Power, Migration, and Culture in and out of the Tobacco Valley
April 24, 2021 9AM-12:30PM
Panel 1 – SHADED ARCHIVES
“Imperial Frames and Colonial Politics in the making of the Tobacco Valley”
Jason Oliver Chang
Associate Professor of History and Asian and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut
“The Long Shadow and Legacies of WWII Labor Programs”
Fiona Vernal
Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut
“Puerto Rican Tobacco Worker Migration to Connecticut”
Elena Rosario
PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Panel 2 – SHADES OF TOBACCO LIFE
“Manifest Disablemment”
Sony Coráñez Bolton
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latinx and Latin American Studies, Amherst College
“Beyond the Fields: Gender, Labor, and the Public Legacies of Puerto Rican Farm Workers and Needleworkers”
Aimee Loiselle
Postdoctoral Fellow, Smith College
“Cultivating Dignity”
Alycia Bright Holland
Associate Professor of Theatre, Eastern Connecticut State University
Kristen Morgan
Associate Professor of Theatre and New Media Studies, Eastern Connecticut State University