| 8:30 am - 9:30 am |
Coffee / Registration |
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| 9:30 am - 10:00 am |
Welcome:
Patricia Sullivan, Chancellor, UNC-Greensboro |
Auditorium |
| 10:00 am - 11:45 am |
Session #1 |
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Panel #1 |
Interracial Sex: |
Maple Room |
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Chair: SallyAnn Ferguson
Melissa K. Downes
Erotic Islands: The Caribbean in Early Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Heather Miyano Kopelson
Marriage and Miscegenation: Family Identity in Bermuda, 1650-1720
Angelita D. Reyes
What's Love Got to Do With It? Black Women, White Men and the Politics of Miscegenation in the Atlantic World
Kimberly D. Snyder
La Cordifiamma: Refashioning Racial Identity in Charles Kingsley’s Two Years Ago |
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Panel #2 |
Noble Savages and Wild Men: |
Alexander Room |
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Chair: Jennifer Keith
Melissa Bailes
Caliban’s Great Chain of Being: Tyranny and Identification in Robert Browning’s “Caliban upon Setebos, or Natural Theology in the Island"
Nicole Eustace
Ruling Passions: Surveying the Borders of Humanity on the Pennsylvania Frontier
Brianne Orr
Good Savage or Wild Man: the Construction of Amerindian Identity from the European Gaze
Karen Sands-O’Connor
Sugar and Spice, Not so Nice: Creating the West Indian Subject in 19th Century British Children’s Literature |
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Panel #3 |
Spanish and French Louisiana: |
Kirkland Room |
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Chair: James Anderson
Guillaume Aubert
"Can a Métis be a Régnicole?: The Racial Redefinition of French National Identity in New France and Colonial Louisiana
Caryn Cossé Bell
Identity Formation in the Revolutionary Atlantic: The Haitian Legacy in Creole New Orleans
Light T. Cummins
Mapping Identity on the Margins of Empire: The Market Economy and Anglo-American Migration into Spanish Louisiana, 1769-1803
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Panel #4 |
Colonial Settings and Subtexts in Early Nineteenth-Century Novels: |
Claxton Room |
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Chair: Hephzibah Roskelly
Brooke Conti
"Stigmata Laudis": William Prynne, Archbishop Laud, and Hawthorne's Use of History in The Scarlet Letter
Kuldip Kuwahara
Stable Homes, Spreading Seas: The Slave Question in Jane Austen's Fictional World
Melissa L. Mellon
The Fictional "Dark Woman": Religion and Ethnicity in the Reproduction of English and American "Nation"
Virginia Stewart
Melville’s Babo and Higginson’s Vesey: Two Shadows Illuminated |
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Panel #5 |
Representations of the New World: |
Joyner Room |
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Chair: Elizabeth
Chiseri-Strater
Robert Grant
"American Scenery"/"Canadian Scenery": The Representation of Native American/First Nation Peoples in Mid-Nineteenth-century Britain
Patrick Lucas
Visualizing Empire: East meets West
Catherine Molineux
Pleasures of the Smoke: Popular Representations of Black Virginia in Georgian London’s Tobacco Shops
Christopher Porter
Portraying a National Space: The West in Three American Periodicals, 1875-1877 |
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Panel #6 |
Abolition and Emancipation in the Atlantic World: |
Dogwood Room |
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Chair: Jeffrey
Kerr-Ritchie
Patricia Acerbi
Abolishing Slavery and Emancipating the Urban Working Class: Joaquim Nabuco and Free Labor Ideology in Brazil, 1870-1888
Maria J. Barbosa
FRANCISCA/ XICA DA SILVA
Jason McGraw
Candelario Obeso and the Politics of Blackness in Post-Abolition Colombia, 1850-1880
Miriam L. Wallace
Trans-Atlantic Subjects: The Limits of Thomas Holcroft’s Abolitionism in Bryan Perdue |
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Panel #7 |
Ethnicity and Canadian Identity: |
Azalea Room |
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Chair: Gordon Stewart
Jeff Fortin
"Blackened beyond our Native hue": The Jamaican Maroons and the Redefinition of Race in the Atlantic World, 1795-1800
Denise Guidry
Atlantic Upheaval: Building Acadian and Cajun Identities
Martin Reinink
A Self Behind the Self?: Pierre Esprit Radisson and the Strategic Performativity of Identity
Gordon Stewart
The Origins of a Canadian Identity? |
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Panel #8 |
Nationalism: |
Benbow Room |
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Chair: Eve
Wiederhold
Elise Bartosik-Vélez
Empire in the Americas: Nationalist Discourses of the U.S. and Spanish America
Edward Larkin
American Loyalists and National Identity in the Early Republic
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Panel #9 |
Myths of Imperial Inheritance (I): |
Elm Room |
