Lecture
Runaways, refugees and slavery temporalities
- Date
- Monday 21 October 2024
- Time
- Serie
- CADS Research Seminars
- Address
-
Pieter de la Court
Wassenaarseweg 52
2333 AK Leiden - Room
- 5A42
About the speaker
Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and visiting research at the University of Amsterdam (2024-2025). Her research interests include creativity, plantation, and plantationocene effects in the Caribbean and Amazonian region, focusing mainly on the Maroon and traditional people's cosmopolitics. Her recent publications include The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artifacts (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2020) and the edited volume Maroon cosmopolitics: Personhood, creativity, and Incorporation (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2018).