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The NYU Atlantic History Workshop convenes in New York City within Lenapehoking, the lands historically inhabited by the Lenape people. Our workshop strives to create an open space for academic conversation in which values of equity, diversity, and inclusion are upheld in an atmosphere of mutual respect. We urge consideration for others at all times, from the affirmative use of preferred pronouns to the avoidance of offensive language. Welcome one and all!
Fall 2024 MEETINGS:
September 10
Meredith Martin, New York University
“An Art Collector and an Abolitionist: Invisible Lives from the Plantations of Saint- Domingue and the Paris Art World”
September 24
Matthew Crow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
“The Experience of Discretion: Legality and the Politics of Power at Sea in Herman Melville’s Redburn and White-Jacket”
October 8
Zachary Bennett, Norwich University
TBA
October 22
Anelise H. Shrout, Bates College
TBA
November 5
Miguel Valerio, Washington University in St. Louis
“Afro-Catholic Festive Spaces: Black Irmandades’ Celebrations”
November 19
Hermann von Hesse, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
TBA
December 3
Kathryn Walkiewicz, University of California San Diego
Spring 2025 MEETINGS:
January 28
Susanah Romney, New York University
TBA
February 11
Robert Morrissey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
February 25
Elise Mitchell, Swarthmore College
TBA
March 11
Juan José Ponce Vázquez, The University of Alabama
TBA
April 1
Alaina E. Roberts, University of Pittsburgh
TBA
April 15
Natalie Zacek, The University of Manchester
TBA
April 29
Emma Hart, The University of Pennsylvania
TBA
Spring 2024 MEETINGS:
January 30
Matthew Francis Rarey, Oberlin College
“Cartographic Anxieties: On Maps, Blackness, and Fugitivity in 1763”
February 13
Mackenzie Cooley, Hamilton College
“The Pharmacopeia That Wasn’t: The Hernández Expedition and Spanish-American Natural Products”
February 27
Ndubueze Mbah, SUNY Buffalo
“Abolition’s Bodies”
March 12
Cristina Soriano, University of Texas Austin
“1760 – 1780 | Imperial Eyes on Trinidad: Bourbon Reforms and the Peripheral Caribbean”
April 2
Yuko Miki, Fordham University
“Boston • Congo • Amazon: Death and Life in the Illegal Slave Trade”
April 9
Hannah Farber, Columbia University
“Small Causes: Justices of the Peace in Revolutionary America”
April 23
Brooke Bauer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“He ‘asked for one of their children’: Schooling Catawba Indian Children”
April 26th- April 27th
CONFERENCE: Fluid Ways of Being and Relating: Gender and Belonging in the
Atlantic
May 7 – CANCELLED
*James Buss’s presentation will be rescheduled at a later date.
Fall 2023 MEETINGS:
September 19
Martín Bowen-Silva, NYU Abu Dhabi
“The Republic of Equals: Abolitionism and the Anticolonial Conspiracy of 1780 in Chile”
October 3
Anelise Shrout, Bates College
“Against Violent Quantification: Lessons from the Bellevue Almshouse Project”
October 17
Paul Cohen, University of Toronto
“The Social History of a Linguistic Learning Curve: French Missionaries and Indigenous Languages in New France”
October 31
Nemata Blyden, University of Virginia
“A Family in Diaspora: A Family History of Life in the Atlantic World and Elsewhere”
November 14
Caroline Wigginton, University of Mississippi
“In Search of the Modern Type: Angel de Cora’s Indigenous Book Illustration and the Work of Abstraction”
November 28
Sinclair Thomson, NYU New York
“Insurgent Temporality: Tupac Amaru in History and Myth (Peru, 1781)”
December 12
Casey Schmitt, Cornell University
“‘They Took Him to Sea’: Captivity and Violence in the Anarchic Period, 1630-1650″
Spring 2023 MEETINGS:
January 24
Coll Thrush, The University of British Columbia
“Everything That Comes Ashore Is Mine: The Pacific World Wrecks on an Indigenous Coast”
February 7
Aisha Finch, Emory University
“Of Time and Sugar: Plantation Temporality and the Enslaved Body in Nineteenth-Century Cuba”
February 21
Jody Benjamin, UC Riverside
“The Politics of Dress at Saint Louis during the Age of Islamic Revolution, 1785-1815”
March 28 (Zoom Only)
James F. Brooks, University of Georgia
“From Tóraigh Island to Apache Creek: A Cherokee Lineage Odyssey”
April 11
Joan Bristol, George Mason University
“Alienation and Belonging in Two Diasporas: An African-Descent Crypto-Jew Navigates the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Empire”
April 25
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, UC Berkeley
“Women of the British Atlantic Slave Trade”
Fall 2022 MEETINGS:
September 27
Andrew Lee, New York University
“Districte V:Barri Xinès:Barrio Chino- Moral Panics, Folk Devils, and Social Control in Republican Barcelona”
October 18
Sean Harvey, Seton Hall University
“Revolutionary Colonialism and the French Atlantic: Albert Gallatin in Maine and the Western Country, 1780-1786”
November 1
Kelly Wisecup, Northwestern University
“Birchbark Bookmaking, Indigenous Representation, & Genealogies of Native American Literature”
November 15
Kate Mulry, California State University, Bakersfield
“Environment and Reproduction in the Early English Atlantic”
November 29
Rebecca Goetz, New York University
“The Guayquerís and the Dragon”
Spring 2022 MEETINGS:
January 25
Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers University
“Valuing Mexico City”
February 8
Andrew Johnson, Ph.D, Rice University 2018
“The Collapse of Native Slaving and Rise of Rice Agriculture: Enslaved Native Americans in South Carolina, 1700—1720”
February 22
Gabriel Rocha, Brown University
“Runaway Ecologies: Colonial Environments and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Marronage, 1480s-1530s”
March 8
Jack Bouchard, Rutgers University
“Fishwork, Migrations and Social Organization in the Sixteenth-Century Northwest Atlantic”
March 29
Claire Gherini, Fordham University
“Experiments on a Shoestring: the Threadbare Nature of Medical Knowledge-Making in the Plantation Caribbean”
April 12
Fidel Tavárez, Queens College of the City University of New York
“Informed Governance: The Visita General and Imperial Policymaking in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic”
April 26
Samantha Seeley, University of Richmond
“Bound by Treaty: Emancipation and Diplomacy in the Northern Borderlands”
Fall 2021 MEETINGS:
September 14
Honor Sachs, University of Colorado
“The Story of Judith”
September 28
Michael Blaakman, Princeton University
“Preemptive Property: Native Power, Unceded Land, and Speculation in the Early Republic.”
October 19
Isadora Mota, Princeton University
“African Lives and Grassroots Diplomacy in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.”
