Caribbean Crucible: Atlantic Migrations and The Making of the Modern World
Conference Webpage & Registration
https://www.caribbeancrucible.org/
Panel Descriptions
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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
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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
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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
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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
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