Renee Soulodre-La France presents at American Historical Association Meeting
Renee Soloudre-La France, King’s associate academic dean, and Robert Ventresca , chair of the History department, recently attended the annual meeting for the American Historical Association (AHA), held in Chicago, IL.
While at the conference, held from January 5-8, Soulodre-La France participated in a group of two panels titled “Communities and Networks Lost and Recovered in Latin American Archives and Libraries”. These panels, “Recreating Communities: Preserving Endangered Archives to Recover African and African-Descended Communities and Networks in the Iberian Colonies” and “Lost Histories: The Destruction of Archives and Libraries in Latin America” focused on the important work of digitization of endangered archives and the successes and challenges of the project “Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies” directed by Jane Landers.
During her participation on the panels, Soulodre-La France presented her own paper titled “Sailing through the Sacraments. Ships’ Capellans in Cartagena de Indias.”
Click here to view Soulodre-La France’s presentation (PPT).
Click here to visit Soulodre-La France’s bio page.
To read more about the project Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/esss/index.php
Soulodre-La France is also a member of Conference on Latin American History Association (CLHA) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and has done work on a project titled The Hispanic Baroque: Complexity in the First Atlantic Culture which you can learn more about by visiting baroque-identities.mcgill.ca/