November 2
Natasha Lightfoot, Columbia University
“I Determined to Effect My Escape”: The 1855 Flight of Fugitive Cosmopolitan John Ross”
November 16
Jimmy Sweet, Rutgers University
“Chapter 1: Kinship, Intermarriage, and the Fur Trade: The Emergence of the MixedAncestry Dakota Community, 1650-1815”
November 30
Kirsten Schultz, Seton Hall University
“Taxing Gold and Taxing Slaves: American Social Order and Empire”
December 14
Michael Witgen, Columbia University
“Chapter 5: Indigenous Land and Black Lives: The Politics of Exclusion and Privilege in the Old Northwest”
Spring 2021 MEETINGS:
January 26
Elise Mitchell, New York University
“The Specter of Smallpox and the Slave Trade to the Caribbean”
February 9
Rajender Kaur, William Paterson University
Mastering the “Mysteries of Squeezing,” Spying, and Land Surveying- American Enterprise and Imperial Subjectivity in Bartholomew Burges’ A Series of Indostan Letters (1790)
February 23
Paul Kelton, Stony Brook University
“Irish Emigration to the U.S. and Pandemic Cholera, 1832”
March 9
Mary Hicks, Amherst College
“Ports of Sanctuary: Maritime Marronage , Imperial Law and the Judicial Imaginary of Enslaved Mariners in the South Atlantic”
March 23
Christine DeLucia, Williams College
On the Trail of Samson Occum, Ooskcoweeg: Up-Biblum God, Cross-cultural Marketplaces, and the Afterlives of Translated Print Culture
April 6
Pablo Gómez, University of Wisconsin–Madison
“Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Atlantic”
April 20
Jordan Alexander Stein, Fordham University
“Haiti and Other Problems in the History of the Book”
Fall 2020 MEETINGS:
September 15
Jessica Marie Johnson, Johns Hopkins University
“Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World: A Student-Centered Conversation”
September 29
Lila O’Leary Chambers, New York University
“Of Consuming Women: Alcohol and Gender in the Gold Coast Slaving Complex, 1670-1705”
October 13
Erika Edwards, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“Mejorando la Raza in Córdoba, Argentina: Anti-Blackness, the Black Family, and the Royal Pragmatic of 1776”
October 27
Scott Manning Stevens, Syracuse University
“Taking Names: Cartography, Dispossession, and Reclamation in the Haudenosaunee Homelands”
November 10
Sarah Gronningsater, University of Pennsylvania
“Poor Law, Slave Law, and the Golden Rule: Quaker Antislavery and the Early Modern Origins of Gradual Abolition Policy”
December 1
Caylin Carbonell, The American Antiquarian Society
“Geographies of Dependence: Space, Movement, and Authority in Colonial New England”
December 15
Chernoh Sesay Jr., DePaul University
“‘in every nation he finds a friend’: Settlement, Mobility and the Social Origins of African American Freemasonry”
ARCHIVE:
Spring 2020 MEETINGS:
January 28
Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Georgia
“‘She persisted in her revolt’: Between Slavery and Freedom in Saint-Domingue”
February 11
Christian Crouch, Bard College
“Queen Victoria’s Captives: The Daughters’ Tale”
February 25
Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta
“Technologies of Empire: Material Culture, Racialization and Resistance in the Atlantic World, c. 1600-1820″
Appendix (figures).
March 10
Jen Manion, Amherst College
“Taxonomies of Transing Gender in the 19th Century Newspapers” [Presentation postponed until next year.]
March 31
Pablo F. Gómez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Seventeenth-Century Iberian Atlantic” [Presentation postponed until next year.]
April 14
Nora Slonimsky, Iona College
“‘The Omission of Some Words and the Transporting of Others’: Piracy, Libel, and Public Perception in 1790s Transnational Publishing”
April 24 & 25
Cancelled Conference: Mobility and Movement in Atlantic History
April 28
Daniel Strum, University of São Paulo
“Trade and Lawsuits across the Atlantic: litigation involving Sephardic and converso traders in sixteenth and seventeenth century Amsterdam, Porto and Brazil”
Fall 2019 MEETINGS:
September 10
Kristen Block, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Leprosy, Shame, and Sensibility: Towards a History of Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century French Antilles”
September 24
Michael Ralph, New York University
“Before 13th: The Origin of Convict Leasing”
October 8
Don James McLaughlin, University of Tulsa
“Peripheral Aberrations: Microscopy and the Resilience of Miasma at the Dawn of Germ Theory.”
October 22
Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Cornell University
“Face Off: Itinerant Portraits in the Era of Tupac Amaru.”
November 5
Alexander Manevitz, Trinity College
“Where ‘Death Himself Hesitates to Enter’: The Social Destruction of Seneca Village and the Struggle for Environmental Control in Antebellum New York City”
November 19
Sophie White, University of Notre Dame
“‘Said, without being asked…’ Slavery, Testimony and Autobiography”
December 3
Laura Stevens, University of Tulsa
“John Marrant’s Missionary Fantasies: In Quest of a Cherokee Perspective”
Spring 2019 MEETINGS:
January 29
Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside
“Bombas de Fuego: The 1702 Siege of San Agustín”
February 12
Jacob Lee, Penn State, College of the Liberal Arts
“Lines and Circles: Networks and Regions in Early America”
February 26
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, University of Buffalo
“Refugees and Resettlement: Haudenosaunee People at Buffalo Creek”
March 26
Vincent Brown, Harvard University*
April 9
Timo McGregor, New York University
“Contracting Subjects: Negotiating Rights for Mobile Subjects in Anglo-Dutch Suriname, 1654-1675”
April 23
Daniel H. Usner, Vanderbilt University
“‘A prospect of the grand sublime’: An Atlantic World Borderland Seen and Unseen by William Bartram”
* Presented in partnership with the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at NYU
Fall 2018 MEETINGS:
September 18
Marcela Echeverri, Yale University
“The Politics of Pacific Anti-Abolition”
October 2
Karin Wulf, The College of William & Mary
“Oceans of Kin- Trafficking TransAtlantic Genealogies in 18th Century British America”
October 16
Jenny Shaw, The University of Alabama
“Susannah Mingo’s Story: A Biography of a Woman of Color in the Early English Atlantic.”
October 30
Simon Newman, University of Glasgow
“Freedom-seeking slaves in England and Scotland, 1700-1780”
November 13
Travis Glasson, Temple University
“A Whig Killing for the King: John Harris Cruger and the Revolution’s Civil War”
November 27
Sasha Turner, Quinnipiac University
“Abba- Grief, Sympathy, and the Negotiation Motherhood and Slavery.”
December 4
Laura Spero, University of Pennsylvania
“Sifting Women and Gendering in the Shawnee Diaspora”
Spring 2018 MEETINGS:
February 13
Rachel Walker, University of Maryland
“Reading Women’s Bodies in a Transatlantic World.”
February 27
Kate de Luna, Georgetown University
“The Languages of Atlantic History: A Perspective from Central Africa.”
March 20
Deborah Hamer, William and Mary
“Writing Trouble: Oral Communication and Governance in the Seventeenth Century Dutch Colonial World.”
April 3
Hyunhee Park, The City University of New York
“Alcohol Globalism: Transfers of Distillation Technology from Eurasia to Mexico.”
