History’s “extras”
Imaginative reconstruction in archival histories
Monday, August 30th 3:30-5:30
Diboll Gallery, The Commons, Tulane University
To be Rescheduled
A round table on performance, re-enactment, and resistance in French Atlantic history with:
Emily Clark
Clement Chambers Benenson Professor in American Colonial History, Tulane University
Author of The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World. UNC Press, 2013, among other titles.
Mélanie Lamotte
Assistant Professor, Department of French & Italian and the Africana Studies Program, Tulane University.
Author of Making Race: Policies, Sex, and Social Orders in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, c. 1608–1756. Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec
Professor of History, Université de Sherbrooke
Author of The Cry of Vertières. Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti, Montreal, McGill/Queen’s University Press, 2020) and Esclaves mais résistants. Dans le monde des annonces pour esclaves en fuite, États-Unis-Caraïbe, Paris, Karthala (forthcoming)
Free and open to all—a reception will follow
Sponsored by Lavin-Bernick Funds for the interdisciplinary workgroup PARIFA
For more information, contact Professor F. McCarren: mccarren@tulane.edu