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PROCEDURE
Papers will be pre-circulated. Presenters will not read their papers; people interested in attending the conference should be sure to read the papers in advance. Panels will feature comments from respondents followed by open discussion. We hope that anyone interested in attending the conference will read the papers in advance and arrive ready to engage with them. Registration is free but required.
CONFERENCE THEME
The purpose of this conference is to engage with marronage both as an empirical case and as an occasion for thought. We are especially interested in aspects of marronage that resist explanation when maroon communities are seen as a creole amalgam of recognizable cultural elements retained or recombined. What historiographical, cartographical, or philosophical approaches are best suited to conceptualizing the world from the perspective of the maroon? What assumptions obstruct this focalization? We will address these questions both as problems of practical knowledge conceived at a range of scales and as a theoretical problem of orientation. What would it take, and would it mean, to see the maroon as the subject of history? What happens when we imagine neither the factory nor the plantation but instead the unenclosed wasteland as the setting for the development of political consciousness? Our plan then is to look to particular examples, from Saint Malo to Queen Nanny, Palmares to the Great Dismal Swamp, pressing on their implications for our thinking about sovereignty and self-organization; outlawry and escape; crime and custom; kinship and ethnogenesis; knowledge, conspiracy, and the paranoid style; treaty, fetish, and sacred oath; settlement, subsistence, and so-called secondary primitivism.
SCHEDULE
8:45-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:10 Welcome-Bryan Wagner
9:10-11:00 Introduction by Shad A. Small
Papers by Jovan Scott Lewis, David Marriott and Jeannine DeLombard
Responses from Stephan Palmie, Nadia Ellis and Elisa Tamarkin
11:10-1:00 Introduction by Ismail Muhammad
Papers by Neil Roberts, Kathryn Benjamin Golden and Maria
Josefina Saldana-Portillo
Responses by Abdul JanMohamed, Kathleen Donegan and
Donna Jones
1:00- 2:10 Lunch
2:10-4:00 Introduction by Daniel Valella
Papers by Adela Amaral, Sarah Jessica Johnson and Daniel Sayers
Responses by Tianna Paschel, Elena Schneider and Jake Kosek
4:10-5:30 Introduction by Julia Lewandowski
Papers by Michael Ralph and Rob Connell
Responses from Raul Coronado and Stephen Best
5:30-5:45 Concluding Thoughts