April 9 (at 5 pm in KJCC 701)
Keila Grinberg, NYU & Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
“The Two Enslavements of Rufina: Illegal Enslavement and International Relations in Nineteenth-Century South America.”
April 17
Mairin Odle, The University of Alabama
“Signs and Signatures: Tattoos, Land, and Transferring the Unsellable”
April 20-21st
Conference: (En)gendering the Atlantic World
May 1
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Bryn Mawr College
Ball of Confusion: The Temptations of a Center/Periphery Framework in the Study of ‘Early Expansion’
Fall 2017 MEETINGS:
September 12
Matthew Dennis, University of Oregon
“The Politics and Ecology of Colonialism in the Early American Republic: Development, Conservation, and Seneca Sovereignty.”
September 26
Hannah Farber, Columbia University
“Insure, Britannia! Risk in the Maritime Empire, 1622-1776.”
October 10
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
“An Alternative Path to Modernity: The Economic Dimension.”
October 24
Hayley Negrin, New York University and McNeil Center for Early American Studies
“She would not leave her daughter behind her’: Matrilineal Kinship, Southeastern Native Women, and Racial Slavery in the English Atlantic.”
November 7
Zeb Tortorici, New York University
“Women at the Margins of the Unnatural: Abortion, Infanticide, and Miscarriage in Colonial New Spain.”
November 16, 6-8PM (Special Event)
Hemispheric Institute, 5th floor Conference Room
Marcus Rediker
“The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist”
November 21
Kirsten Fischer, University of Minnesota
“Fellow Travelers: Freethinkers in New York City, 1796.”
December 5
Linford Fisher, Brown University
“‘Similar to that of negroes from the Coast of Africa’: The Persistence of Indian Slavery in the English Atlantic and the United States [1750-1810].”
Spring 2017 MEETINGS:
January 31
Christopher Pastore, State University of New York, Albany
“So Many Shores: Thalassography, Ecology, and Legality Among the Margins of the British Atlantic World.”
February 14
John Dixon, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
“Early Modern Jews and the Central Paradoxes of Atlantic History.”
Generously co-sponsored by The Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish Studies, New York University.
February 28
Karen Kupperman, New York University
“Child Actors in Early Virginia.”
No pre-circulated paper for this meeting.
March 21
Alex Borucki, University of California, Irvine
“Slaves, Silver, and Atlantic Empires: The Slave Trade to Spanish South America, 1660-1810.”
April 4
Cornelia Dayton, University of Connecticut
“Depraved or Mad?: Race, Exclusion, and Carework in New Englanders’ Responses to Mental Disabilities.”
April 18
Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University
“The History of ‘Refuse Slaves’ and Theorizing Death in Atlantic Port Cities”
Introduction to Dispossessed Lives
May 2
Dagomar Degroot, Georgetown University
“‘One storm, one flood, one fire destroyed it all’ : Cultural Responses to Climate Change in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic.”
Fall 2016 MEETINGS:
September 13
Daniel Strum, University of Sao Paulo
“Governing the Early Expansion of the Atlantic Trade: Brazil, Portugal and the Netherlands, 1595-1618.”
September 27
Rebecca Goetz, New York University
“Land, Planters, and Enslaved Indians: The Case of the Nanziattico, 1704-1706.”
October 11
Jennifer Anderson, Stony Brook University
“Long Island’s ‘Sugar Barons’: Knowledge Production and Efforts to Integrate the Atlantic Economy in the 18th Century.”
October 25
Celia Naylor, Barnard College
“The Rose Hall Plantation: The Legend of the White Witch and the (Ghost) Site/Sightings of Slavery.”
November 8
Martin Bowen Silva, New York University Abu Dhabi
“Waiting for the Mail: Emotions, Imperial Politics, and the Origins of the Public Sphere in Chile, 1780-1812.”
November 22
Eleanor Hubbard, Princeton University
“Unruly Subjects: English Sailors in the Atlantic World, 1580-1625.”
December 6
Benjamin Breen, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Fetishizing Drugs: Magic and Medicine in West Central Africa, 1660-1740.”
SPRING 2016 MEETINGS:
February 2
Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University – Cancelled. Rescheduled workshop TBD.
February 16
Kathleen M. Brown, University of Pennsylvania
“Free, Requited, or Family Labor: “Free” Labor Produce in the Antebellum U.S.”
March 1
Vera Candiani, Princeton University
“What is colonization? A proposal for a redefinition from Atlantic early modernity.”
March 22
Natalie Zemon Davis*
“Dealing With Strangeness: Language and Information Flow in an Early Modern Slave Society”
* Visit to include workshop and an evening lecture co-sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Center at NYU. The evening lecture will be from 6:00 – 8:00 PM at 19 University Place, 1st Floor, Great Room.
April 5
Forrest Hylton, Northwestern University
“‘The Sole Owners of Their Land’: Empire, Law, and Warfare in the Guajira Peninsula (New Granada), 1769-1790.”
April 19
Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina
“Bernardo de Gálvez and Marie Felice de St. Maxent in Imperial and Revolutionary New Orleans”
May 3
No workshop session this week, but please join us for the conference over the weekend!
May 6th-May 7th
CONFERENCE: Experimentation and Expertise: Flows of Knowledge in the
Atlantic World
FALL 2015 MEETINGS:
September 15
Edgardo Pérez-Morales, New York University
“Les Cayes, Cartagena, and the Fate of Tierra Firme in the Age of Revolutions”
September 29
Julie Kim, Fordham University
“Gardening at the Edge of Caribbean Empire”
October 20
Jennifer Morgan, New York University
“‘Numbered Like a Beast’: Numeracy and Race in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic.”
October 27
Richard Bushman, Columbia University
“The American Farmer in the Enlightenment”
November 10
Alison Games, Georgetown University
“Inventing the Amboyna Massacre”
November 24
Clifford Siskin, New York University
“System and History: An Enlightenment Tale.”
(Paper will not be pre-circulated)
December 8
Thomas Wickman, Trinity College
“Snowshoes and Counter-Atlantic Spaces”
SPRING 2015 MEETINGS:
February 10
Jennifer Baker, NYU
“Emerson, Embryology, and Culture”
February 24
Chris Parsons, Northeastern University
“Discovering a New France: Biogeography and Empire in French North America”
March 10
Kate Mulry, Haverford College
“‘They Will Mix and Interchange their Colours’: Inoculation and Questions of Heredity in the Early Eighteenth-Century Anglo Atlantic”
March 24
Mairin Odle, NYU
“‘Wild Hieroglyphics’ and ‘Great Signs’: Tattoos and Indigenous Literacies”
April 7
Lauren Benton, NYU
“Shadows of Sovereignty: Legal Encounters and the Politics of Protection in the Atlantic World”
April 21
David Silverman, George Washington University
“Opening the Gun Frontier: The Indian Arms Race of the Eastern Woodlands”
May 11
*SPECIAL EVENT* in the King Juan Carlos Center Auditorium, 12:30pm
Mariza de Carvalho Soares, University of Chicago/Universidade Federal Fluminense
“Friendship and Diplomacy Between Portugal and Dahomey in the Era of the Slave Trade, 1810-1812”
FALL 2014 MEETINGS:
September 9
Karl Jacoby, Columbia University
“‘Gone to Texas’: Slavery and Freedom Along the Texas-Mexico Border”
September 23
Sinclair Thomson, New York University
“Sovereignty Disavowed: The Tupac Amaru Revolution in the Atlantic World”
October 7
Marjoleine Kars, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“Dodging Rebellion: Politics and Gender in the Berbice Slave Uprising of 1763”
October 21
Steven Pincus, Yale University
“The Stamp Act Crisis in Global Perspective”
November 4
Hal Langfur, State University of New York at Buffalo
“Making the Wilderness Wild: Private Property and Royal Sovereignty in the Backlands of Colonial Brazil”
November 18
Peter Silver, Rutgers University
“The ‘Wager’ and the ‘Revenge’: Liberation and Predation in the War of Jenkins’s Ear”
December 2
Brett Rushforth, College of William & Mary
“‘Our Interest Was Considerable There Once’: France, West Africa, and the Atlantic to 1600”
December 16
Pedro Cardim, New York University / Universidade Nova de Lisboa
“Salvador da Bahia’s City Council, its Representatives in Lisbon, and the Governance of the 17th-Century Portuguese Atlantic”
SPRING 2014 MEETINGS:
January 28
Malick Ghachem, MIT
“The Anti-Slavery Script: Haiti’s Place in the Narrative of Atlantic Revolution”
February 11
Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia
“Such Confusion as I Have Never Dreamt”: Indigenous Logics in an Unreasonable London, 1765-1793”
February 25
Audra Simpson, Columbia University
“Sovereignty, Sympathy and Indigeneity”
March 11
Herman Bennett, CUNY
“Soiled Gods: Africans into Slaves and the Making of the Atlantic World”
April 1
Paula McDowell, NYU
“‘No more dependence upon Tradition’: Defoe’s Essay Upon Literature and Eighteenth-Century Histories of Mediation”
April 15
Zeb Tortorici, NYU
“Archiving the Unnatural: Desire, Colonialism, and the Archive”
April 29
Mariana Candido, University of Kansas
“Trade, Land, and Mobility: Rethinking Women’s Economic Role in Nineteenth-century Angola”
FALL 2013 MEETINGS:
September 10
Dan Hulsebosch, NYU
“The Revolutionary Portfolio: Constitution-Making and the Wider World in the American Revolution”
September 24
Rachel St. John, NYU
“King Kalākaua’s Hawai’i: Imagining an Independent Indigenous Monarchy in the Age of Imperial Nation-states”
October 8
John Wing, College of Staten Island
“State forestry in Spain and the Spanish Ultramar”
October 22
David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
“Yucatán’s 1848: Improvising with Liberalism”
November 5
Karl Jacoby, Columbia University
“Gone to Texas: Slavery in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands”
November 19
Samantha Seeley, NYU
“Too Near Neighbors: Geography and Indian Removal in the Ohio Country”
December 3
Sophie White, University of Notre Dame
“The Elephant in the Courtroom: Voicing Resistance to Sexual Abuse in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans”
Spring 2013 Meetings:
January 29
Richard Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
The Chronicler and the Count: Law, Libel, and History in the Early Modern Atlantic World
February 12*
James Robertson, University of the West Indies
The Experience and the Imagination of a Slave Revolt: An uprising in St. Mary’s Parish, Jamaica, in 1765
February 26*
David Armitage, Harvard University and Alison Bashford, University of Sydney
The Pacific and Its Histories from Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, Peoples (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
March 12
Wendy Warren, Princeton University
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early North America
April 16
Paul Halliday, University of Virginia
Prisoners at War: A Legal Category Made at Sea
April 30
Christine DeLucia, Mount Holyoke College
Memoryscapes of Violence: Indigenous and Colonial Cultural Geographies after King Philip’s War (1675-1678)
May 7
Nicole Eustace, NYU, and Fredrika Teute, OIEAHC
Warring for Empire: The War of 1812
FALL 2012 MEETINGS:
September 11
Scott Eastman, Creighton University
The 1812 Generation: Constitutional Praxis across the Hispanic Atlantic World
September 25
Lisa Ford, University of New South Wales
Magistrates and the Reconstitution of Empire
October 9
Richard Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
The Chronicler and the Count: Law, Libel, and History in the Early Modern Atlantic World
October 30
Alejandra Dubcovsky, Yale University
Information and Power, Communication Networks in the Colonial South
November 13
Surekha Davies, Western Connecticut State University
Patagonian Giants, European Maps and the Concept of Monstrosity, 1520-1650
November 27
Marcy Norton, George Washington University
‘Animals that come tame before them….they dare not kill:’ Familiarizing Others in the Native Caribbean and South America
December 11
Stuart Schwartz, Yale University
Storms in a Spanish Sea. Perception and Providence in the early Caribbean World
SPRING 2012 MEETINGS:
24 January
Karen Auman, NYU
“English Liberties” and German settlers in Colonial America: The Georgia Salzburgers’ Conceptions of Community
31 January
Mairin Odle, NYU
“They will lay out ten to see a dead Indian”: Scalp Bounties and the Market for Body Parts
7 February
Zara Anishanslin, College of Staten Island
Transplanting Empire in the British Atlantic World: A Town, a Slave, and a Willow Called Litchfield
21 February
Nicholas Canny, Distinguished Visiting Professor University of Notre Dame and Emeritus Professor of History, National University of Ireland
“A Protestant or Catholic Atlantic World? Confessional Divisions and the Writing of Natural History”
28 February
Karoline Cook, University of Illinois
Forbidden Crossings: Moriscos and Muslims in Spanish America, 1492-1650
6 March
John Crowley, Dalhousie University
Visualizing People in Early Modern European Colonies: Indigenous Artists as Informants
20 March
Jennifer Egloff, NYU
Conceptions of Time in Shakespeare’s Plays
27 March
Lorena Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg
Changing Conceptions of “Plantership” in the Revolutionary Chesapeake
3 April
Dror Goldberg, Bar Ilan University, NYU Visiting Scholar
How Americans Invented Modern Money, 1607-1692
10 April
Cristobal Silva, Columbia University
Pandemic: Rethinking Citizenship in the Republic of Medicine, 1793–1804
17 April
Sophie Lemercier Goddard, ENS Lyon
Mirror Images in the Arctic: Fashioning a National Identity in Martin Frobisher’s Voyages (1576-78)
1 May
Aaron Slater, NYU
Towards a Prosopography of the Virginia Company
FALL 2011 MEETINGS:
13 September
Michael Gomez, NYU
Prequel as Sequel: Early West Africa and the Shape of Things to Come
**Please note that there will be no pre-circulated paper for this date
4 October
Allan Greer, McGill University
Commons and Enclosure in the Colonization of North America
18 October
Allyson Poska, University of Mary Washington
Gendering the Iberian Atlantic: Women and migration to the Rio de la Plata at the end of the colonial period
25 October
Thomas Truxes, NYU
“Prologue: Charlotte at Sea” from The Overseas Trade of British America, 1607-1775
1 November
Cristina Soriano, Villanova
The Expansion of a ´Revolutionary Disease:´ Texts from France and Saint-Domingue, and Reading Practices in Venezuela, 1790-1800
15 November
Harold Cook, Brown University
Creative Misunderstandings: Chinese Medicine in 17th-Century Europe
22 November
Jenny Shaw, University of Alabama
Beyond the Whore and the Wench: New Narratives from the Archive
6 December
Nicole Eustace, NYU
“‘Their Women Are Said to Have Thrown Their Children Into the Thames:’ Demographic Strategies and the Defeat of Tecumseh” from 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism
SPRING 2011 MEETINGS:
25 January
Aaron Slater, NYU
Commonwealths, Colonies, and Companies: Virtuous Self-Interest in the Colonial Theory of Sir Thomas Smith
1 February
Christian Crouch, Bard College
Prisoners, Explorers, and Collaborators: Veterans of New France after Conquest
8 February
Daniel Reff, Ohio State University
The Jesuit Mission Enterprise in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds, 1550-1650
