Duke-Representing Migrations Humanities Lab Works-In-Progress Showcase

Representing Migrations Humanities Lab Works-In-Progress Showcase

Featuring presentations from Bass Connections Teams Linguistic Landscapes and Representing the Middle Passage, as well as from the 2019-2020 Lab Fellows. Including projects from UNC-CH graduate candidate Grant Glass.

Duke University

Friday, January 31, 2020, 9:30am – 4pm in Allen 314

Refreshments provided

Full schedule below

RSVP to Maggie mrm114@duke.edu

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS SHOWCASE

• 9:30: introductions
• 9:45: Alex Morelli “Becoming”

10:15-11:30: “Archives and collections”

• Tye Landels-Gruenewald “The Legislative Origins of the British Slave Trade Archive, 1787-1789”
• Jane Harwell: “‘Never Naturalist shall view’: Empiricism, Imperialism, and Captivity in Charlotte Smith’s ‘To the fire-fly of Jamaica, seen in a Collection’”
• Anya Lewis-Meeks: “Y’all Remember How Deep it Go? Mythohistory, Collective Memory and Collaboration in Rivers Solomon’s The Deep”

• 11:30: Samia Noor: “Documenting the Venezuelan Migration Crisis”

Break

• 1-1:30: “Linguistic Landscapes of Durham”
• 1:30-2: Vivien Rendleman, “Indigeneity and Immigration”

2-3: “Caribbean Resonances”

• Kelsey Desir “Literary Diaspora-Making: Narratives of Haitian Legacies”
• Isabel Bradley “Telling Impossible Stories: Narrative Detours, Vodou’s Archive and the Middle Passage”

• 3-4: Remembering the Middle Passage Project