1. Haiti’s Fragmented Modernity: Elite Capture, Neo-Bovarysm, and the Limits of Black Sovereignty (1804-2004) • Westenley Alcenat, Scripps College.

2. From Tropicalism to Development: Coloniality and the Global Formation of Western Modernity • Andrés Bateman, Independent researcher.

3. In Excess of the Nation: Territorial Histories and the Politics of Self-Determination • Swati Birla, State University of New York-New Paltz.

4. Local Manifestations of Colonial Continuities: Citizenship by Investment and Dominica • Marilyn Grell-Brisk, Pitzer College.

5. Modernity's Other Archive: African Epistemologies, Humanitarian Knowledge Power, and the Decentering of Global Social Theory • Kelly Jabosung, Kindercare Learning Centers; Mendong Margarate Besin Mengla, University of Buea.