22 February
Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University
A Life in Context: La Malinche in Surviving Nahuatl Sources
*ANSON G. PHELPS LECTURE*
22 February, 5-7 p.m.
Humanities Initiative, 20Cooper Square, 5th floor
Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University
The Atlantic World Medical Complex: The Circulation of Knowledge
8 March – Meeting at 11 AM
Pamela Smith, Columbia
Science in Motion in the Early Modern World
22 March
Bertie Mandelblatt, University of Toronto
Atlantic producers, Atlantic consumers?: French rum, French brandy and the emergence of the Atlantic market for distilled alcohol in the 18th century
29 March
James Merrell, Vassar College
Second Thoughts on Colonial Historians and American Indians
5 April
Greg Childs, NYU
The Problem of Conspiracy, The Challenge of Sedition: Modes of Anti-Portuguese Resistance and the 1798″Tailor’s Conspiracy” in Bahia, Brazil
(*POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2011*)
Michael Gomez, NYU
Slavery in Songhay, 1400-1600: An Invisible Ubiquity, with Implications for the New World)
12 April
Ann Fabian, Rutgers University
A Traffic in Ruins: Circuits of Ideas and Objects
19 April
Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia
Provisioning Havana: A Native American Proposal in the Revolutionary Era (Intro & Chapter 7)
FALL 2010 MEETINGS:
7 September
Eran Shalev, Haifa University
“Written in the Style of Antiquity”: Pseudo-Biblicism and the Political Theology of the Early United States
21 September
Jennifer Egloff, NYU
Mathematical Manipulations: How Individuals Acquired and Used Mathematical Skills in Early Modern England and British North America
28 September
Christen Mucher, University of Pennsylvania
Impasse Toussaint-Louverture: Cenotaphs of Slavery and Colonialism
12 October
Devin Jacob, NYU
Exercising Sovereignty: Banishment and the Courts in the East India Company’s Seventeenth-Century Empire
19 October
Ethelia Ruiz, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico
Justice for the Indian Population of New Spain: From Conquest to the Beginning of the Viceroyalty (1521-1564)
26 October
John Shovlin, NYU
Empires of Credit: International Politics in the Age of the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles
2 November
Lou Roper, SUNY New Paltz
The Ties that Bound: the Formation of Anglo-America, 1617-67
9 November
Andrew Lee, NYU
“The Anarchist Atlantic: Federica Montseny and her Critics”
and “A Tree Without Fruit, A Rosebush Without Roses” (this chapter precedes the “Anarchist Atlantic” chapter and is optional, discussion will center on “The Anarchist Atlantic”)
16 November
Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University
‘Hanging Matters’: Enslaved Women, Bodily Punishments, and Death in Colonial Bridgetown, Barbados
23 November
Alan Noonan, University College Cork
Coxe and Co.: Irish miner immigration to Pennsylvania
30 November
Karen Graubart, Notre Dame University
“So color de una cofradía”: Catholic Confraternities and the Development of African Ethnicities in Early Colonial Peru
SPRING 2010 MEETINGS:
Tuesday 2 February
Thomas Truxes, Trinity College and NYU
“The Most Beneficial and Almost Only Profitable Trade”: The Nassau Privateers and North American Shipping During the Seven Years’ War
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday 9 February
Tom Bender, NYU
The American Revolution in its Global Context
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
26-27 February
Atlantic History Conference: Atlantic Polities in the Long Eighteenth Century
26 February
Anson G. Phelps Lecture: Fredrika Teute, OIEAHC
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive”: Love and Abandon in the1790s
Tuesday 2 March
Kevin McDonald, University of California at Santa Cruz
Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves: Making an Indo-Atlantic Trade World, 1640-1730
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday 9March
Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College Dublin
Making Ireland English: The Aristocracy and Seventeenth-Century Ireland
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday 23 March
Bryan Waterman, NYU
Seduction, Speculation, and post-Revolutionary American Literary Culture: The Morton-Apthorp Affair in Boston and Beyond
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday 30 March
Tim Coates, College of Charleston
The Imperial Prison of Luanda: European Convict Labor, and Forced Emigration to the Angolan Colony, 1880-1932
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday 13 April
Kristin Block, Florida Atlantic University
Commerce, Exploitation, and the Religious Politics of the Early Caribbean
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday 27 April
Anelise Shrout, NYU
“Who is to pay? The empire? The island?”: Imperial Anxieties and the Irish Famine in London
Appendix
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Fall 2009 MEETINGS:
Tuesday 22 September
Jennifer Egloff, NYU
Keeping Track of it All: How Early Modern English and British North American People Situated Themselves in Time
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday 6 October
Holly Brewer, NCSU
Slavery and Sovereignty in Early Virginia and the British Atlantic
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday 27 October
Ned Blackhawk, Yale
“Dey Take Indian for Slave”: Visions of Enslavement in Marcus Rediker’s The Slave Ship and Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday 3 November
Leo Garofalo, Connecticut College
The Case of Diego Suarez: Defining Empire through Afro-Iberian Incorporation and Movement in the Early Ibero-American World
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday 17 November
Claire Levenson, NYU
Trade Tensions and the Consequences of Land Disputes: Georgia Settlers and Creek Indians in the Mid-Eighteenth Century Southeast
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday 1 December
Aaron Slater, NYU
An Empire of Fishermen: Domestic Challenges to English Claims of Mare Clausum
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday 8 December
James Delbourgo, Rutgers
Species of Mobility: “Sir Hans Sloane’s Milk Chocolate” and “The Whole History of the Cacao”
SPRING 2009 MEETINGS:
Tuesday, January 27–CANCELLED
*Karen Auman’s presentation has been rescheduled for April. An email will be circulated when an exact date has been confirmed.
*PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS WEEKEND
Friday and Saturday, February 20-21
Aaron Slater, NYU
“Public Projects and Private Property: Constructing a Land Regime in17th-Century Virginia.”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, March 10, 12:30 PM
John Waters, NYU
“Liberty in Louisiana? Legal and Literary Subjects in a Mixed Jurisdiction.”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, March 24, 12:30 PM
Gabriel Paquette, Trinity College Cambridge
“‘The Unhappiest Place in the World’: Portugal and Southern Africa, c. 1750-1850.”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, March 31, 12:30 PM–RESCHEDULED
*Kirsten Schultz’s presentation has been rescheduled for April 14.
Tuesday, April 7, 12:30 PM
Ada Ferrer, NYU
“Cuba in the Age of the Haitian Revolution.”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, April 14, 12:30 PM
Kirsten Schultz, Seton Hall University
“Azeredo Coutinho’s Defense of Slavery and the Luso-Brazilian Empire.”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, April 21, 12:30PM
Emily Rose
“The Merchant, The Pirate, and The Planter: Three Models of Colonial Development.”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
The King Juan Carlos Center is located at 53 Washington Square South, next doorto Judson Memorial Church (clickhere for a map).
FALL 2008 MEETINGS:
Tuesday, September 9, 12:30 pm
Organizational Meeting and Informal Introduction
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, September 16, 12:30 pm
Sally Hadden, Florida State University (bio)
“Joseph Bennett’s Legal Tourism in New England, 1740-1741”
KingJuan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, October 7, 12:30 pm
Susanne Lachenicht, Hamburg University (bio)
“Culture Clash and Hubris: The History and Historiography of Huguenots in Germany and the Atlantic World”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, October 21, 12:30 pm
Kevin Arlyck, NYU (bio)
“Prosecutors, Plaintiffs, and Privateers: Litigation, Diplomacy, and the Role of Federal Courts in Foreign Affairs, 1816-1820”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, October 28, 12:30 pm
François Furstenberg, University of Montreal (bio)
“George Washington: Transatlantic Slaveowner and Abolitionist?”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, November 11, 12:30 pm
Juliana Barr, University of Florida (bio)
“In Search of La Dama Azul (The Lady in Blue): A Genealogy of Spanish-Indian Encounters in the Borderlands”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
*ANSON G. PHELPS LECTURE*
Monday, November 17, 4:30 pm
“WORD AND IMAGE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF HOBBES”
Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities
Queen Mary, University of London (bio)
(click here for Professor Skinner’s curriculum vitae)
*This year’s Anson G. Phelps lecture is presented in cooperation with the NYU Humanities Initiative.The lecture will be held at their new facility at 20 Cooper Square (click here for a map).
Tuesday, December 2, 12:30 pm
Benjamin Carp, Tufts University (bio)
“Teapot in a Tempest: The Boston Tea Party of 1773”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, December 9, 12:30 pm
Betsy Esch, Barnard College (bio)
“‘Any Color as Long as It’s Black’: Consuming Race and Managing Nation in Ford’s Empire of Production”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
SPRING 2008 MEETINGS:
Tuesday, January 22, 12:30 pm
Fred Cooper, New York University
A discussion on Identity and Modernity
Tuesday, January 29, 12:30 pm
Elizabeth Mancke, University of Akron
Paul Grant-Costa, Yale University
Discourses of Erasure: Strategies and Counterstrategies of Dispossession in Anglo-Amerindian Commerce
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, February 12, 12:30 pm
Chris Schmidt-Nowara, Fordham University
Local Hispanisms: Spanish History and American Empire, 1898-1915
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, February 26, 12:30 pm
Clifton Crais, Emory University
Cape of Storms: Sara Baartman and the Colonial Invention of the Hottentot Venus
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, March 4, 12:30 pm
Philip J. Stern, American University
Qua panditur orbis vis unita fortior, or, just how far does the Atlantic go?: The case of the ‘Darien’ Company, 1695-1707
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, March 11, 12:30 pm
Stephan Palmi_, University of Chicago
Slavery, Historicism, and the Poverty of Memorialization
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, April 1, 12:30 pm
Nicole Eustace, New York University
*Book Party: Passion is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution, UNC Press, Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Alsosee, Nicole Eustace, “The Sentimental Paradox: Humanity and Violence on the Pennsylvania Frontier,” WMQ, 3rd ser. LXV (2008),29-64.
KingJuan Carlos Center, Room 607 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, April 15, 12:30 pm
Rebecca Cole Heinowitz, Bard College
“An Empire in Men’s Heats:” Commerce, Colonialism, and the Enlightenment Rewriting of Spanish America
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
FALL 2007 MEETINGS:
*ANSONG. PHELPS LECTURE:
Tuesday, September 18, 4:00 pm, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, screening room
Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University
“The World of Books and the World of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica”
Tuesday, September 25, 12:30 pm
Carla Pestana, Miami University of Ohio
Authorization, Protection and Identity: the ties that bound the early English Atlantic
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, October 2, 12:30 pm
John Shovlin, New York University
Selling Empire on the Eve of the Seven Years’ War: The French Propaganda Campaign of1755-56
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, October 9, 12:30 pm
Gerard Aching, New York University
Freedom From Liberation: Slavery and Literary Sensibility in Cuba
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, October 16, 12:30 pm
Chris Apap, New York University
Hostile Terrain: Washington Irving’s Deluded Histories of Exploration
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, October 30, 12:30 pm
Stephen Clucas, Birkbeck College, University of London
‘Full satisfaction for your ease’: natural philosophy, patronage and the service ethos in the Northumberland circle
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, November 6, 12:30 pm
Noah Gelfand, New York University
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, November 27, 12:30 pm
Jenny Shaw, New York University
Chapter 1 (Dissertation)
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, December 4, 12:30 pm
Pat Bonomi, New York University
The African Diaspora, Christianity, and the Law in Colonial British America
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
SPRING 2007 MEETINGS:
Tuesday, January 23, 12:30 pm
Marcela Echeverri, New York University
“‘Enraged to the limit of despair.’ Infanticide and Slave Judicial Strategies in Barbacoas, 1788-1798”
Friday, February 9 – Saturday, February 10, Conference, Glucksman Ireland House
“Rethinking Boundaries: Transformations in Methods and Approaches to Atlantic History” For details of the conference program CLICK HERE
Friday, February 16, 12:00 noon *PLEASE NOTE EXCEPTIONAL DATEAND TIME
Jean O’Brien-Kehoe, University of Minnesota
“Commemoration, Resistance, and Sovereignty in William Ape’s_s “Eulogy on King Philip””
Tuesday, February 20, 12:30 pm
Jorge Silva, New York University
“Mapping Havana’s Libres de Color: An Exploratory Essay on Free People of Color in Early-Nineteenth-Century Havana.”
Tuesday, March 6, 4:30 pm **POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2007**
Phelps Lecture: Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University
“The World of Books and the World of Slavery in Jamaica”
Tuesday, March 20, 12:30 pm
Aaron Slater, New York University
“Imperial Projects and Parliamentary Politics: The Debates on the Colonies in the Parliament of 1621”
Tuesday, March 27, 12:30 pm
Simon Middleton, Sheffield University
“Order and Authority in New Netherland. Or, was Peter Stuyvesant Really Such a Bad Guy?”
