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The UBC Department of History Colloquium Series brings together scholars who are exploring important methodological\, chronological\, or geographic al issues that challenge the frontiers of our discipline and contribute str ongly to our collective discussions.
As part of the 2023/2024 Colloqu ium series\, we are pleased to invite you to a talk by Dr. Sharika D. Crawford (Speedwell Professor of International Studies and Prof essor of History\, United States Naval Academy). Dr. Crawford will present a talk entitled “From North End to Pañatown: How the Free Port and Tourism Sector Spurred Migration that Transformed the Colombian Island of S an Andrés\, 1953 -1972."
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For generations\, the Anglophone Afro-Caribbean islanders fr om the Archipelago of San Andrés and Providencia had regularly migrated to and from Central America and other islands in the Caribbean Sea. By the mid dle of the twentieth century\, waves of migrants from mostly new locales in mainland Colombia and even as far as the Middle East transformed the tiny Colombian-administered islands' economy\, society\, and culture. Drawn to n ewfound opportunities due to the opening of the free port and promotion of tourism in San Andrés\, these international and national migrants served as unintentional yet willing partners to state efforts to integrate the islan ds administratively\, economically\, and socially within Colombia. Drawing on ethnographic studies from the period\, Colombian newspaper articles\, an d oral histories available in the collections at the Banco de la República Centro Cultural in San Andrés Island\, I trace how the free port strengthen ed administrative ties and contact between mainland Colombians and islander s\, failed to integrate the majority of islanders\, and facilitated the dev elopment of a black autonomous identity formation.
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In 2023\, Sharika D. Crawford was named the inaugural Spe edwell Professor of International Studies\, an honor that she will hold unt il 2028. Most of her research has focused on the interstitial places in the circum-Caribbean like the Colombian islands of San Andrés and Providencia. Her 2020 monograph The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor\, Conservation\, and Boundary Making published by the Universit y of North Carolina Press received an Honorable Mention from the Elsa Govei a Prize in Caribbean History Committee of the Association of Caribbean Hist orians in 2021. She has published articles and essays in the New West I ndian Guide\, Historia Crítica\, and Latin American Research Revie w\, to name only a few. Currently\, she is co-editing Understandin g and Teaching Modern Latin American History. In her talk\, she will p resent her preliminary thinking towards one aspect of her second monograph project The Islands for Islanders: Ethnic Politics\, Environmental Cris is\, and Sovereignty Struggles in Caribbean Colombia\, 1903 – 1993. CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage LOCATION:Buchanan Tower 1112 GEO:49.268580;-123.253452 URL;VALUE=URI:https://history.ubc.ca/events/event/ubc-history-colloquium-cr awford/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hist.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2023/11/Crawford-colloquium-1-of-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 DTSTART:20231105T090000 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR