Under the auspices of a cooperative agreement between UGA and the University of the Antilles that I established in 2019, with Jennifer Palmer at UGA and Dominique Rogers and Karine Katia Bénac at the Universitiy of the Antilles, students have learned from interpreting and performing archives of slavery and exchanges across languages and cultures, through co-teaching that we structured into our individual seminars. Across Georgia and Martinique, and across performance studies and history, we use our classrooms as a laboratory (including shared video-conferencing sessions) to explore how performance, creativity, and stories can reactivate archival traces of eighteenth-century Black Atlantic social histories. A panel we presented, at the Slavery at UGA Symposium, with graduate students LeKynik Meyer and Daja M. Rice, on that project can be viewed here. Students in my Fall 2020 theatre course Performance and Histories of Slavery in the Americas, who worked with Dr. Rogers's students at the University of the Antilles, prepared a video to celebrate the class and discuss what they gained and learned from it.
