• David Chang (University of Minnesota), “Extents and Limits of Power: A Hawaiian Chief, Indigenous Worlds, and the Fringes of Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, and British Empires in the Late Eighteenth Century”
• Heidi Tinsman (University of California-Irvine), “Juramento de los Chinos-The Chinese Oath Interpreting the Chinese-Chilean Alliance in the War of the Pacific”
• Jason Chang (University of Connecticut), “Antichinismo and The Racial Formation of Mestizo Nationalism in Mexico and El Salvador”
• Camilla Fojas (University of Virginia), “TransAmericanPacific Partnerships and the New Global Area Studies”
• Tamara Walker (Visiting Scholar, UVA Americas Center), “Africans in the World of the Pacific Ocean: Remapping the Boundaries of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Latin American History”
• Chair: Ricardo Padrón (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.