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Research Focus Group Conference: Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference

2252 HSSB HSSB, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, United States +1 more

Over the past decade, Sinophone studies has emerged as a dynamic, interdisciplinary field, offering a flexible framework to explore the interconnections among Sinitic-speaking communities. The Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference aims to foster intellectually inclusive, creative, and rigorous conversations about the Sinophone world. It aims to enhance interdisciplinary perspectives in Sinophone studies, with a primary focus on literary studies, Indigenous studies, ethnomusicology, and gender and sexuality studies in Sinophone communities and beyond. Biographies of the Panel Speakers: ...

Research Focus Group Talk: One and Indivisible? Slavery, Federalism and Secessionism in the French-Haitian Revolution

2252 HSSB HSSB, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

“The Republic is one and indivisible”: this principle was the founding dogma of the regime that emerged during the French Revolution. The Republic, however, still “owned” colonies and the plantation societies in the French West Indies could not be more at odds with the principle of universal equality. Was the regeneration effected by the Revolution compatible with the maintenance of a colonial empire? This paper will explore the heated colonial debates on French federalism, secessionism, ...