The Rutgers British Studies Center and the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies Present:
The Many Worlds of Mainland “British Latin America” Symposium
May 5-6, 2022
See the schedule here. [https://rbsc.rutgers.edu/events/11858/the-many-worlds-of-mainland-british-latin-america-symposium]
The symposium is a hybrid event and will begin at 1 pm on Thursday, May 5; and the last panel session will end by 6pm on May 6, followed by a celebratory dinner.
We are bringing together scholars who work on the region and reckon with some aspect of the British presence and legacy in the mainland Caribbean and Latin America. The papers engage a wide array of topics including systems of unfree labor; artistic production, cultural politics, and identity; engaging the colonial archive; ecologies; and entanglements of empire
Gaiutra Bahadur (Rutgers University, Newark) will be our keynote speaker and Alissa Trotz (University of Toronto) will give the closing plenary comments.
As part of our commitment to one another and to forging community, we hope that everyone will attend each session. This is a hybrid workshop, but we have limited in-person slots. Meals will be provided.
Once you register, you will receive a link for the papers available only to symposium participants. We ask that everyone read the papers to ensure a robust conversation.