Seminar on Women and Gender Studies
An event organised by Research Unit 7387 DIRE
co-organised by Monica Cardenas-Moreno (Hispanic Studies) and Florence Pellegry (English Studies)
"Women slaves in Cuba 1789-1886,
First approaches:
30 years on"
Elsa CAPRON
Senior Lecturer, member of the LCF laboratory, University of La Réunion
Discussant: Ada LESCAY GONZALEZ (Assistant Professor, member of the DIRE laboratory, University of La Réunion)
Thursday 30 October 2025 From 4pm to 5pm
In person, at the Ottino lecture theatre (Moufia Campus, Faculty of Arts and Humanities),
and remotely: Zoom link: https://univ-reunion-fr.zoom.us/j/89636915749
For more information, click on the poster
poster 30 Oct 25
Abstract: This presentation discusses research conducted as part of a doctoral thesis on female slaves in Cuba, which was defended in 2023 at the University of Paris 8 and was considered pioneering at the time. After explaining the reasons for choosing this topic, the initial hypotheses, the justification for the spatio-temporal framework, and the theoretical and methodological approaches, methodology, we propose to understand to what extent this subject could, in the years 1995-2000, appear innovative in France through its contributions and approach, and to see what, 30 years later, would be changed - or not - in this type of research subject and how, under the dual effect of the decolonial movement and new technologies.
Elsa CAPRON: A former student of the Lycée Français Louis Pasteur in Bogotá (baccalaureate class of 1988) and then of the ENS Fontenay St Cloud (class of 1990), Elsa Capron is a certified Spanish teacher who was recruited as a lecturer in Hispanic American civilisation in the Spanish department of the University of La Réunion in 2006. Elsa CAPRON specialised in 19th-century Cuban history after conducting research in Havana thanks to an agreement with the University of Paris 8 as a resident student, first for her master's thesis (1991-1992) and then for her doctoral thesis (1996-1997). Female slaves are at the heart of her main research, and she is currently working to extract the marks of their multiple sufferings (scars, faces, tears, abuse) from the archives and make them visible.
