Works-in-progress Workshop

About This Event

The workshop is a day-long activity dedicated to the sharing in advance by both faculty and graduate students of 4 works in progress which are at a stage in which they are primed for intensive feedback. Each paper is assigned a discussant, whose job is to begin the conversations by offering critical feedback, followed by a larger group discussion of the work.

Featured Guests

Presenters of works-in-progress

Tomás Comesaña (Cornell Univ.), “Housewife, Worker, Prostitute: Female Labor Militancy in 1917-18 Avellaneda.” Discussant: Jonathan Ablard (Ithaca Coll.)

11:00 to 12:15: Jacqueline Ly (LeMoyne Univ.), “Fugitive Corridors and Captive Enclaves: Enslavement and Sovereignty in the Bay of Honduras, 1760–1779.” Discussant: Karl Offen (Syracuse Univ.)

Lunch

1:45 to 3:00: Molly Ball (Univ. of Rochester), “The Ones they Carried: Transport, Material Culture and Communities of Care in Salvador, Bahia, 1830-1915.” Discussant: Lucas da Costa Mohallem (Cornell Univ.)

3:15 to 4:30: Carlos Cruz (UC Santa Cruz/Binghamton Univ.), “Draining the Commons: Racial Capitalism, Indigenous Refusal, and the Making of Post Revolutionary Zacapu.” Discussant: Polly Lauer (Cornell Univ.)

4:30 to 5:00: discussion and next steps

Other confirmed attendees, beyond presenters and discussants above.

• Denisa Jashari, Syracuse University
• Ray Craib, Cornell University
• Gorka Villar, Cornell
• Camila Acosta, Cornell
• Jennifer Jolly, Ithaca College
• Harry Churchill, Cornell
• Nancy Appelbaum, Binghamton