Brett Rushforth, Associate Professor, University of Oregon
“Consuming Colonialism: The Atlantic World in Sixteenth-Century France”
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6275 Bunche Hall & Zoom
6275 Bunche Hall
Beginning in the seventeenth-century, members of the Carmelite order adopted two ancient Ethiopian saints, Efigenia and Elesban. While their interest in ancient saints was tied to the order’s longstanding efforts to prove the antiquity of their order dating back to the Prophet Elijah, the...
6275 Bunche Hall
This talk follows Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Watara, a Timbuktu-born teenager who was enslaved in Jamaica from 1805 to 1834. Upon securing his manumission, Watara undertook a trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan journey, in a bid to return home. A close examination of Watara’s words and writings about him,...
6275 Bunche Hall
6275 Bunche Hall
Marc Hertzman, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
Flying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife
Most histories of Palmares, the sprawling collection of settlements in Brazil that became perhaps history’s largest fugitive...
Bunche 6275 & Zoom
Most histories of Palmares, the sprawling collection of settlements in Brazil that became perhaps history’s largest fugitive slave society, end in 1695, when colonial forces assassinated the famous rebel leader Zumbi. My book project plays the story forward into the eighteenth century to...
6275 Bunche Hall
Based on history, dance studies methodologies and critical ethnography, this paper addresses choreographies of invocation and incorporation in the Afro-Brazilian ritual practice of Candomblé through the lens of indigenous feminisms and choreographic analysis. Looking closely at practitioners'...
6275 Bunche Hall