Program
ACH 35 th Annual Conference
April 28 th to May 2 nd , 2003
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />San Juan, Puerto Rico
Sunday, April 27 th
Delegates arrive
3:00-5:00 Pre-Registration
Monday, April 28 th
9:00-12:00 Registration
9:00-10:30 Opening Ceremony
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 1 st Panel: The Circulation of People and Ideas in the Colonial Caribbean
Chair: Demetrius Eudell
A. Games, Caribbean Connections: English Colonial Experiments, 1630-1650
R. Souloudre-La France, French Africans and Portuguese Traders: The Spanish Caribbean?
M. L. Craig, The Coffee Planters from Santo Domingo
J. Landers, The Circulation of Ideas and Literature Among Atlantic Creoles in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 2 nd Panel: The Circulation of People and Ideas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Caribbean
Chair: Fernando Picó
R. González Patricio, Las relaciones interculturales en la perspectiva antillana del siglo XIX: Aproximaciones a José Martí
M. McLeod, Sin dejar de ser cubanos: Cuban Blacks and the Challenges of Garveyism in Cuba
W. F. Robinson, Intertwined Histories: Panama and a Broader Caribbean
J. Giusti, `Plantation and `provision grounds in the Caribbean, 17 th -19 th centuries
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:45 3 rd Panel: Tourism and Travel in the Caribbean: Between Leisure and Com-ment
Chair: Bernard Moitt
J. Adelaïde, Voyage au pays du cacao et du sucre de canne de Th. Dufau
(1901)
D. Bégot, Le Guide du Touriste aux Antilles françaises (1913)
A. Meisel, Colonization of San Andrés and Providence Islands: Anglo-Caribbeans, Panyas and Tourism
Tuesday, April 29 th
9:00-12:00 Registration
9:00-10:30 4 th Panel: Migration and Identities in the Caribbean
Chair: Roy Augier
F. Lange, Entre rumores y conspiraciones: Los franceses en el Caribe mexicano y venezolano de fines del siglo XVIII
M. F. Toussaint, Absent Without Leave: East Indians on the Spanish Mainland in the late Nineteenth Century
E. Findlay, They Put Me with the Blacks, But Im Puerto Rican!: Clash of Racial Identities in Puerto Rican Memories of Emigration to the US
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 5 th Panel: Slavery and Economic Diversification in the British West Indies
Chair: Hilary Beckles
S. Carrington, From Plantations to Peasant Economy: Diversification in British
West Indian Agricultural Production
G. Gill, Slavery on the Cotton Plantations of the Hydraulic Slave Society of Berbice
D. Gosse, The Search for Diversification in Nineteenth Century Jamaica
L. E. Simmonds, The Organization of Slave Labor in Kingston, 1800-1834
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 6 th Panel: Medicine, Disease and Society in the Caribbean from the 18 th to the
20 th Century
Chair: Rita Pemberton
A. Saunier, Le personnel de santé et les problèmes de santé publique à la Martinique de la colonisation aux années 1780
L. Abenon, Lépidémie de lèpre à la Guadeloupe au XVIIIs
K. Mahabir, Disease and Death among Indentured Indians in the Caribbean
J. de Barros, Improving the Standard of Motherhood: Infant Mortality and the Development of Infant Welfare Work in the British Caribbean
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:45 7 th Panel: War and Society: WWII and Puerto Rico
Chair: Alain Buffon
J. Rodríguez Beruff, La gobernación de William D. Lehy y la política puertorriqueña
J. Santiago, Militarización y política de tierras durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial
C. Hernández, Memoria, diálogo y escritura: Por las fronteras del militarismo y
el civismo en la ciudad de Ponce durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial
G. Piñero, La construcción de la gran base naval: Roosevelt Roads Naval Station en los años cuarenta
Wednesday, April 30 th
8:30-12:00 Registration
8:30-9:45 8 th Panel: The Caribbean After WWII
Chair: Gad Heuman
R. Hofte, Dutch Policy in the Caribbean since 1945
M. Morissey, US Federal Social Insurance Policies in Puerto Rico
A. Gaztambide, Towards a Sociology of US Latin American and Caribbean Policy: The Road to Developmentalism, 1946-1960
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-11:30 9 th Panel: Daily life and Work on the Margins of the Plantation
Chair: Verene Shepherd
D. Stark, Aprovechándose de las oportunidades: Los patrones de matrimonio entre la población esclava de Puerto Rico, siglo XVIII
J. de la Serna, Pardos, mulatos y negros esclavos: Sabores y sinsabores de la vida cotidiana en los puertos del Golfo Caribe, siglo XVIII
A. Múnera, "Cartagena de Indias: esclavitud sin plantaciones, pero con murallas"
H. Catteau, On the plantations margins: Seamen/Watermen and Self-Hired
Slaves
11:30-12:30 10 th Panel: Noël Deerr en la Guyana Británica, Cuba y Puerto Rico (1897-
1921)
Chair: Mayra Rosario
H. García, Title pending
O. Zanetti, Title pending
H. Venegas, Title pending
Free Afternoon
Walking Tour of Old San Juan
Thursday, May 1 st
9:00-10:30 11 th Panel: The Monstrous Caribbean
Chair: Bridget Brereton
A. Apter, Saintly Sinners and Drooling Saints: The Filthy Lucre of Papa Gede in the Dominican Republic
R. Derby, Vampires of Empire, or, Why Chupacabras Stalk the Americas
L. Paravisini-Gebert, The Caribbean Folk as Bogeyman and American Neo-Colonialism
in the Francophone Caribbean
R. L. Román, The Past Sucked Dry: Managing the Chupacabras and Its Predecessors
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 12 th Panel: Caribbean Identities Through Art, Music and Sport
Chair: Richard Blackett
L. Benson, The Persistence of Captivity: Chains in the Art of the First Free Black Republic
C. Fergus, Towards and Ethno-Cultural Utopia: The Historic Role of Calypso in the construction of West Indian Race Relations
J. Dumont, Distances et rapprochements: Le sport aux Antilles françaises (Modèles, identités, distances)
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:45 13 th Panel: Fraternal Orders and British Imperialism in the Caribbean
Chair: Roderick McDonald
A. D. Downes, The Invisible Ties That Bind: Secret Orders and British Imperialism in the Caribbean
G. Richards, Benevolent Societies and Racial Politics in the British Leeward Islands, 1900-1930
D. V. C. Browne, The Working mens Association in Barbados 1925-1938
C. Mc D. Scott, Friendly Societies as political and labour organisations: The St. Vincent Workingmens Cooperative Association (SVWCA) and the Employers and Employees Association (EEA) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1936-1939
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00 AGM
PM Fete
Friday, May 2 nd
Field Trips
Note : Voir les aspects littéraires ou artistiques du colloque. Il s'agit aussi d'un évènement pertinent pour les approches pan-caribéennes ou multidisciplinaires (littérature / culture / histoire).