When:
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CT
Where: Crowe Hall, 1-132 1860 Campus Drive., 1860 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: free
Contact:
Nancy Cunniff
(847) 467-2294
Group: One Book One Northwestern
Co-Sponsor:
Black Studies Department
Category: Lectures & Meetings, Academic, Multicultural & Diversity
In this talk, I discuss how archaeology has contributed to our understanding of marronage in the Atlantic world. Drawing from contemporary LiDAR and geospatial data in St. Croix and former Danish West Indies, I show how newer archaeological methods expand our understanding of maroon geographies and ecologies while also turning our attention toward maritime seascapes. Theoretically, I engage scholars in Black Geographies to think more critically about the sea/ocean as a site of history, memory, placemaking, and liminality, phenomenologically positioning bodies of water and seafaring vessels as a (de)generative space of Black Atlantic sociality and possibility. We can bridge terrestrial and maritime experiences by employing various “archaeologies” of marronage.