Les vidéos du workshop « Black Atlantic » sont en ligne sur Canal-U. Cet atelier organisé sur deux journées en novembre, avait analysé les enseignements de l’oeuvre The Black Atlantic de Paul Gilroy et suggéré de nouvelles zones d’études pour les années futures.

 Chair “Global South(s)”, Collège d’études mondiales, 190-196 avenue de France, 75013 Paris
 Organized by Françoise Vergès and Marcus Rediker
 The workshop is organized in two sites over two days : Paris et Nantes

In 1993, Paul Gilroy famously described the « Black Atlantic » as a « counterculture of modernity », using an “explicitly transnational and intercultural perspective” as opposed to a nationalist or ethnically absolutist approach to the history of the African diaspora. In the two decades since he wrote those words the scholarship on the Black Atlantic has been rich, wide-ranging, and deep. This workshop will analyze and evaluate this work, assessing strengths and weaknesses and suggesting new areas for future investigation. We will discuss a variety of themes in the linked histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas : race, class, gender, environment, and visual representation, with special emphases on history from below and the rise of capitalism.

8 November Collège d’études mondiales, Paris

9:00 am Welcome : Olivier Bouin, Collège d’études mondiales/FMSH

9:30 am-12:00pm Black Atlantic I

Chair : Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh

 Robin Blackburn, University of Essex
 Tera Hunter, Princeton University
 Cécile Vidal, EHESS
 Ugo Nwokeji, Berkeley University

14:00-16:30 Black Atlantic II

Chair : Françoise Vergès, Collège d’études mondiales/FMSH

 Aline Helg, Geneva University
 Simon Gikandi, Princeton University
 Camillia Cowling
 Amzat Boukari-Yabara, EHESS Paris

17:00-18:30 : Catherine Hall (University College-London), « Legacies of British Slave-Ownership »

Catherine Hall will present the two projects based at UCL whose first phase took as its starting point “the named individuals who received compensation, the merchants and bankers, the rentiers and traders, the rectors and widows, to show the involvement of this universe of people in Britain’s economy, society and culture and to make the evidence publicly accessible. Somewhere between 10-20% of Britain’s wealthy can be identified as having had significant links to slavery.” The second looks at the structure and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833.

9 November, Nantes

(…) Two-hour encounter with scholars of the program Staraco at the University of Nantes whose members work on the construction of racial hierarchies in the Atlantic world.