This panel addresses the emerging diasporic consciousness that accompanied the movement of people and changes in ecologies in the eighteenth century. Extending last year’s two-part roundtable “Eighteenth Century in Motion” to the question of Diaspora, participants are invited to consider questions including but not limited to:

While the ‘diasporic eighteenth century’ offers proliferating instances of movement, what are some ways to simultaneously consider communities and people subjected to increased physical, discursive, and representational confinement?

What are some circumatlantic relations that the diasporic eighteenth century allows us to consider?

What new knowledge and perspectives can digital humanities offer to expand our understanding of the diasporic eighteenth century?

What alterations to ecology and geography accompany the alterations of demography across the seas in the eighteenth century?

Keywords: Critical Theory/Theory, Digital Humanities, Ecology/Eco-humanities/Environmental Studies, Indigeneity/Indigenous Studies, Race and Empire