sexual Revolution in the Dutch Atlantic, 1960s to 1970s”, Chelsea Schields, Elizabethtown College
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POSTER SESSION C

“From Mitigation to Expansion (1973-1985): The Evolution of the Barbados Petroleum Industry in the Wake of the 1973 Oil Crisis”, Sylvan Spooner, UWI Cave Hill Campus
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“The Physical Development of an Island through the Lens of Tourism”, Angelica Jackson, Parsons The New School
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“The Parts Unknown: An Examination of the Economic Progress of Trinidad’s Syrian /Lebanese Community 1910 – 1970”, Fiona Rajkumar, The University of Southern Caribbean
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Panel #13: Family and Gender in Slavery and Freedom

“The Existence or not of an Antillean Art Form (1923-1946): A Fragmented Recollection?”, Christelle Lozère-Bernard, AIHP-GEODE, Université des Antilles
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“Reparation and First Peoples in Trinidad (and Tobago?): (Re)making History Visible”, Godfrey Steele, UWI, St. Augustine Campus
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“The Politics of Change: Pedagogical Approaches to Caribbean Museum History and Curatorship”, Alissandra Cummins, Karen Brown and Anne’el Bain, Barbados Museum and Historical Society, University of St. Andrew’s and UWI St. Augustine Campus
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POSTER SESSION D

“The Parts Unknown: An Examination of the Economic Progress of Trinidad’s Syrian /Lebanese Community 1910 – 1970”, Fiona Rajkumar, The University of Southern Caribbean
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