{"id":3840,"date":"2025-01-31T12:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=3840"},"modified":"2025-02-17T12:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:22:28","slug":"the-anticolonial-century-at-the-panama-canal","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/event\/the-anticolonial-century-at-the-panama-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anticolonial Century at the Panama Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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San Martin Center 200A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies <\/strong>presents <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dennis Hogan<\/strong> (History & Literature, Harvard University) for his talk on the anticolonial century at the Panama Canal: Pedro Prest\u00e1n, Eric Walrond and the Black Historical Tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1885, an explosive civil conflict in Colombia threatened commerce across the Isthmus of Panama, and US Marines deployed to quell the uprising along the interoceanic transit. The end of the conflict included the execution of Pedro Prest\u00e1n, an Afro-Panamanian lawyer, politician, and Liberal revolutionary, who stood accused of ordering the incineration of the port city of Col\u00f3n. Prest\u00e1n\u2019s challenge to both Colombian conservatism and US imperialism has been reinterpreted across twentieth-century literature in and beyond Panama. This talk explores Prest\u00e1n’s own writings as well as the work of two scholar-authors: the Afro-Guyanese modernist Eric Walrond and the Panamanian historian and comic book artists R\u00f3mulo Bethancourt Arosemena and Ologuagdi.\u00a0<\/em>In a decolonizing world, Black and Indigenous writers from Latin America and the Caribbean reappraised the mechanisms shaping the historical memory of popular anti-imperialists like Prest\u00e1n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A public talk and workshop in Harris Feinsod and Becquer Segu\u00edn\u2019s seminar \u201cAnticolonial Thought.\u201d For more information contact Harris Feinsod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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