2010 Schedule
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Coffee and Registration
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome Remarks
- David W. Blight, Yale University
- Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University
9:15 - 10:30 a.m. Introduction and Keynote Address
- Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan, “Illegal Enslavement: A Moral, Juridical, and Historical Puzzle”
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Panel 1: Brazil and the Slave Trade
- Herbert S. Klein, Stanford University, “The Free Afro Brazilians in a Slave Society”
- Roquinaldo Ferreira, University of Virginia, “Atlantic Microhistory: Slaving and Cultural Exchange in Angola (ca.1700-ca.1850)”
- Mariana P. Candido, Princeton University, “South Atlantic Exchanges: The Role of Brazilian Born Agents in Benguela, 1650-1850”
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30 - 5:00 p.m. Panel 2: Identities: Continuities and Creolizations
- Mary C. Karasch, Oakland University, “Contructing Communities: The Black and Pardo Brotherhoods of Central Brazil” Paper (Portuguese)
- Douglas C. Libby, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, “Conditions and Colors: Representational Identities and Afro-Brazilians in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais”
- João José Reis, Universidade Federal Bahia, “Ethnic Identity in the 1835 Rebellion in Bahia”
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Coffee and Registration
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Panel 3: Forms of Resistance/Slavery and the Law
- Silvia Hunold Lara, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, “Palmares and Cucaú: Political Dimensions of a Maroon Community in Late Seventeenth-Century Brazil”
- Keila Grinberg, Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, “Slavery, Frontier and the Law in South America’s Nineteenth-Century South (Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina)”
- Matthias Röhrig Assunção, University of Essex, “Capoeira: A Creole Martial Art”
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Panel 4: Abolition and Memory
- Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, “Building the Nation, Selecting Memories: Vitor Meireles, the Christie Affair and Brazilian Slavery in the 1860s”
- Jeffrey D. Needell, University of Florida, “Brazil’s Abolitionist Movement: The Remembered, the Forgotten”
- Angela Alonso, Universidade de São Paulo, “The Theatralization of Politics: the Brazilian Abolitionist Propaganda”
3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Coffee break
3:15 - 4:30 p.m. Concluding Roundtable
- Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan
- Richard Price, William and Mary University
- Paul E. Lovejoy, York University