Paper Abstracts
Legacies of Slavery in Jamaica
- Edward Rugemer, Yale University
“Transatlantic Infuence: First of August Celebrations in the Antebellum United States” - Petrine Archer-Straw, Cornell University
“Accessory/Accessories: Or What’s in Your closet?”
Legacies of Jamaican Slavery in the United Kingdom
- Eddie Chambers, Independent artist and scholar
“Remembering the Crack of the Whip: Some Images of Slavery in the Recent Work of Black British Artists” - Catherine Hall, University College, London
“Britain 2007: Problematizing Histories” - Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary, University of London
“Remembering Jamaica”
Labor and the Legacies of Slavery
- Gad Heuman, University of Warwick
“The Legacy of Slavery: The World of the Jamaican Apprentices” - Anthony Bogues, Brown University
“The slaves dem work and so do we, so weh the difference: Reflections on Labor and Freedom in post-Emancipation Jamaica”
Music and the Legacies of Slavery
- Kenneth Bilby, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, Chicago
“Masking the Spirit in the South Atlantic World: Jankunu’s Partially-Hidden History” - Carolyn Cooper, University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
“Erotic Maroonage: Embodying Emancipation in Jamaican Dancehall Culture”