The Hacienda & The Plantation: Historical, Political, and Cultural Legacies
All events will take place in Herring Hall 100.
Friday, March 23
4:30pm Reception
5:00 Opening Keynote Address
Introduction by Caroline Levander
Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University
"Idioms of Servility"
Saturday, March 24
9:20am Introduction
9:30 Panel 1
- José Limon, University of Texas at Austin
"Leaving the Hacienda, Affirming the Plantation: Two Texas Novels"
- Suzette Spencer, University of Connecticut
"Insurgent Shadows, Phantom Limbs: Maroonage and Slavery's Monumental Legacies"
- Respondent: Alex Lichtenstein, Rice University
11:30 Break
2:00pm Panel 2
- George Baca, Goucher College
"After Jim Crow: Civil Rights Reforms and Tales of Redemption"
- Jennifer Wilks, University of Texas at Austin
"Nègre bossal, Nègre créole, and American Racial Politics"
- Respondent: José Aranda, Rice University
4:00 Break
4:30 Closing Keynote Address
Michael Hanchard, Johns Hopkins University
"Hybridity, Miscegenation, and the Afro-Latin Paradox"
5:30 Reception
Conference Hotel:
Hilton Houston Plaza/Medical Center
6633 Travis Street, Houston, Texas, United States 77030-1308
Tel: 1-713-313-4000 Fax: 1-713-313-4660
Directions:
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Maps:
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