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With the author's permission, links to papers will be
posted roughly one week before the date of the workshop and removed afterward.
Clicking the paper's title will begin download of a *.pdf file. You
will need a password and Adobe Acrobat to read the file. Please contact the workshop coordinator if
you need the password.
**Please note that beginning in Fall 2011,
the workshop’s regular meeting time and place is now
11:00-12:30 in King Juan Carlos Center, Room 607 (53 Washington Square South)
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
How Confessional Divisions influenced Writing on the Natural History of the Atlantic World
28
February
Karoline Cook, University of Illinois
Moriscos in the Atlantic World
6
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
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
Writing that Conquers and Heteroglossia in the search for the Northwest passage (1576-1610)
24
April
Aaron Slater, NYU
TBA
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).
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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?
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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"
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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)"
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