{"id":191,"date":"2018-09-20T06:15:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T06:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awf.middcreate.net\/?p=191"},"modified":"2018-09-20T06:15:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T06:15:28","slug":"430-6-pm-opening-discussion-reconceptualizing-cultural-histories-of-the-atlantic-world-digitally-and-interculturally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/program-schedule\/430-6-pm-opening-discussion-reconceptualizing-cultural-histories-of-the-atlantic-world-digitally-and-interculturally\/","title":{"rendered":"4:30-6 pm Opening Discussion: Reconceptualizing Cultural Histories of the Atlantic World, Digitally and Interculturally\u2014Concepts and Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our opening discussion focuses on conceptual approaches to the Atlantic World itself, including comparisons of the\u00a0rich range of literatures on the transatlantic, circum-Atlantic, cis-Atlantic, and trans-oceanic; on the diasporic; on the\u00a0Black Atlantic; on the Lusophone, Hispanophone, Francophone, or Anglophone worlds; on imperialism, colonialism,\u00a0postcolonialism, and acts of decolonizing; on material culture, symbolic exchange, linguistic approaches, environmental studies, and the\u00a0history of capitalism; and on the Global South in relation to the Atlantic World.<\/p>\n<p>Readings (available as pdfs for participants&#8211;please email <a href=\"mailto:atlanticworldforum@gmail.com\">atlanticworldforum@gmail.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lara Putnam, \u201cTo Study the Fragments\/Whole: Microhistory and the Atlantic World,\u201d <em>Journal of Social History<\/em> 39, 3 [Special Issue on the Future of Social History] (Spring, 2006), 615-630<\/li>\n<li>Lara Putnam, \u201cThe Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast,\u201d <em>American Historical Review<\/em> 121, 2 (April 2016), 377\u2013402<\/li>\n<li>Bernard Bailyn, &#8220;The Idea of Atlantic History,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Atlantic History: Concept and Contours <\/em>(Harvard University Press, 206), 3-56<\/li>\n<li>Paul Gilroy, &#8220;The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity,&#8221;\u00a0<em>The Black Atlantic:\u00a0Modernity and Double-Consciousness\u00a0<\/em>(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), 1-40<\/li>\n<li>Brent Hayes Edwards, \u201cThe Uses of Diaspora,\u201d <em>Social Text<\/em> 19, 1 (2001), 45-73<\/li>\n<li>Charles Piot, \u201cAtlantic Aporias: Africa and Gilroy&#8217;s Black Atlantic,\u201d <em>South Atlantic Quarterly<\/em> 100, 1 (2001): 155-170<\/li>\n<li>Walter D. Mignolo, \u201cThe Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference,\u201d <em>South Atlantic Quarterly<\/em> 101, 1 (2002): 57-96<\/li>\n<li>Laurent Dubois and Julius S. Scott, \u201cIntroduction,\u201d in <em>Origins of the Black Atlantic<\/em>, eds. Laurent Dubois and Julius S. Scott (New York: Routledge, 2009), 1-6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our opening discussion focuses on conceptual approaches to the Atlantic World itself, including comparisons of the\u00a0rich range of literatures on the transatlantic, circum-Atlantic, cis-Atlantic, and trans-oceanic; on the diasporic; on the\u00a0Black Atlantic; on the Lusophone, Hispanophone, Francophone, or Anglophone worlds; on imperialism, colonialism,\u00a0postcolonialism, and acts of decolonizing; on material culture, symbolic exchange, linguistic approaches, environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}