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Chair:Jeanne Follansbee Quinn
Charlotte Artese
Madoc and Metaphor
Abigail Davis
The Role of Artifacts in American Foundation Myth: John Endecott’s Sword
Philip Gould
“His Wit Ridiculed”: British Aesthetics in the American Revolution |
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Panel #10 |
Religious Confessions and Public Identity (I): |
Long Leaf Pine Room |
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Chair: Ana
Hontanilla
Patricia Ferrer-Medina
"As I buy, so also do I sell": An Ecocritique of Ramón Pané’s An account of the Antiquities of the Indians, (1498)
Heidi Hanrahan
Samson Occom and the Rhetoric of American Dissent
Amy Morris
Purity and Colonial Identity: The Case of the Bay Psalm Book |
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Panel #11 |
Religious Conversions: |
Ferguson Room |
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Chair: Robert Calhoon
Stephen Berry
The Atlantic Crossing and the Transfer of Religion in the Eighteenth Century
Nicholas E. Bomba
A Frontier of Faith: Foreign Seamen and the Inquisition of New Spain, 1572-1575
John Catron
A Transcaribbean Community of Saints: Evangelical Networks in the American South and West Indies in the 18th century
Joanne van der Woude
The Colonially Converted: Physical Journeys and Spiritual Travails in Early American Self-Narrative |
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Panel #12 |
Commerce: |
Sharpe Room |
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Chair: Annette Van
Nancy Bowman
High Anxiety: The Spanish Cigarette and Prospects for American Progress in the Late Nineteenth Century
Barbara Correll
Toward a Political Philology of the Early Modern Commodity
Martha Donkor
Empire within empire: Struggles for Supremacy between the Asante and British in the Gold Coast
Mary Gallagher
Constructing Commercial Identity: United States Trade in a Mercantile World, 1776-1790 |
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Panel #13 |
In Defense of Identity: Nationalism, Imperialism, and Anti-British Sentiment in Colonies & Early Republic: |
White Oak Room |
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Chair: John Belohlavek
Ryan Carey
Anglophobia on the Edge of Empire, 1776-1846
Matthew Rainbow Hale
Anticipating the Future: Formulations of American National Identity and the Limits of Anglophobia, 1789-1792
Sam Haynes
"Looking John Bull Straight in the Eye": Defensive Imperialism and the American Postcolonial Identity
John Maass
North Carolina and the Shaping of a Colonial Identity |
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| 11:45 am - 1:00 pm |
Lunch |
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| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
Plenary Address:
Ira Berlin, University of Maryland
The Plantation Order, Atlantic Creoles, and Writing Atlantic History |
Auditorium |
| 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
Session #2 |
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Panel #1 |
Identity, Ethnicity, and Religion in the Black Atlantic: |
Maple Room |
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Chair and Commentator: Douglas Chambers
Timothy Buckner
Creating an African American Community on the Frontier of Slavery: Kinship and Identity in Natchez, Mississippi
Kevin Dawson
A Culture of Cleanliness: West African Slaves’ Impact on Western Hygienic Practices
Kevin Roberts
Kongo,' 'Congo,' and Catholic: In Search of Afro-Catholics in Africa and Louisiana, 1790-1810
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Panel #2 |
Violence and Resistance (I): |
Alexander Room |
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Chair: Lisa Levenstein
Marcela Echeverri
Political Culture in Late Colonial New Granada: Popular Royalism in Tuquerres’ 1800 Uprising
Charles Foy
Freedom and Profit: How Fugitive Slaves Used New York Privateers During the Seven Years' War To Transform Themselves and Obtain Freedom
Melanie Perreault
Wilderness, Identity, and Native American Resistance in Early America |
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Panel #3 |
Women and Early American Colonialism: |
Claxton Room |
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Chair and Commentator: Cynthia Kierner
Marcia Blaine
Female Captives of Northern New England: Imposed Dependence and Negotiated Agency
James O'Neil Spady
Creek Women and Colonialism in the 1790s: Responses to Federal Civilization
Karen Weyler
Deborah Sampson's Quest for Celebrity: The Interplay of Performance, Print, and Public Identity in the Early Republic |
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Panel #4 |
Clothing and Identity: |
Joyner Room |
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Chair: Karin Baumgartner
Eric Gary Anderson
"Make Room for the Spanjards": Nationalist Cross-Dressing and Native Cultural Authority in the Captivity Narrative of Jonathan Dickinson
