Working Group sponsored by the Princeton University Humanities Council and Department of Spanish & Portuguese

FUGITIVITIES AND CONFLUENCES

Inaugural meeting: February 11 / 4:30 -6:00 pm / Scheide Caldwell 209

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Thanks to the generous support of the Humanities Council and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, a new transdisciplinary and multilingual working group “Fugitivities and Confluences” was officially established on January 28, 2025. This initiative is dedicated to the study of concepts, strategies, and lived experiences of fugitivity across the Americas and beyond. This working group brings together scholars from across the humanities on the Princeton campus to encourage sustained discussion on the artistic, historical, cultural, political, linguistic, methodological, and epistemic implications of fugitivity in the colonial past and the afterlives of slavery today. By exploring the complex interplay of escape, resistance, and mobility, the working group aims to develop a collaborative research agenda that addresses the myriad ways individuals and communities navigate, resist, and survive systems. 

Members of the working group are Luana Reis, Amina Shabani, Katya Soloveva Woodyard (German Department), Isadora Moura Mota (History Department), Juliana Streva (PIIRS), Massiel Torres Ulloa (The Effron Center for the Study of America), Susana Costa Amaral (Department of Art & Archaeology) and Victor Próspero (Princeton-Mellon Fellow).