• Hugh Cagle (University of Utah), “Imperial Tensions, Colonial Contours: Cultures of Healing and the Challenge of Area Studies Frameworks”
• Pablo Gómez (University of Wisconsin), “Wondrous Bodies: Creating the New World in the Seventeenth Century Caribbean”
• James H. Sweet (University of Wisconsin), “New Perspectives on African Languages and Ideas in Colonial Latin America”
• Eileen Findlay (American University), “Thoughts from the Caribbean on Storytelling and Grand Narratives”
• Chair: Anne-Garland Mahler (University of Virginia)

Presenters will offer brief remarks about their pre-circulated papers, leaving the majority of the session open for discussion. Please find the papers available here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6pu2g6av4r7e0fw/AABTAC0gAfKw4X05Mvmpqsyda?dl=0.