Wendy Lucas Castro
Cultural Transvestites: Dress and Identity on the Early American Frontier
Robert DuPlessis
Tailoring Identities in the British and French New World |
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Panel #5 |
Slavery and Servitude (I): |
Dogwood Room |
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Chair: Thomas Jackson
Thomas Brown and Leah C. Sims
Slave Ethnicities and Community Memory in the Colonial Chesapeake
Maurice Jackson
Anthony Benezet’s Vision of Africa and Africans: Enslaved and Free |
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Panel #6 |
Racial Re-Definition and Atlantic Geography: |
Azalea Room |
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Chair: Stephen Stallcup
Sara Beckjord
Fictions of Identity and Empire in Colonial 19th-century Cuba
Rick Cogley
Banned in Boston: The Lost Tribes of Israel and Seventeenth-Century American Puritanism
Jean Feerick
Transplantation and Degeneration: Writing Englishness in the West Indies |
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Panel #7 |
Family |
Benbow Room |
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Chair: Jeffrey Jones
Rebecca Goetz
Race, Identity, and Godparentage in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
Edward Tebbenhoff
Children’s Names in New Netherland, New York, and New Jersey, 1639-1800 |
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Panel #8 |
Myths of Imperial Inheritance (II): |
Elm Room |
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Chair: Mary Ellis Gibson
Lila Ellen Gray
Memories of Empire, Mythologies of the Soul: Fado Performance and the Shaping of Saudade
Anita R. Rose
Petticoat Government: The Feminization of Empire in Utopia
Roberta Rosenberg
The (Con)Founding of America: Strategies for Approaching Jamestown 2007 in a Postcolonial Age
paper will be read by Mary Ellis Gibson |
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Panel #9 |
Religious Confessions and Public Identity (II): |
Long Leaf Pine Room |
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Chair: Kathleen Franz
Tamara Harvey
"My Spirit did not cease its travels": Rethinking the Division between Public and Private in the Life of Marie de l’Incarnation
Jenny Shaw
English Policy and Irish Catholicism: Religion and Crisis in the Caribbean, 1640-1679
Note: paper will be read by Lauren Benton
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Panel #10 |
Spanish America: |
Ferguson Room |
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Chair: Jennifer R. Ottman
R. Jovita Baber
The Construction of the Empire and Native Identity: Tlaxcalans' Alliance with the Spanish Crown
Andrew Fisher
Witnessing a "New Epoch…Ready to Dawn": The Circuitous Career of Juan Antonio Olavarrieta, Wayward Cleric and Aspiring Radical
Jennifer R. Ottman
"That Their Gods Could Not Free Them from the Hands of the Spaniards": Liberation, Law, and Covenant in Bernardino de Sahagún, OFM (ca. 1499 - 1590) |
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Panel #11 |
Migration and Immigration: |
Sharpe Room |
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Chair: Colleen Kriger
Robert Alderson
Intrigue in the Holy City: Charleston, South Carolina, During the Early Years of the French Revolution, 1792-1794
Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe
The Construction of African-Indian Racial and
Cultural Identities in Antebellum Indian Territory
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Panel #12 |
Metaphysical Poets and Physical Conquest (Special Session in Library Special Collections): |
Hodges Reading Room,
Jackson Library |
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Chair: Christopher Hodgkins
Thomas Festa
The Evangelical Commodity: Labor in John Donne’s Sermon to the Virginia Company
William Finley
Special Collections - Rare Book Display: Metaphysics of Empire: George Herbert,
John Donne, and John Milton on Atlantic Colonization and
Conquest
Christopher Hodgkins
George Herbert, Samuel Daniel, and the Augustinian Critique of Empire |
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| 3:30 pm - 5:15 pm |
Wine and Cheese Reception |
Auditorium Lobby |
| 5:30 pm - 7:15 pm |
Banquet |
Cone Ballroom |
| 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm |
Let My People Go: The Trials of Bondage in the Words of Master and Slave
A Play by Brenda P. Schleunes and Loren L. Schweninger. Performed by the Touring Theatre Ensemble of North Carolina. |
Auditorium |
Saturday, September 18
Click here for Friday Program
| 8:45 am - 9:00 am |
Welcome:
Timothy Johnston, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, UNC-Greensboro |
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| 9:00 am - 10:00 am |
Plenary Address:
Barry Gaspar, Duke University
A Widening Atlantic Net: Identity,
Repatriation, and the African Struggle Against Enslavement in the Early Eighteenth Century.
