Working Group Meeting: “Fugitivities and Confluences”

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 last Tuesday January 28th, 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, Katya Soloveva Woodyard (German Department), Isadora Moura Mota (the 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 (the School of Architecture).