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DESCRIPTION:For slavery studies, engagements with the geopolitical have robustly 
 shifted the angles through which the field might begin to imagine 
 collusions, collaborations and conversations with regions of the world. 
 Historians, in particular, have contributed to our understanding of the 
 forces at work in the making of ‘regions’ and ‘slavery’ between the 
 fifteenth and the twentieth centuries. However, such scholarship has 
 minoritized gender relations in the making of such geographies. This 
 colloquium reverses the trend by foregrounding the question: what would 
 regional histories of ‘slavery’ look like if interrogated as 
 formulations of gender? Eschewing the conventional segregation and/or 
 minoritization of regions as spatialities that provide local historical 
 flavor, the colloquium seeks to simultaneously correct regional asymmetries 
 of the past of slavery, as well as highlight the centrality of gender in 
 the making and conceiving of ‘region’ itself. Central to our concerns 
 is an interrogation of race as understood primarily through the history of 
 the transatlantic slave trade, such that this idea of race could be said to 
 constitute the background against which all representations of racial 
 formation take place. Rather, our presenters ask, for example, what would 
 it mean to imagine an analytic of race that would take the transatlantic 
 trade to the Indian Ocean and not produce African subjects in the same 
 trajectory of slavery? What are the different life-forms and histories of 
 slavery that exceed the hegemonic plantation model of slavery?\n\nA 
 Symposium featuring:\n\nRonaldo V. Wilson, University of California, Santa 
 Cruz\nSlave Slips | Life Forms: a poetry performance\n\nIndrani Chatterjee, 
 University of Texas, Austin\nDecolonizing the History of 
 Slavery\nRespondent: Juned Shaikh, University of California, Santa 
 Cruz\n\nStephen Best, University of California, Berkeley\nUnfit for 
 History\nRespondent: Vilashini Cooppan, University of California, Santa 
 Cruz\n\nEve Trout Powell, University of Pennsylvania\nBlack, Anointed and 
 once a Slave\nRespondent: Marc Matera, University of California, Santa 
 Cruz\n\nJenny Sharpe, University of California, Los Angeles\nThe Degraded 
 Image of Slavery\nRespondent: Gina Dent, University of California, Santa 
 Cruz\n\nSponsored by the Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and 
 Ethnic Studies, with generous contributions from the Departments of 
 Literature, History, Sociology, Anthropology and the Institute for 
 Humanities Research.\n\nFor further information, please contact Anjali 
 Arondekar: aarondek@ucsc.edu\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/02/14/18750863.php
SUMMARY:Gender. Region. Slavery.
LOCATION:Humanities 1, Room 210\nHumanities and Social Sciences Facility, UC Santa 
 Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/02/14/18750863.php
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