Labor and Liberation Across the Atlantic Symposium

This event is sponsored by Stanford Global Studies’ Oceanic Imaginaries, a multi-year initiative that adopts the world’s oceans as an analytical framework for advancing cross-regional, interdisciplinary research and activities addressing timely global topics.

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Schedule:
1:30 - 3:30 pm: Panel 1
Moderated by Fatoumata Seck, Assistant Professor of French & Italian, Stanford University

Kathleen Lopez
Professor of History, Rutgers University
Afro-Asian Solidarity and Conflict in Latin American and Caribbean Labor and Liberation Movements

Gabrielle Hosein
Professor of Gender Studies, University of the West Indies
Indian Indentured Women’s Labour and Liberation: Decolonising Photographic Representation Through an Imaginative Visual Archive

Andrej Grubacic
Professor of Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies
The Atlantic as a Method: Interchanges Between Zapatista and Rojava Revolutions in Mexico and Northeastern Syria on Labor and Liberation

3:30 - 3:45 pm: Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:15 pm: Panel 2
Moderated by: Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Professor of History, Stanford University

Mariana Candido
Professor of History, Emory University
The Rise of Merchant Queens in Angola: Slavery, Freedom, and Mobility in the Era of the Slave Trade

Sasha Turner
Associate Professor of History, John Hopkins University
The Archives, Blood, and Property: Uncertain Inheritances of Slavery