Tag: Atlantic World

13th annual Río de la Plata Workshop

Join us for the 13th annual Río de la Plata Workshop. Please REGISTER by clicking on the link. If you do not have an account on the OI Events site you will be asked to create one. Please make sure to register for the event after you create the account — creating an account does not automatically register you for the event. Once you have registered, a Zoom link will be sent to you via email.

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The Río de la Plata and the Independence of Brazil
April 21 – 22, 2022

 

Day 1
April 21st 2022, 5:00 pm (ET)

Book Presentation

A History of Black Emancipation: Slavery and Abolition in Argentina

Magdalena Candioti  (CONICET/Instituto Ravignani – Universidad del Litoral, Argentina)

Comment: Alex Borucki (University of California – Irvine)

 

Day 2
April 22nd 2022, 5:00 pm (ET)

The Río de la Plata and the Independence of Brazil

Round Table  (event in Spanish, Portuguese, and English)

  • Karina Melo (Universidade Estadual de Pernambuco, Brazil)
    “Ações indígenas nas fronteiras platinas às vésperas da Independência do Brasil”
  • Wilson González Demuro (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
    “La independencia de Brasil como oportunidad: dudas y certezas en la Provincia Cisplatina”
  • Ana Frega (Universidad de la República – Uruguay)
    “Ecos del artiguismo en la Cisplatina”
  • Herib Caballero Campos (Universidad Nacional de Canindeyú, Paraguay)
    “Primeros contactos entre el Paraguay y el Brasil en la década de 1820. La Misión Correa da Cámara”
  • Verónica Secreto (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)
    “Libertos o mercancias: la captura de navios negreros en las guerras de independencia. Los corsarios en la guerra del Brasil”
  • Gabriel DiMeglio (Instituto Ravignani, CONICET-UBA, Argentina)
    “An army of many names. The difficult formation of the Rio de la Plata military forces in the war between the United Provinces and the Empire of Brazil”

Chair: Fabrício Prado

 

 

Reading for Teaching: A Vast Early America Book Club

How do we incorporate scholarship on early America, both old and new, into our teaching–whether that teaching happens in a K-12 classroom, on a university campus, or at a museum? In this every-other-monthly reading group, we will come together to think collaboratively about how to engage with audiences from a broad spectrum and in a wide variety of contexts.

“Reading for Teaching” will explore a wide variety of scholarly texts as possible frameworks for lectures, discussions, and other methods of approaching Vast Early America with different audiences. Each meeting will focus on a single book to be read by all and participants will be encouraged to share their expertise and experience communicating history in different venues.

The group will meet on the last Thursday of every other month.  Hosted by Melissa Johnson, each session will include a guest who brings expertise in the subject area.

To APPLY: email an abbreviated c.v. to oievents@wm.edu by June 15, 2021.

Our first meeting is scheduled for July 23, 5:00 pm EDT, and will explore Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 by Susan Sleeper-Smith (published by the Omohundro Institute with partner the University of North Carolina Press in 2018) with guest Michael Witgen (Columbia University).

Subsequent meetings will be scheduled every other month.

Michael Witgen is a professor in the Department of History at Columbia University as well as the Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race there. He is a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. His publications include “An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), and “American Indians in World History,” in the Oxford Handbook of American Indian History, ed., Fred Hoxie, (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, April 2016). His work explores the juxtaposition of Native and European experiences and responses to the process of mutual discovery that created the New World in North America, with a particular focus on the Great Lakes and Great Plains. His current research examines the intersection of race, national identity, and state making in the Old Northwest of the early republic, and includes the essay “Seeing Red: Race, Citizenship, and Indigeneity in the Old Northwest,” published in Journal of the Early Republic in 2018, and awarded the Ralph D. Gray prize for best original article by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. He is also the author of Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America forthcoming with the press of the Omohundro Institute for the Study of Early American History & Culture.

 

Melissa Ann Johnson is a historian of women, religion, and communication in early America. Her first book project focuses on watchfulness and women’s gossip in seventeenth-century New England. She is also working on two other projects, one on domestic servitude in colonial New England and another on deception and imposters in the Atlantic world. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2019 and currently teaches history courses at community colleges in Oregon and in Washington state.

“From New Cultures to a New Regime: Washington and Cuzco in the 1810s”

OI Colloquium with Nathan Perl-Rosenthal

This paper comes from a chapter of a book-in-progress, a wide-angle cultural history of the age of revolutions, ca. 1760-1825. Interweaving the stories of cities in North and South America, it argues that a synchronous and inter-related set of cultural changes took place in multiple Atlantic regions around 1800–spanning sociability, urban space, and family life–which created strikingly similar cultural foundations for the “second wave” of Atlantic revolutions post-1808.

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal is a faculty fellow at the University of Southern California and a historian of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world. He focuses on the political and cultural history of Europe and the Americas in the age of revolution, with a strong interest in law and empire. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University in 2011, with a dissertation on epistolarity and revolutionary organizing, and then in 2015 published a first book on a different topic: Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution (Belknap/Harvard). His current book project is a cultural history of the Atlantic age of revolutions, from the 1760s through the 1820s, which aims to rethink the era’s putative role in creating modern democratic politics.

ABOUT OI COLLOQUIA

The OI’s Colloquium Series is an ongoing seminar for scholars to present their work in progress for graduate students and colleagues.  Advanced registration is required. All participants read the pre-circulated  paper and prepare to engage in generous and generative feedback.

When we meet in person we are limited by the size of the OI’s conference room; online we limit registration to 40 (a typical size for the colloquium). No recordings are made of the discussions and no tweeting or posting on other social media platforms during the event is permitted in order to encourage this intellectual community of trusted exchange.

COPIES OF THE COLLOQUIUM PAPER ARE AVAILABLE ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE.

Contact Beverly Smith to receive your copy.

Julia Gaffield, “The Schism: Haitian Independence and the National Church”

OI Colloquium with Julia Gaffield

Julia Gaffield is an associate professor of History at Georgia State University. She received her PhD from Duke University. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Professor Gaffield’s first book, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2015 and won the 2016 Mary Alice and Frederick Boucher Book Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society. It was positively reviewed in fifteen academic journals, including the American Historical Review and The William and Mary Quarterly.

She is currently working on two book projects: the first, tentatively entitled, Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Freedom or Death, is a biography of the Haitian founding father (under contract with Yale University Press). The second, tentatively entitled, The Abandoned Faithful: Race and International Law in the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution, shows how Haiti’s state-sanctioned claim to Roman Catholicism after 1804 had local and global implications that helped reshape the dominant understanding of international law (under contract with the Omohundro Institute).

About OI Colloquia

The OI’s Colloquium Series is an ongoing seminar for scholars to present their work in progress for graduate students and colleagues.  Advanced registration is required. All participants read the pre-circulated  paper and prepare to engage in generous and generative feedback.

When we meet in person we are limited by the size of the OI’s conference room; online we limit registration to 40 (a typical size for the colloquium). No recordings are made of the discussions and no tweeting or posting on other social media platforms during the event is permitted in order to encourage this intellectual community of trusted exchange.

copies of the colloquium paper are available one week in advance.

Contact Beverly Smith to receive your copy.