Heyman Center Common Room
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society.
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.
The schedule is as follows:
DAY: Friday, December 2, 2022
TIME: from 10 AM to 4 PM
Venue: Heyman Common Room
10:00- 10:15 Introduction/presentation/welcome
Ana Paulina Lee and Anupama Rao
10:20-NOON
CONNECTION AND HISTORICAL COMPARISON
10:20- 10:45
Rochelle Pinto, “Iberia: race, caste, conquest” (in person)
10:45-11:10
Stuart Mcmanus, “African Diasporas” (virtual)
11:10-11:25
Response: Amy Chazkel
11:25-Noon
General Discussion
12 pm – 13:30 pm
LUNCH BREAK
13:30 pm – 15:30 pm
THE PROBLEM OF FREEDOM: LABOR AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE
1:30-1:55
Henrique Espada, “Labor and Freedom in the context of the Iberian Mundialization” (in person)
2:00- 2:25
Ananya Chakravarti, “Slavery, Mobility and Identity in the Making of the Konkan” (virtual)
2:30-2:55
Bahia Munem, “Muslim/Palestinian Diaspora” (in person)
2:55-3:20
Response: Iuri Bauler
3:25- 3:50
João Pina
Presentation on Visual Compositions
4:00- 4:45PM
General Discussion, Wrap Up
After Party!
CSER/LAICS/ILCS – Join us for the end of term – Holiday party with music, dance, and good food!!!!
Jerome Greene Annexe (Law School)!
Contact icls@columbia.edu for any questions.
