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Panel #1 LOC Panel: “Unpublished and Unthought in the History of Guadeloupe”

Raymond Boutin, Honorary Associate Professor, Doctor in History, President of the Société d'Histoire de la Guadeloupe, “A Scholar-Activist in the Context of Slavery Abolition in Guadeloupe”
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Olivier Malo, Doctor in History, “Thinking of Tradition, a Venture of Destruction? A Cross-Reflection based on Brazilian capoeira and Guadeloupean mayolè”
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Jean Barfleur (Jr), Cultural Consultant, “Beauport and the Sea: A Sugar Factory in an Insular Area”
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Marie-Héléna Laumuno, Doctor in History, “February 24, 1939: A Toumblack Record Produced in Paris”
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Panel #2: Caribbean Movements and Mobilities

Myriam Cottias, CNRS, CIRESC, Paris, France, “Slavery / Subjectivity”
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Ulrike Schmieder, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany “Slavery and Museums, Monuments and Urban Trails: France and Spain, Martinique and Cuba”
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Fiona Rajkumar, University of the Southern Caribbean, “Negotiating Ethnicity: Identity, Language and Mobility and the 20th Century Chinese in Trinidad and Jamaica”
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Panel #3: “The Windrush Generation: From Experience to Representation”

Mary Chamberlain, Oxford Brookes University, “Have we Been Here Before? Barbados’ Windrush Generation in Historical Perspective”
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Renee Nelson, The UWI, Mona Campus, “A Migration Craze?” British West Indian Attitudes Towards Migration, 1948 – 1962”
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Virgillo Hunter – University of East Anglia, “The Windrush Scandal: Migration, Citizenship, Family, and Belonging”
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Natalie McGuire-Batson and Kaye Hall, Barbados Museum and Historical Society, “Giving Voice to a Caribbean History of Migration – The Enigma of Arrival: The Politics and Poetics of Caribbean Migration to Britain”
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Panel #4: ROUNDATBLE: La Soufrière: Caribbean Volcanic Hazards in Historical

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Panel #5: “Rebellion and Resistance in the Historiography of Slavery of the French and Scandinavian Colonies”

Caroline Seveno, “The Amerindian and Maroon Territorial Resistance in the Ancient Cartography of the Antillo-Guyanese Space”
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Frédéric Régent, “The Influence of the Paradigm of Resistance in the Historiography about the Slavery in the French Colonies”
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Fredrik Thomasson, Uppsala University, “Revolts and Resistance in the Scandinavian Caribbean”
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Panel #6: “Contemporary Debates on Race, Class and Culture”

Rosemarijn Hoeftel – KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute – “Modernity and the Middle Class in Late Colonial Suriname”
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Kristen Block – University of Tennessee – “A ‘Remedy’ for Inequality: Amatory Magic as Social Cure in the Spanish Circum-Caribbean, ca. 1600-1800”
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Claire Palmiste –University of French Guiana – “Managing the Unmanageable in Martinique and Guadeloupe: Colonies Facing Juvenile Delinquency (1930s- 1940s)”
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Anne Ulentin – University of the Bahamas – “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the History of Incarceration in the Bahamas”
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Panel #7: “Re-Reading a Challenged Archive”

David Lambert, University of Warwick, “Toward a more-than-human history of Caribbean Slavery”
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Thabisile Griffin, University of California, “The Barramont Petition: Property, Crises and the Archives in 18th Century St Vincent”
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Anna Forestier, Université Paris IV Sorbonne, “Interconnexions des histoires caribéennes dans l’histoire globale, enjeux de l’approche historiographique comparée d’une institution coloniale française, la milice”
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Matthew Chin, Fordham University, “Technologies of Surveillance: Investigating Transnational formations of homosexuality at the outbreak of HIV/AIDS in Jamaica”
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Panel #8: “Women Making Themselves Heard”

Rebecca Goetz, New York University, “The Century of Doña Isabel”
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O’neil Joseph, The UWI, St Augustine Campus, “The Promise and the Pain of Migration: The Case of Three Tobago Women”
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Yvonne Fabella, University of Pennsylvania, “Making Clothing and Wearing Status: Race, Slavery and Dress in Saint Domingue before the Revolution”
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Panel #9: Maritime Explorations: Shifting Identities Through Time”

Sarah Hannon and Neil Kennedy, University of Toronto, “Revisiting the Slave Ship Enterprise in Bermuda: Narrative Coherence and Local Action”
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Juan José Ponce Vazquez, University of Alabama, “Before the Sack of Vera Cruz: Dutch Pirates, Santo Domingo Smugglers, Caribbean Diplomacy and Spanish Peripheries in the Late 17th Century Caribbean”
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Susan Lowes, Columbia University, “Guilty or Innocent? A Situational Analysis of the Murder Trial of Two Chinese Immigrants to Antigua in 1883”
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Poster A

Chair – Fiona Rajkumar, University of the Southern Caribbean

Presenter

Jessica Pierre Louis, Université des Antilles, “The “Esclavage en Martinique Database”
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Panel #10: “LOC Panel” – “Past and Present Relations: Facts, Representations, Dynamics”

Raymond Gama, Doctor in History, “Reminiscences of the Kalina Presence in Northern Grande-Terre (19th-20th century)”
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Maël Lavenaire-Pineau, Doctor in History, "Socio-Economic Continuities and Reparations: The Epistemological Contribution of Social History through the Study of Two Plantation Systems: The Southern United States and the French Antilles (19th – 20th Centuries)"
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Marie-Christine Touchelay, Doctor in History, “A Sugar Factory Administrator through the Twentieth Century: Vector of Colonization or Local Emancipation Figure: The Case of Ernest Bonnet”
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Claude Hoton, Cultural Engineering Consultant, “Towards a History of Transport in the Guadeloupean Archipelago in the 19th century: The Difficulties of a Self-Centered Development Approach”
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Panel #11: “Putting Up a Resistance”

Roy Murray, Canadian International School, “But every slave… dreaming of it. Every dream a dream of escape, even when it didn’t look like it.” The story of Slave Resistance in the Caymans”
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Franco Barchiesi, Ohio State University, “Refusing the Plantation: Barbados’ Labor Insurgency and Structural Anti-Blackness in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”
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Clement Claude Trobo and Colette Maximin, Université des Antilles (Guadeloupe), “The Share of Blacks in Repairing the Damages Experienced by Them Due to Slave Trade and Colonial Slavery: The Contribution of the Négritude Movement”
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Phillip Janzen, University of Florida, “The English Professors of Jamaica: Racial Uplift and Afro-Atlantic Dialogue”
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Panel #12: “Caribbean Connections and Reflections”

Bridget Brereton, The UWI, St Augustine Campus, “Escape to the Main”
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Catherine Peters – Harvard University- “The Sea Is History: Water, the Village Movement, and Self-Determination in Colonial Guyana, 1834-1861”
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Glenroy Taitt – University of the West Indies, St Augustine – “Food Production in Guadeloupe and Trinidad 1895–1914”
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