This event is sponsored by Stanford Global Studies’ Oceanic Imaginaries, a multi-year initiative that adopts the world’s oceans as an analytical framework for advancing cross-regional, interdisciplinary research and activities addressing timely global topics.

RSVP for the Labor and Liberation Across the Atlantic Symposium

Speakers
Mariana Candido
Professor of History, Emory University
The Rise of Merchant Queens in Angola: Slavery, Freedom, and Mobility in the Era of the Slave Trade

Andrej Grubacic
Professor of Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies
The Atlantic as a Method: Interchanges Between Zapatista and Rojava Revolutions in Mexico and Northeastern Syria on Labor and Liberation

Gabrielle Hosein
Professor of Gender Studies, University of the West Indies
Indian Indentured Women’s Labour and Liberation: Decolonising Photographic Representation Through an Imaginative Visual Archive

Kathleen Lopez
Professor of History, Rutgers University
Afro-Asian Solidarity and Conflict in Latin American and Caribbean Labor and Liberation Movements

Sasha Turner
Associate Professor of History, John Hopkins University
The Archives, Blood, and Property: Uncertain Inheritances of Slavery

Moderators
Rachel Jean-Baptiste
Professor of History, Stanford University

Fatoumata Seck
Assistant Professor of French & Italian, Stanford University