Panel 2: Colonial Politics of Health and Disease in the Anglophone Caribbean

Samantha Hosein (The University of the West Indies, St Augustine): “Behind Closed Doors: Unveiling the Realities of Asylum Nursing at the St Ann’s Mental Hospital in Colonial Trinidad”
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Brittany Merritt Nash (The College of St. Benedict & St. John’s University): “Cholera and the Meanings of Freedom in Barbados”
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Debbie McCollin (The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine): “Colonial Testing Grounds: The Tobago Malaria Eradication Trial 1948-1952”
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Elizabeth S. Manley (Xavier University): “A ‘Rich, Unexplored Field’: Women, Social Science, and the History of Caribbean Studies”
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Panel 3: Commerce and Illegal Trades in Colonial Time

Marcus P. Nevius (University of Missouri): “An Historiographic Paradox: Maroon Power and Political Economy in Eighteenth Century Jamaica”
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Florian Wieser (University of Edinburgh): “Truchements of the Caribbean: Language and Strategies of Negotiation in the First French-Caribbean Trade System, 1564–1625”
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Melissa Morris (University of Wyoming): “Illegal Trade and Illicit Connections on Hispaniola, 1580-1620”
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Alison Clark (University of Edinburgh): “An Axis of Capitalism between Scotland and Guyana: The Cotton Frontier in the Southeast Caribbean and the Rise of Sandbach Tinné & Co. 1790–1838”
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Nathalie Frédéric Pierre (Howard University): “Second Slavery in Revolutionary Haiti: Trafficked Children and the Invisible Trade”
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Panel 4: The Mapping and Remodeling of their Worlds

Armando García de la Torre (independent scholar): “The Painful Remodelling of Trinidad: The Case of Dominque Dert, 1781”
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Joseph Biggerstaff (Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies): “Beyond Words: A Deep History of the Caribbean Gully”
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Marley Lix-Jones (Harvard University): “‘Our People’: Mapping the Social Worlds of Enslaved People on the East Coast of Demerara”
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Aakeil Murray (UWI, St. Augustine): “Theorising Pentecostal Conversion amongst Hindu Families in Trinidad through the Lens of Luke 14:26″
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Meha Priyadarshini (University of Edinburgh) and Victoria de Lorenzo (The University of Edinburgh): “Connecting Threads: Reorienting Global Fashion Histories through the Madras Kerchief”
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Panel 5: Negotiation(s) and Freedom(s) in the Early-Modern Caribbean

Sophia Monegro (The University of Texas at Austin): “Las Ganadoras: Black Women Enterprising Freedom in Colonial Santo Domingo (1542-1570s)”
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Clifton E. Sorrell III (The University of Texas at Austin): “‘Los Palenques’: Inter-Imperial Warfare and Negotiating Black Self-Rule in the Early Caribbean 1655-1660”
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Kyle Prochnow (Ursinus College): “Daaga: Yoruba Warfare and a British Army ‘Mutiny’ in Trinidad”
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Katharine Gerbner (University of Minnesota): “Adga Tome: Damma’s World, From Gbe to Dutch Creole”
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Alejandro Manuel Gerena-Ortiz (New York University): “Boricua forty-eighter: Betances, French Republicanism and Puerto Rican Nationalism”
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Panel 6: In Perpetual Motion: Colonial Afro- and Anglo-Caribbean Circulations Across the Seas

Natalie Zacek (University of Manchester): “Empire of the Senses: The Creole Sensorium in Georgian London”
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Christine Walker (The University of Hong Kong): “‘To Suckle My Daughter Betsy’: The Regional Trafficking of Enslaved Servants Between Antigua and North America”

Gunvor Simonsen (University of Copenhagen): “Free Soil and Restitution of Fugitives in the Nineteenth-Century Lesser Antilles”
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Rasmus Christensen (University of Copenhagen): “Small Islands and Scarcity in the Leeward Islands and Virgin Islands, late 17th to 18th centuries”
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Tyesha Maddox (Fordham University): “Sons and Daughters of Ethiopia: West Indian Immigrant Mutual Aid Societies and the Impact of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War”

Panel 7: Shaping a Plural Colony during Revolutionary Times: Trinidad at the Turn of the 19th Century

Cristina Soriano (University of Texas): “Kings, Queens, Dances and Feasts: Insurrection and Multiculturalism in Trinidad’s Black Communities, 1805”
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Tessa Murphy (Syracuse University): “Slavery on the Frontier: Enslaved Creoles and Intra-American Trafficking to Nineteenth Century Trinidad”
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Dexnell Peters (University of the West Indies, Mona): “Francisco de Miranda’s Trinidad as a Revolutionary Atlantic World Listening Post”
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Catherine Peters (College of William and Mary): “Fishing, Fraternity, and Fugitivity: Asian Men in Early-Nineteenth Century Trinidad”
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Patrick Murphy (University of Chicago): “Space, Place, and Empire in Trinidad’s Nineteenth-Century Popular Riots”
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Panel 8: Bringing Caribbean Women out of the Shadows

Daniel Livesay (Claremont McKenna College): “Plantation Resistance by Elder Jamaican Women”
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Shivalli Ragbir (The University of the West Indies, St Augustine): “Female Invisibility within the Justice System: Accommodation and Safety in Penal Facilities in Trinidad and Tobago 1842-1958”
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Takkara Brunson (Texas A&M University): “Afro-Diasporic Womanhood and the Photographic Archive of Eusebia Cosme, 1920s-1950s”
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Arti Padmani Ramsaroop (The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine): “For Home from Abroad: Muriel Petioni and the Trinidad and Tobago Gayap Organisation”

Panel 9: Poster session

Gabriel José Rivera Cotto (Yale University): “Freedom at Bay: Enslaved Labor and Resistance in the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1800-1850”
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Shantal Cover (The University of the West Indies): “Conceptualizing Cultural Heritage Discourse in 21st Century Jamaica”

Panel 10: The Legacies of British Colonialism