Tuesday, April 10, 12:30 pm
Dror Wahrman, Indiana University
“Invisible Hands: order and disorder, chance and providence from the 1720 ‘bubbles’ to Adam Smith”
Tuesday, April 24, 12:30 pm
Molly Nolan, New York University
Europe and America, 1890-1914: Still an Atlantic World?
FALL 2006 MEETINGS:
Monday, September 11, 12:30 pm
Jennifer Egloff, New York University
Ralegh’s Discoverie…of Guiana: A Case Study in the Early Modern Transmission of Knowledge
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, September 26, 12:30 pm
Christopher Hodson, McNeil Center
Toward a New Southern History: Empire, Enlightenment, and Old Regime France’s Encounter with Terra Australis Incognita
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, October 3, 12:30 pm
Ivar McGrath, Trinity College Dublin
Ireland and the Expansion of the British Empire in the Atlantic World, 1692-1770: Public Finance and the Army
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, October 31, 12:30 pm
Noah Gelfand, New York University
From Sugar to Molasses: The Development of Jewish Commerce in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Atlantic World
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, November 7, 12:30 pm
Lisa Voigt, University of Chicago
Navigating Anglo-Iberian Relations: Captivity and Piracy in the Early Modern Atlantic
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, November 28, 12:30 pm
William Armshaw, New York University
The Amelia Expedition: Revolutionary Piracy and the Contours of American Expansion
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, December 12, 12:30 pm
Jenny Shaw , New York University
“Worshipping God in their Hearts”: Irish Religious Practices in an English Atlantic World
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527 (53 Washington Square South)
SPRING 2006 MEETINGS:
Tuesday, January 24, 12:30 pm
Christian Crouch, New York University
“Problems of War and Honor in the French American Empire during the Seven Years’ War”
Catholic Center, 238 Thompson Street – 2nd Floor (Between Washington Square South and W.3rd Street)
Tuesday, February 7, 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Jennifer Anderson, New York University
“Veneers of Civility: The Changing Face of Mahogany in Nineteenth Century America”
Christian Crouch, New York University
“The Zeal of the King’s Arms: Legitimate War Violence and French Honor in New France”
Catholic Center, 238 Thompson Street – 2nd Floor (Between Washington Square South and W.3rd Street)
Tuesday, February 28, 4:30 pm – PLEASE NOTE EXCEPTIONAL TIMEAND LOCATION
Richard Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
Narrative and Empire: The ‘Official’ History of Spain’s Empire in the New World
King Juan Carlos Center, Portrait Room, First Floor (53 Washington Square South)
Tuesday, March 28, 12:30 pm
Kristin Block, Rutgers University/McNeil Center and Jenny Shaw, New York University
“Irish Identities and Inter-Imperial Strategies in the 17th Century”
Catholic Center, 238 Thompson Street – 2nd Floor (Between Washington Square South and W.3rd Street)
Tuesday, April 4, 12:30 pm
Alejandro Ca_eque, New York University
“On Modernity, Colonialism, and the Spanish Empire in the New World”
Catholic Center, 238 Thompson Street – 2nd Floor (Between Washington Square South and W.3rd Street)
Tuesday, April 11, 12:30 pm
April Hatfield, Texas A&M and the McNeil Center for Early American History
“Land, Sea, and Law: Jurisdiction, Borders, and Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in the Early Modern Atlantic World”
Catholic Center, 238 Thompson Street – 2nd Floor (Between Washington Square South and W.3rd Street)
Tuesday, April 18, 12:30 pm
Jennifer Morgan, New York University
“Accounting for Women in Slavery: Demography, Colonial Numeracy, and the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”
Catholic Center, 238 Thompson Street – 2nd Floor (Between Washington Square South and W.3rd Street)
FALL 2005 MEETINGS:
Tuesday, September 20, 12:30 pm
Irene Silverblatt, Duke University
“Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Friday, September 30, 12:30 pm
Atlantic World Field Discussion
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, October 4, 12:30 pm
Evan Haefeli, Columbia University
“The Long Finn and the Delaware’s 1669 Uproar: A Swedish Atlantic?”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, October 11, 12:30 pm
Ellen Gunnarsdottir, Independent Scholar
“The Counter Reformation across the Atlantic: Francisca de los Angeles and the Missionaries of Propaganda Fide”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, October 25, 12:30 pm
Pedro Machado, New York University
“The currency that is accepted in ports: Locating South Asian textiles in East Central Africa in the 18th & 19th centuries”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, November 8, 12:30 pm
Daniel Hulsebosch, New York University
“Nothing But Freedom: Somerset’s Case and the British Empire”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, November 15, 12:30 pm
****POSTPONED UNTIL JANUARY 2006****
Christian Crouch, New York University
“Almost Indian and Barely French?: Problems of War and Honor in the French American Empire during the Seven Years’ War”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, November 29, 12:30 pm. Co-Sponsored with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Language Studies
John Charles, Tulane University
“Unreliable Confessions: Ritual and Legalistic Uses of Khipu in the Colonial Andean Parish”
Catholic Center, 238 Thompson Street – 2nd Floor (Between Washington Square South and W.3rd Street)
SPRING 2005 MEETINGS:
Wednesday, January 19, 12:30
Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia
“Discourses of Abolition: Slavery as Civic Abomination”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, January 25, 12:30
Thomas Cogswell, University of California, Riverside
“’In the Power of the State’: Mr. Anys’s Project and the Tobacco Colonies, 1626-1630”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, February 15, 12:30
James Horn, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“Slaughter at Roanoak: Finding the Lost Colonists and a Tale of Two Virginias”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Wednesday, March 9, 12:30
Karen Racine, University of Guelph
“Anahuac Meets Albion: Mexicans in London, 1806-1830”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, April 5, 12:30
Choukiel-Hamel, Arizona State University
“Morocco and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, April 12, 12:30
Jean and John Comaroff, University of Chicago
“Figuring Crime: Quantifacts and the Production of the Un/Real”
“Abridged Version”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 607
Tuesday, April 26, 12:30
Jenny Shaw, New York University
“Keeping the faith: Irish Catholicism on Barbados, 1650-1700”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, May 3, 12:30
Christian Crouch, New York University
“For the Greater Glory of a Greater France: Reshaping the Correlation between the
rules of war, empire, and absolutism in relation to New France”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, May 10, 12:30
Noah L. Gelfand, New York University
“The Irrelevance of Peter Stuyvesant: Jews in New Amsterdam and New York City in the Seventeenth Century”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
FALL 2004 MEETINGS:
Tuesday, September 21, 12:30
Alison Games, Georgetown University
“Madagascar, 1635-1650: Atlantic Constraints on Indian Ocean Plantations”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, September 28, 12:30
Matt Mulcahy, Loyola College, Baltimore
“The English Encounter with Hurricanes”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, October 12, 12:30
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Bryn Mawr College
