LACS/SHA Program 2004
Memphis
Thursday, November 4: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
THE KIMBERLY S. HANGER MEMORIAL PANEL
AFRICANS IN COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA AND THE CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN
- PRESIDING: Jane G. Landers, Vanderbilt University
- Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World
Kevin Dawson, University of South Carolina
- Connecting the Land of the Living with the Land of the Dead in Early
African-Lowcountry Culture (South Carolina and Georgia)
Ras Michael Brown, Dillard University
- Rebelling Slaves and Soldiers in Dutch Berbice, 1763–1764
Marjoleine Kars, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- COMMENTS:
Jane G. Landers
Friday, November 5: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
COMMUNITY AND CULTURE IN COLONIAL MEXICO
- PRESIDING: Michael Polushin, University of Southern
Mississippi
- The Mesón of Xalapa: Native Defense of Community Interests within the
Judicial System of Colonial Mexico
Michael S. Cole, University of Florida
- Two Stories: Yaqui Culture of Resistance in Sonora and Yucatán
Claudia Haake, York University
- The Symbolic (and Material) Construction of Community: Church Building in
Late Colonial Mexico City
Matthew D. O'Hara, New Mexico State University
- COMMENTS:
Murdo Macleod, University of Florida
Friday, November 5: Noon
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN SECTION LUNCHEON/BUSINESS MEETING
- PRESIDING: Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University
- What Dance History Teaches about the Latin American Past
John C. Chasteen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Friday, November 5: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
CARIBBEAN/SOUTHERN CONNECTIONS, RELIGIOUS, CULTURAL, AND POLITICAL
- PRESIDING: James Walvin, University of York
- The Caribbean Roots of Afro-Protestantism
Jon F. Sensbach, University of Florida
- Robert Monroe Harrison, British Abolition, Southern Anglophobia and Texas
Annexation
Edward B. Rugemer, Boston College
From Memphis to Kingston: The Influence of Popular Music of the American
South on the Development of Jamaican Ska and Reggae
Paul Kauppila, San Jose State University
COMMENTS:
James Walvin
Friday, November 5: 4:45 P.M.
PHI ALPHA THETA—LATIN AMERICAN
Anglo/Spanish Contests in the Eighteenth-Century Circum-Caribbean
Andrew McMichael, Western Kentucky
University
Defining Florida: The Founding of Georgia and Spain's Fight for the
Frontier 1732–1740
Shane A. Runyon, University of Florida
Through Spanish Eyes: The American Revolution as Colonial Defense
Phillip Dove, University of North Florida
Liturgy and Social Power in Colonial South Carolina
Nicholas M. Beasley, Vanderbilt University
COMMENTS:
Andrew McMichael
Saturday, November 6: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
UNITED STATES–LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS IN THE NINETEENTH
AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Jürgen Buchenau, University of North
Carolina, Charlotte
The Impact of the Spanish American Liberation Movements on Inhabitants of
Spanish East and West Florida, (1808–1814)
James Cusick, University of Florida
PC Colombia: A History of the Peace Corps in Colombia, 1961–1981
Michael J. Larosa, Rhodes College
Arnulfismo and Contemporary Panamanian Politics
Frank Robinson, Vanderbilt University
COMMENTS:
Joseph L. Arbena, Clemson University
Thursday, November 4: 4:45 P.M.
PHI ALPHA THETA—LATIN AMERICAN
A Sense of Place: Communities, Real and Imagined
Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt State
University
Black Society in Havana, 1760–1780
David Wheat, Vanderbilt University
Partisan Pueblos: Empire, Loyalty, and the Indios of Colotlán in the Era
of Mexican Independence
Barry M. Robinson, Vanderbilt University
Myths and Memories: Representing the History of Brasilia
Emily Story, Vanderbilt University
COMMENTS:
The Audience