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Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi will speak in MHRA 1215 on Friday, 21 November at 2:00p.m. "The Woman-Girl in/at War in African Women's Writing" (click here to view flyer)
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MARE Conference People and the Sea V: living with uncertainty and adapting to change 9 - 11 July 2009, Amsterdam
The Centre for Maritime Research (MARE) at the University of Amsterdam announces its fifth biennial conference, 'People and the Sea V: living with uncertainty and adapting to change'. The conference will take place from July 9-11, 2009, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Since its inception in 2001, the international MARE People and the Sea conference has established itself as one of the leading interdisciplinary forums for debate and learning in the realm of maritime and coastal research and policy. The 2009 conference is the fifth in the series and builds on previous conference outcomes that have clearly placed the capabilities of social sciences on the agenda of wider maritime interests. This conference bridges several debates on coastal change and questions how people, around the globe, are tackling the challenge of living with uncertain futures and adapting, or not, to a myriad of changes.
Five conference themes address the challenges of uncertainty over coastal change across different, but strongly connected sectors.
1. Transformations in fisheries and aquaculture
2. Transformations in coastal and deltaic landscapes
3. Governing under conditions of uncertainty
4. Culture and imaginations of coasts under change
5. Whose needs count in adapting to change?
There will be keynote addresses by:
Professor Fikret Berkes (Canada Research Chair, University of
Manitoba)
Professor Alpina Begossi (State University of Campinas, Brazil)
Professor Edmund Penning Rowsell (Middlesex University, UK)
For more information about the conference see www.marecentre.nl. All queries may be directed to Bas Bolman (conference@marecentre.nl)
Archived Announcements
Dr. Neil Norman will speak at the College of William & Mary (Gram 421) on October 30th at 3:30p.m. "Country and Town in Atlantic Africa: Towards a Regional Understanding of the Rise and Collapse of the Hueda (Whydah) Kingdom, 1650-1727 AD" (click here to view flyer)
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Silenced Histories: Enslaved Women, the Archive and Power in the Urban Atlantic World
WGS Lecture by Dr. Marisa Fuentes on Thursday Nov. 6 at 4PM - Alumni House.
Marisa J. Fuentes completed her Ph.D. in the Department of African American Studies at University of California, Berkeley in July of 2007. Her work explores the spatial, historical, and symbolic confinement enslaved women experienced in two eighteenth-century British Atlantic port cities: Bridgetown, Barbados and Charleston, South Carolina. Fuentes work brings together critical historiography, historical geography, anthropology and black feminist theory to analyze enslaved women in the urban Atlantic. Her other research interests include studies of power and sexuality, postcolonial studies, and histories of the African Diaspora.
Archival power operates to silence sources in which enslaved women are found. Available colonial sources are fragmented and mired in a language which sexualized enslaved women's bodies, appraised their economic viability, and when criminalized, confined their memories into the wretched and untamable. In this talk archival power is illuminated as it maneuvers through narratives of the most visible of particular slave societies, and the most invisible. From a brothel owner in Bridgetown, Barbados to women in flight in Charleston, South Carolina, this talk discusses the silences in the records and the ways in which some historians of female slaveryhave overlooked how the nature of the archive prevents us from articulating the many facets of enslaved women's lives.
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"Global Goods, Local Consumers: Textiles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Atlantic World, " Robert DuPlessis, Swarthmore College, National Humanities Center Thurs Nov. 6 5:00 PM
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Global Encounters conference, 14-15 November at UNC Chapel Hill (click here to view program)