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Auditorium |
| 10:00 am-10:30 am |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Session #3 |
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Panel #1 |
Shorter Options in a Longer Century: The Course of Identities in the 18th Century Atlantic World: |
Maple Room |
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Chair and Commentator: Michael Zuckerman
Katherine Carte-Engel
Crossing Boundaries: The Eighteenth-Century Moravian Phenomenon and Atlantic World Identity
Richard Demirjian
Beyond Periphery: Identities and Interests in the Mid-Atlantic World, 1787-1807
Len von Morzé
Rustic Bards and Republican Centaurs: The
Transatlantic Construction of Scots-Irish Identities |
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Panel #2 |
Ethnicity in the New World: |
Alexander Room |
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Chair: Peter Carmichael
Justin A. Pariseau
A Separate World: Black Nantucket and the Fight for Equality, 1769 – 1858
Bill Pencak
Class, Jews, and Citizenship in the Early American Republic
Shane Runyon
Racial Fluidity on the Atlantic Frontier, the Story of Francisco Menendez Marques |
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Panel #3 |
Class and Gender in Colonial America: |
Kirkland Room |
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Chair: Karen Weyler
Michelle Burnham
Colonial Class Trouble: Thomas Morton's Economy and Aesthetics of Inflation
Erika Gasser
Witches, Indians and the Reproduction of English Gender Norms in Seventeenth-Century New England
Felicia Smith-Kleiner
Imagined Cartographies of the Wifely Body: Sexual Conquest and Contest in Colonial North America |
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Panel #4 |
Violence and Resistance (II): |
Auditorium |
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Chair: Hal Langfur
Hal Langfur
Colonists and Cannibals: The Practice and Discourse of Frontier Atrocities in Brazil’s Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Forest
Noeleen McIlvenna
An Alliance for Freedom: Cary's Rebellion and the Tuscarora War, North Carolina, 1711-13
Carmen Nocentelli-Truett
The Dutch Black Legend |
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Panel #5 |
New World Teaching: |
Joyner Room |
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Chair: Lisa Tolbert
Meri L. Clark
Race Relations and Nationhood in the Early Republican Classroom: Caribbean Colombia, 1820-1840
Janet Whatley
Teaching “The New World” to First-Year College Students
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Panel #6 |
Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: |
Dogwood Room |
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Chair: Michelle Dowd
Jolanda Y. Cornish
Different perspectives from which to consider Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Deborah M. Scaggs
" Other-Fashioning": Constructing Identity of ‘Others’ in Exploration Narratives and in Oroonoko
Andrew P. Williams
Voice and Vision: The Body as Signifier in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko |
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Panel #7 |
Publication and Identity: |
Azalea Room |
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Chair: Katherine McGinnis
Phyllis Hunter
Spectacles of Empire: Reading the Foreign News in Early America
Gregory A. Wilson
Between Piracy and Justice: Liminality in Maxwell Philip's Emmanuel Appadocca |
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Panel #8 |
Competition, Conflict, and Consensus in the Formation of Atlantic Identities: |
Benbow Room |
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Chair and Commentator: Mark Thompson
Laura Cruz
Double Dutch: The Atlantic World and the Formation of Dutch National Identity
Frank Luca
Split Personalities: Issues of Identity Crisis among Interpreters and Culture Brokers in the Atlantic World
Scott Philyaw
The Atlantic Worlds of William Byrd of Westover
paper will be read by Jason E. Farr |
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Panel #9 |
Race, Space, and Atlantic Geography: |
Elm Room |
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Chair: Nicholas Crawford
Ian Chambers
Spatial Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Linda M. Rupert
Common Voices: The Development of an Iberian Creole Language in the Dutch Caribbean (working title)
Robert S. Shelton
Becoming Southern: The Racial Odyssey of Galveston's European Immigrants, 1850-1870 |
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| 12:00 pm- 1:30 pm |
Lunch |
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| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Session #4 |
