Panel 2: Caribbean Pioneers

Andrew Manginn (Sewanee): “Louise Louverture: L’Ange du Malheu”
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Philippe Girard (McNeese State University): “Le marronage à Saint-Domingue (Haïti) et la révolte de 1791″
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Pedro L. Ramos (Ana G. Mendez University): “Democracy, Equality and Doctors: Cuban Diplomacy after 1971″
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Panel 3: Disaster Capitalism and Histories of Health and Wellness

Christopher Montague (Northwestern University): “Self-Government and White Sovereignty: The Black Marxist Critique of Colonialism in Jamaica”
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Mary Draper (Midwestern State University): “Underwater Land and the 1692 Port Royal Earthquake”
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Nicholas Crawford (Sam Houston State University): “Factories and Gardens: Enslaved Food Cultivation and the Alimentary Economy of Sugar in the British Caribbean”
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Daniel Livesay (Claremont McKenna College): “The Declining Health of Enslaved Elders: Mounting Pressures Against the Aged in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica”
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Panel 4: Negotiating the Caribbean: Historicizing a Changing World

Michelle McDonald (Stockton University): “The Globalization of Caribbean Studies: How the ACH Reflects and Shapes the Field”
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Edward Paulino (CUNY) and Jorge Colon Delgado (John Jay College): “La Ruta del Béisbol: the Case for a Caribbean Field of Dreams UNESCO Heritage Trail”
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Aura S. Jirau Arroyo (Eastern Illinois University): “‘Como las del norte’: Shifting Conceptions of Higher Education in Puerto Rico”
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Panel 5: Supplying the Enemy: Empire and Spain’s asiento de negros, 1596-1750

Miguel Geraldes Rodrigues (FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa): “The Portuguese Administration of the Asiento and the Conquest of Angola (1595-1641)”
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Ramona Negrón (Leiden University): “The Dutch West India Company (WIC) and the Spanish Asiento de Negros, 1660s-1680s”
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Camilla de Koning (Manchester University): “Disturbing Spanish Monopoly Trade: Britain’s Conquest Through the Asiento de Negros”
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Panel 6: The Global Caribbean Across Centuries

Tiffany Momon (Sewanee): “‘Free Born in Virginia’: The Geography of Black Craft and Trade Labor in Jamaica”
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Maël Lavenaire (London School of Economics and Political Science): “The Aftermaths of the World War II and the Social Transformation in the French Antilles (1944-1963)”
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Anne’el E. Bain (UWI St Augustine): “‘Hot War’ In The Caribbean Basin: How Leftist Solidarity In The Caribbean Region Interacted With The Global Cold War”
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Arlene J. Díaz (Indiana University): “The US Spy and the Cuban Insurgent General, 1895-1898″
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Panel 7: Moving Forward: Analyses of Modernization and Reparatory Justice

Audra A. Diptée (Carleton University): “Operation Legacy in the Caribbean”
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Isar Godreau (Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey): “Justicia Reparativa y Educación Afro-digna: La esclavitud en los libros de texto escolares”
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Marcos A. Vélez Rivera (Ana G Méndez University): “The construction of a popular library in the modernization of Puerto Rico: cultural observations and international considerations”
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Rafael V. Capó García (University of British Columbia): “Eurocentric Portrayals of Conquest, Colonization, and Indigeneity: An analysis of Social Studies textbooks in Puerto Rico”
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Panel 8: Rethinking the Coloniality of the Past

Laura Rosanne Adderley (Tulane University): “Black Caribbean Humanity in the Fraught Archives of British Slave Trade Abolition: Finding African Kinship and Social Ties in Vice-Admiralty Courts and Customs Houses of the Early 1800s Caribbean”
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Gad Heuman (University of Warwick): “The Apprenticeship System in the Caribbean: The World of the Apprentices”
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Bronwyn Lee (Binghamton University): “Aluminum and Autonomy: the Dutch Contribution to Nationalism Without Nationalization in Suriname, 1950s-1960s”
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Panel 9: Testing the Limits of Race and Gender

Antonio Gaztambide-Géigel (Universidad de Puerto Rico): “Martí, Nuestra América y la América Latina”
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Anne Ulentin (University of The Bahamas): “Interpersonal Violence in the late 19th-/early 20th-century Bahamas”
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Debbie McCollin (UWI St Augustine): “Bridging the Gap: The Child Welfare League of Trinidad and Tobago 1918-1970”
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José Orlando Sued (Ana G. Méndez University): “Cuando gobernar es despoblar: filmes comisionados por el Gobierno de Puerto Rico para promover la migración y el control de natalidad durante las décadas del 1950 al 1960”
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