Join us Wednesday 25 September 2019, 12:00-1:30PM, Ryan Building El Instituto Conference Room for our Fall Tertulia Lunch Lecture Series with Dr. Leigh Binford.

Leigh Binford retired in 2018 from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island, where he was a professor and served as department chair. Before that, Binford worked at Mexico’s Autonomous University of Puebla and the University of Connecticut. He is a UConn PhD and he has carried out fieldwork in highland and lowland Mexico and highland El Salvador, focusing on rural social economies, peasantries, international migration, human rights, civil war and post-war reconstruction.

Lunch will be served.

Tacuma Peters (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley) is a recipient of the 2019 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship and Assistant Professor in Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy
at James Madison College and in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University.

“"Black Caribs, Indigeneity, and Resistance in Eighteenth Century St. Vincent” examines the “Carib Wars” of the mid- to late-eighteenth century. It interprets the political thought and practices that led to Carib resistance to British claims to land and sovereignty in the wake of
the Seven Years’ War. Through an examination of the limited writings of Black Carib leaders, the strategies utilized to resist British colonialism, the history of European interpretations of
Carib polities, and the extant historiography on the two conflicts, Peters argues that St. Vincent after the Seven Years’ War provides a key site of inquiry into the processes of racialization and land dispossession that characterize settler colonialism. Peters concludes by addressing the problems that incomplete and colonial archives pose to historians of political thought and by
meditating on the relationship of Carib anti-colonialism to the concepts and practices of marronage and confederacy.

Darian Spearman, PhD Candidate in Philosophy, will serve as discussant.

Co-sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop and the REP Graduate Certificate Program

To receive the pre-circulated manuscript, email fred.lee@uconn.edu or jane.gordon@uconn.edu