Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at Hofstra University Monday, September 21, 2015 Kirsty Hooper (University of Warwick, U.K.) “Genealogy, Mobility and Family History in the Anglo-Hispanic Atlantic�
Antonio Agacio. Jesusa Alfau de Solalinde. James Hooper. Three lives intersected by the Atlantic and by the shifting relations between the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglophone and Hispanophone worlds. Three lives with varying visibility in the official records that track individual journeys across national, imperial, and linguistic borders. Three lives whose resonances are not to be found in the published works of scholars, but in the ephemeral, digital world of newspaper archives, randomly digitized manuscripts, and family historians. Locating its inquiry in the specific routes and encounters of the Anglo-Hispanic Atlantic, this presentation asks to what extent the booming, largely digital, world of family history can model new modes of inquiry for cultural scholars seeking to understand the lives and works of those whose place in the canon or the archive is fragile, contested, or even non-existent. Sponsored by LACS.
Leo Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library @ 2:55-4:20p.m