2020 Panels Moved to ASECS 2021
In light of the cancellation of ASECS 2020, our panels originally scheduled for that meeting will be presented at the 2021 conference:
Indigeneity and Mobility
Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa, “Pilgrimage to Palestine: Claiming the Eighteenth-Century Holy Land”
Angela Calcaterra, University of North Texas, “Indigeneity, Mobility, and Memory among the Osage”
Grant Glass, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Rewriting the Narrative of Empire: The Female American and the Politics of Mobility”
Roundtable: Race, Gender, and Dispossession
Alison Conway, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, “Dispossession in The History of Emily Montague”
Victoria Barnett-Woods, Loyola University, Maryland, “The Case of Dorothy Bennett: Women, Slavery, and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic”
Lauren Dembowitz, UCLA, “Between Flesh and Figure: The Dispossessing Trope of the Black Venus”
Nicolle Jordan, University of Southern Mississippi, “Elizabeth Montagu’s Dispossession of James Woodhouse, the ‘Shoemaker Poet’”
Olivera Jokic, John Jay College, CUNY, “East India Company Representatives and Local ‘Princes’”
Srividhya Swaminathan, St. John’s University, “Representing the Good Life: Slavery, Gender, and Beneficial Dispossession”