“Imperial Panama’s Rebellious Slaves in Atlantic Context”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, October 19, 12:30
John Gillis, Rutgers University
“Worlds of Loss: Atlantic Islands in the Nineteenth Century”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, October 26, 12:30
Barbara Fuchs, University of Pennsylvania
“Traveling Epic: Translating Ercilla’s Araucana in the Old World”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
****Joseph Miller’s workshop has been postponed – will berescheduled for the spring****
Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia
“Discourses of Abolition: Abolition as Discourse”
Tuesday, November 16, 12:30
Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh
“Toward a History of the Slave Ship”
King Juan Carlos Center, Auditorium
Sponsored by the History Department, Tamiment Library and the Atlantic World Workshop
There is no precirculated paper for this event
Tuesday, December 14, 12:30
Noah L. Gelfand, New York University
“A Godly Community of Merchants: Curacaoan Jewry, 1654-1732”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
SPRING 2004 MEETINGS:
Tuesday, February 10, 11:00
Jordana Dym, Skidmore
“Citizen of Which Republic?: Foreigners and the Construction of Citizenship in Revolutionary Central America,
ca.1808-1840”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 602
Tuesday, February 24, 12:30
Daniel Richter, University of Pennsylvania
“Voyagers to the East: Virginia Algonquians and the Atlantic World, 1560-1622.”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, March 9, 12:30
Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut
“Whale Meat in American History”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, April 6, 12:30
Kerry Ward, Rice University
“Disciplining Empire: soldiers, sailors, servants and slaves in the Dutch East India Company’s colony at the Cape of Good Hope, c1652-1795”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, April 13, 12:30
Jenny Shaw, NYU
““I believe them till an enemy appear”: English Anxiety, Irish Troublemakers and Imperial Struggle in the Caribbean, 1650-1713”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, April 20, 12:30
Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland
“Toward a Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: empire, location, creolization.”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, May 4, 12:30
Noah Gelfand, NYU
“Sugar and God: A Family Portrait of Sephardic Commerce and Community in Dutch Brazil”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, May 18, 12:30
Donna Merwick, Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Australia National University
“The Shame and the Sorrow: Interpreting Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
FALL 2003 MEETINGS
Tuesday, September 9, 12:30
Michael LaCombe, NYU
“Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, September 23, 12:30
Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
“The Circulation of Ideas Among ‘Atlantic Creoles’ in Nineteenth-Century Cuba”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, October 7, 12:30
Noah Gelfand, NYU
“Jacob Leisler: A Life and Death in the Atlantic World, 1640-1691”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, October 14, 12:30
Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill University.
“Settling Upon the Seas: The Forging of the Portuguese Nation in the Early Modern Atlantic”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, October 28, 12:30
John Thornton and Linda Heywood, Boston University.
“Central African Culture and Memory in Africa and the Atlantic”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, November 4, 12:30
Co-sponsored with the NYU Department of Anthropology
Richard and Sally Price, College of William and Mary.
“The Root of Roots: Or, How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 607
Tuesday, November 18, 12:30
Christian Crouch, NYU
“Deceit, Truth, and Honor before the Seven Years’ War”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, December 2, 12:30
Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University.
“Empires that Bleed: Mercantilism and Political Authority in the Iberian Atlantic”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
SPRING 2002 MEETINGS
Tuesday, February 12, 12:30
Emily Rose, Independent Scholar
Dear Mom and Dad: Send Food! Richard Freethorn’s Letter from America (1623)
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, February 26, 12:30
Linda Colley, London School of Economics & Political Science
New Trends in Imperial and Atlantic History
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Tuesday, March 5, 12:30
Elijah Gould, University of New Hampshire
Zones of Law, Zones of Violence: The Legal Geography of the British Atlantic, c. 1772
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
FALL 2001 MEETINGS
Jaap Jacobs, University of Amsterdam
“Peter Stuyvesant and the Role of the Dutch in the Atlantic World.”
Tuesday, October 30, 12:30
King Juan CarlosCenter, Room 527
Allan MacInnes, University of Aberdeen,
“Scottish Entrepreneurs, American Colonists, and British State Formation.”
Tuesday, November 6, 12:30
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 527
Robin Blackburn, The New School
Tuesday, November13, 3:30-5:00
King Juan Carlos Center, First Floor, Portrait Room, >Co-sponsored with the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center.
FALL 2000 MEETINGS
Joel Budd, NYU, History (ABD), “What did the English really learn from the Indians? Colonial ethnography in transatlantic context”
Wednesday, November8, 12 Noon
King Juan Carlos Center (KJC), Room 607
(Co-sponsored by the Programs in the Atlantic World and the African Diaspora)
Mark Thurner (U. of Florida, Gainesville), “After Spanish Rule: Rethinking the Postcolonial from the Americas”
Thursday, November16, 6:30 PM
Spanish Department, Room 615, 726 Broadway
(Co-sponsored with the Spanish Department)
Celia Wu (Visiting Scholar, John Carter Brown)
“Bolivar and San Martin: The Contemporary British Views”
Thursday Nov. 30, 4:00 pm
KJC, Room 404 W
David Brading (Visiting Scholar, John Carter Brown; Cambridge Univ.)
“Transformations of Tradition: Our Lady of Guadalupe”
Friday, Dec. 1,12:00
KJC, Room 607
SPRING 2000 MEETINGS
Tuesday, March 7, 12:00-1:30 p.m., Room 404W, King Juan Carlos Center
Kirsten Schultz, “Tragedy and Triumph: The Politics of Royal Exile”
Wednesday, March 22, 4:00-5:30 p.m., Room 607,KJC
Henry Abelove, English Dept., Wesleyan University
Tuesday, March28, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., Room 607, KJC
History Department panel: “The Atlantic World”, with
David Armitage, History, Columbia University
Antonio Feros, History, NYU
Ada Ferrer, History, NYU
Michael Gomez, History, NYU
Monday, May 1, 12:00-1:30 p.m., Room 404 W, KJCC
Alejandra Osorio, SUNY-Stony Brook, “A Tale of Two Cities: Lima’s Rivalry with Cuzco to Represent Peru”
FALL 1999 MEETINGS
Chris Schmidt-Nowara, Fordham University
Date/Time: Tues.October 19
Title: “The Specter of Las Casas: Writing Colonial History in Nineteenth-Century Cuba and Spain”
Copies of his paper are available to read in the Warren Dean Reading Room (KJCC, 7thFloor)
Chris is the author of Empire and Slavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874, a study of the debates over slavery and abolition in the Spanish-speaking world that is hot off the press.
Markku Peltonen, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Title: “Republicanism and Citizenship in Elizabethan England”
Date: Monday, November 22nd.
December 1:
Antonio Manuel Hespanha, Universida de Nova de Lisboa, Yale University
“Commemoration, History and Inter-Cultural Dialogue: Recollections and
Reflections on the Portuguese Celebrations of Gama’s Voyage (1498-1998)”