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Panel #1 |
The Construction of Race and Class in the Atlantic World: |
Maple Room |
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Chair and Commentator: Laura Edwards
Thomas Humphrey
Tenants and Revolution: Class in the New York Countryside
Allan Kulikoff
Benjamin Franklin and the Construction of an Atlantic Bourgeoisie
Marisa Huerta
"This country wants nothing but to be people'd with a well-born Race": The Centrality of "Race" in the Construction of New World Identity |
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Panel #2 |
Utopian/Disutopian Visions of the Americas: Peoples, Places and Identities in the Atlantic World: |
Alexander Room |
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Chair: Patricia Pinho
Patricia Pinho
Finding "Africa" in the Americas
Sharon Hartman Strom
E.G. Squier and the North American Gaze in Central America
Frederick Stirton Weaver
Identity Politics and Voluntary Exile: Post-Civil War Confederates in Latin America |
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Panel #3 |
Native American Religious Performance in Early American Literature: |
Kirkland Room |
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Chair: Kristina Bross
Joshua David Bellin
Native Revivals: Antebellum Indian Autobiography as Protest and Performance
Kristina Bross
Tears of Repentance: Praying Indians in England
Zubeda Jalalzai
Performing the Covenant: Native American Conversion in the Colony and the Nation |
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Panel #4 |
Slavery and Servitude (II): |
Auditorium |
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Chair: Watson Jennison
Sean Kelley
Wandering in the Wilderness: Texas Slaves and the Idea of the Frontier, 1821-1860
Daniel Mandell
"We have prejudice to fight, and capital too": Subaltern Indians, Race, and Class in Early America
Amar Wahab
Orientalist Re-Inventions: Representations of Indentured Coolies in the Nineteenth-Century West Indies |
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Panel #5 |
Slaves, Settlers, and Southerners: The Transatlantic Dialogue and British Readings of the American Nation in the Victorian Era: |
Joyner Room |
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Chair and Commentator: Jamie Bronstein
Hugh Dubrulle
Making a Nation: British Commentators Construct the South during the American Civil War, 1861-1865
Kathrin Levitan
Empire, Slavery and the Census: British Interpretations of U.S. Racial Statistics, 1840-1865
Monica Rico
Encountering the Great West: Transatlantic Frontier Narratives in the Late Nineteenth Century
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Panel #6 |
Dramatizing Race: |
Dogwood Room |
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Chair: Joseph Goeke
Sara Babcox First
Trope or Circumstance: Performances of White Male Anxiety in the Antebellum North
Kenneth T. Rainey
Race and Reunion in Nineteenth-Century Reconciliation Drama
Peter Reed
Black Rovers and Obi-Women: Performing Circum-Atlantic Identity in Nineteenth-Century Nautical Melodrama |
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Panel #7 |
Religion and Culture in the Making of Catholic Atlantic Identities: |
Azalea Room |
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Chair and Commentator: Jodi Bilinkoff
Scott Eastman
Españoles, Españoles Americanos y Mexicanos: Regional Prisms of Identity during the Wars of Independence
Erin Kathleen Rowe
Santiago, Spiritual Conquistador of New Spain
Clinton Young
American Music, Spanish Identity: The Case of Zarzuela |
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Panel #8 |
The Other “Other”: Foreigners in the American Republics, 1789-1848: |
Benbow Room |
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Chair and Commentator: Lauren Benton
Douglas Bradburn
Human Rights and Hyphenated Citizen: The Immigrant Resistance to Alien and Sedition Acts
Jordana Dym
Citizen of Which Republic?: Foreigners and the Construction of Citizenship in Revolutionary Central America, ca. 1808-1845
Erika Pani
Saving the Nation through Exclusion |
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Panel #9 |
Beyond Text and Context: The Theory and Practice of Interdisciplinary Pedagogy: |
Elm Room |
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Stephen Biel, Timothy P. McCarthy, Jeanne Follansbee Quinn
Round table discussion with current & former members of the Harvard University History & Literature Faculty |
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| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
Plenary Address:
Stephen J. Greenblatt, Harvard University
Othello on the Threshold |
Auditorium |
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