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Panel #2 LOC Panel “Dutch Caribbean Resistance & Resilience”

Aisha Leer, SKAI Curaçao, “Muhé na Kandela (Women on fire): Women’s Role in the Revolt of ‘Trinta di Mei’ 1969”
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Luc Alofs, University of Aruba, “The Political Impact of 30 May on the Separatist Movement on Aruba”
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Angela E. Roe, University of Curacao, “Flipping the Script: Resistance and Resilience in Three Generations of Diasporic Women”
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Charles doRego, Independent Researcher, “Charles doRego, Independent Researcher, “Participating far from Home: Testimonials from Dutch Antillean Students in Holland, May 1969”
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Panel #3 “Legal Reverberations in Caribbean History”

Justine Collins, Max Planck Institute, “Amelioration & Manumission: The Transplantations and Reverberations of English Property and Succession Laws in the British Caribbean 1770s to 1800”
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Ross Nedervelt, Florida International University, “Resisting Revolutionary Change: Bermudians and Bahamians’ Efforts to Continue the Pre-American Revolution British Atlantic World”
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Dexnell Peters, University of Oxford, “Resisting the Metropole: Inter Imperial Transitions in the Greater Southern Caribbean during the Revolutionary Era”
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Emily Whewell, Max Planck Institute, “Undesirable Subjects: Law and the Question of Subjecthood in Colonial Trinidad 1880 – 1930”
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Panel #4: “Itinerant Ideologies in the Twentieth Century Caribbean”

Kirwin Shaffer, Pennsylvania State University, Berks College, “Anarchists vs Yanquis: The Canal, the Great War, Puerto Rico’s Status and Banana Republics 1914 – 1926”
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Ileana Rodríguez-Silva, University of Washington, “Luis Phillipe Dessus, Radical Mulataje: Defining the Contours of an Afro Puerto Rican Intelligentsia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
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Arti Ramsaroop, The UWI, St Augustine Campus, “Garveyism: The Strategic Operations of Marcus Garvey in the United States of America 1916 – 1927”
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Anne’el Bain, The UWI, St Augustine Campus, “Una Amistad Equitativa: Exchanges of Support among Cuba, Grenada and Nicaragua, 1975 – 1990”
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Panel #5 “Afro-Diasporic Childhoods”

Solsiree del Moral, Amherst College, Massachusetts, “Sources and Methods in the Study of Afro- Caribbean Childhoods”
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Shani Roper, Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey, “Creating Colonial Citizens: Labour and Masculinity at the Government Industrial School 1918 – 1938”
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Maria Cecilia Ulrickson, Morgan State University and Andrew Walker, Wesleyan University, “Independence on the Margins: Local Economies, Family Strategies, and Political Lives of Formerly Enslaved Women in Haiti”
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Panel #6 “Locating Agency in Documentary Sources”

Fanny Malegue, Ecoles des Hautes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, “Resisting the Census to Resist the Empire? State Imperial Polities and Censuses in the French Caribbean, 1763 – 1804”
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Coen van Galen, Radboud University Nijmegen, “Escaping the Books, Bending the Rules: Resistance in the Slave Registers of Suriname”
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Mildred Caprino, Institute of Advanced Teaching Paramaribo, “Resistance A View from the Margin: The New Taxation Rebellion of the People of the Para Region in Suriname in 1891”
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Dante Barksdale, University of California, Davis, “Black Janus La Gazette Royal, Class and Race in Post Revolutionary Haiti”
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Devin Leigh, University of California, Davis Campus “The Jamaican Airs: An introduction to Newly Discovered Musical Notations from Enslaved People in the Eighteenth Century Caribbean”
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Panel #7 “Considering Gender in the History and Historiography of the Caribbean”

James Dator, Goucher College, “Race, Class and Gender in the Barbuda Rebellions of the 1740s”
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Hilde Neus, University of Suriname, “Historiography on Women in Suriname”
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Sasha Turner, Quinnipiac University, “Caribbean Slavery and the Affective Turn in History”
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Daniel Murphree, University of Central Florida, “Reassessing La Navidad: Native Women, Spanish Men, and Colonial Precedents in the Fifteenth Century Caribbean”
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Panel #8 “Land and Labour in the Caribbean”

Loverne Jacobs Browne, University of the Southern Caribbean, “Resistance on the Ground”
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Nicole Jacoberger, Camden County College, “Lowly Labourers: Race, Class and Identity in Montserrat, 17th – 19th Centuries”
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José Andrés Fernández Montes de Oca, University of Pittsburgh, “Politics of Development and Representation in Rural Jamaica 1929 – 1944”
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Panel #9 “The Politics of Commemoration”

Gelien Matthews, The UWI, St Augustine, “The Monumental Rise of Toussaint Louverture at Home and Abroad”
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Amanda Reid, University of Michigan, “Plantation Plots: Staging the Great House in Post-Independence Jamaica”
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Rose Mary Allen, University of Curaçao, “Carnival as Popular Political Culture in Curaçao, a Changing Play of Searching for Identity, 1969 – 2010”
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Panel #10 “Creating and Contesting Caribbean Borders”

Tessa Murphy, Syracuse University, “Constructing Narratives of Resistance: The Invention and Dispossession of the ‘Black Caribs’ of St Vincent”
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Casey Schmitt, The Mc Neil Center for Early American Studies, “Alliance and Resistance in the Early Seventeenth Century Caribbean”
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Victoria Barnes, Max Planck Institute, “Resistance towards English Company Law in the Caribbean?”
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Stephen B. Aranha, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History “The General Assembly Elections Act of 1959 in the Bahamas: Wresting Reform from the Oligarchy”
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Panel #11 “African Caribbean Diasporas”

Vikram Tamboli, University of London, “Assault Sorcery and Slavery: The Eighteenth-Century History of Indigenous and African Geopolitics in the Essequibo.”
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Caree Banton, University of Arkansas, “From the West Indies to West Africa: The Materiality of Immigration and Colonization”
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Justin Pope, Missouri University of Science and Technology, “An African Vision for New World Slavery: The Akwamu in the Caribbean 1729 – 1734”
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Panel #12 “Finding Voice: Rights and Representation in the Caribbean”

Jerome Egger, University of Suriname, “Trade Unionism in the Historiography of Suriname”
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Maurits Hassankhan, University of Suriname, “The Historiography of Indian Indentured Labour in Suriname, 1950 – 2018”
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Paul Trigt, Leiden University, “Emancipation of People with Disabilities in the Dutch Caribbean since the 1970s”
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Panel # 13 “Finding Refuge

Elena Schneider, University of California, “Refugees from Slavery: Maritime Maroonage in Eighteenth Century Cuba”
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Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, Howard University, “America’s Coastal Slave Trade and Caribbean Spaces of Freedom”
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Rosa de Jong, University of Amsterdam, “Paramaribo as a Safe Harbor during the Second World War”
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Alan McPherson, Temple University, “Caribbean Taliban: Cuban- American Terrorism in the 1970s”
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