Fugitive Histories and Migrant Knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean
May 20 & 21, 2024
Workshop at the University of California, Irvine
Conveners: Kevan Antonio Aguilar (University of California, Irvine), Amy Kerner (University of California, Berkeley & GHI Washington | Pacific Office), Fabio Santos (University of California, Berkeley & GHI Washington | Pacific Office), and Chelsea Schields (University of California, Irvine)
Schedule
Monday, May 20, 2024
Meeting room: Shore Ballroom, Hampton Inn & Suites Irvine-Orange County Airport
welcome
9:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Panel 1
10 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Entangled Mobilities and Inequalities
Chair: Felix Jean-Louis
Agustina Carrizo de Reimann: Conocimientos Intercoloniales. Moving Stories of Cuban Deportation to Fernando Poo (1860-1900)
Owen MacDonald: “They Just Bleat Like Goats”: Gender, Class Conflict, and Afro-Antillean Migrant Knoweldges in the Bajan Town neighborhood of Porto Velho, 1907-1942
Rudolph Ng: Chinese Migration to Latin America Reconsidered: The Case of Nicaragua, 1875-1979
Break
12:15 . – 1:15 p.m.
Lunch
Panel 2
1:15 – 3:30 p.m.
Ecologies of Fugitivity
Chair: David Colmenares
Manoel Rendeiro Neto: Laborious Gardens of Extraction: Geopolitics of Botanical Knowledge across Amazonian-Guianese Borderlands
Catherine Peters: Fugitivity, Fishing, Fraternity
Ernesto Bassi: Fugitive Color, Fugitive Knowledge, Fugitive Prosperity: Brazilwood and the Elusive Wealth of Colonial Santa Marta
Break
3:30 – 4 p.m.
Coffee Break
Panel3
4:00 -6:15 p.m.
Knowledges and Societies in Movement
Chair: Luis Sánchez-López
Juliana Streva: Quilombo Fugitivity from Within, Against, and For: A Possibility in the Days of Destruction
Rachel Newman: The Anthropological Mobilities of Pablo Velásquez Gallardo from Michoacán to California
Dinner
7:15 – 9:15 p.m.
Dinner
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Meeting room: Coltrane Pool Picnic Area
Panel 4
10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Resistant Cartographies of Mobility
Chair: Isabel Richter
Jeffrey Kahn: Fugitive Entanglements: Haitian Maritime Economies of the Northern Caribbean
Tathagato Ganguly: Marronage, Territoriality and Mobility: Some tentative reflections from Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Lunch
Panel 5
12:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Arts and Affects as Archives of Belonging
Chair: Abigail Lapin Dardashti
Grace Aneiza Ali: The Ones Who Are Left: Art and Migration in the Guyanese Diaspora
Maurice Rafael Magaña: Unruly Archives and Multi-sited Presence: Cultural Production, Intergenerational Activism, and Belonging in Diasporic Communities
Carolin Loysa: Fugitive phoenecianism: (auto)ethnographic inquiries between Mexico and Lebanon
CLOSING DISCUSSION
2:45 -3:30 p.m.
Future Steps, Concluding Remarks
Dinner
6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Eureka Restaurant
(Self Pay)