Caribbean Crucible: Atlantic Migrations and The Making of the Modern World
April 14, 2023; 10:00 am-6:30pm
Location : Columbia Law School - 435 West 116th Street NY, NY 10027
Rm 106 Jerome Greene Hall
Registration due by April 12, 2023
Conference Webpage & Registration: https://www.caribbeancrucible.org/
Panel Descriptions
African-Caribbeans & British Legal History
- “Fictitious Remedies in English Law: Reckoning with the Legal Haunting of Black Personhood” | Leonie Clarke, SOAS, University of London
- “The ‘World Newest Nation!’: West Indian Federalism and Nationalism in the British Caribbean Diaspora, 1945-1960” | Elanor Kramer-Taylor, King’s College London
- Commenter | Dr. Rochelle Rowe, Lecturer in Black British History, University of Edinburgh
Stories in Migration: Oral History Methods
- Chair | Darold Cuba, University of Cambridge
- Panelist | Jade Bentil, Merton College, University of Oxford
- Panelist | Andrew Viñales, City University of New York and WNYC Radio
Cultures in Transit, Africans in Diaspora
- “Reinventing Ourselves? Afro-Caribbean Cuisine at the Crossroads of Inter-Caribbean and Transatlantic Migration” | Mathilde Debbiche, University of Toulouse
- “Cooperation, Contestation, and Identity Formation: A Study of Black Life in Late Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth Century Sierra Leone, 1787-1834” | Taylor Prescott, University of Pennsylvania
- Commenter | Christopher L. Brown, Professor of History, Columbia University
Digitizing Diasporas, Mapping Migration
- Chair | Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
- Panelist | Stephanie Chancy, Caribbean Partnerships Librarian, dLOC Operational Lead and Digital Scholarship Director, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
- Panelist | Abraham Liddell, Columbia University Data Science Institute
Conference Organizer contacts
Madison Ogletree ([email protected])
Rochelle Malcolm ([email protected])
Samuel Niu ([email protected])
