Location: Heyman Center Common Room
Date/Time: December 2nd, 2022 from 10AM – 4PM
This convening explores the ongoing impact of this Luso-Hispanic moment in shaping identities, social distinction, histories of merchant and commercial capitalism, and histories of aesthetic production and performance. Working with a broad notion of Luso-Hispanic globality, which dates to the fifteenth century and beyond, we are interested in how Luso-Hispanic trade relations, settlements, and intimacies constituted a critical aspect of Spanish and Portuguese colonial expansion to the Americas, Asia, and Africa. We are especially keen to understand how Portuguese presence in South Asia markedly reshaped social structures of caste, gender, and religion, even as they set the terms by which new mixed race communities would emerge in Southeast Asia, or along coastal Africa, and how these processes relate to the trade in human chattel, and new extractive economies–that assemblage which is today referred to by the term racial capitalism–which effected an epochal geohistorical transition away from more dispersed, if complexly organized social formations of early modernity, to enable the ideological and the economic dominance of the North Atlantic.
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