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The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800
September 28-30, 2001
Harvard University



Program

Friday, September 28


4:30 p.m.: Welcome

5:00 p.m.: Keynote Address

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
    "Britain's Atlantic: Beyond Empire"
6:30 p.m. Reception

Saturday, September 29


9:30 a.m.: Frameworks
Chair: Sugata Bose, Harvard University
David Armitage, Columbia University
    "Three Concepts of Atlantic History"

Michael J. Braddick, University of Sheffield
    "State Formation"

Elizabeth Mancke, University of Akron
    "Empire and State"

11:30 a.m.:-1:30 p.m.: Lunch

1:30 p.m.: Connections
Chair: Claudia Goldin, Harvard University

Alison Games, Georgetown University
    "Migration"

Nuala Zahedieh, University of Edinburgh
    "The British Atlantic Economy"

Carla Gardina Pestana, Ohio State University
    "Religion"
3:30 p.m.: Identities
Chair: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
    "Race"

Keith Wrightson, Yale University
    "Class"

Sarah M. S. Pearsall, University of Cambridge
    "Gender"

5:30 p.m.: Reception

Sunday, September 30


9:30 a.m.: Politics
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire
    "Revolution and Counter-Revolution"

Christopher Brown, Rutgers University
    "The Politics of Slavery in the British Atlantic, c.1600-1833"

11:00 a.m.: Closing Remarks

J. H. Elliott, University of Oxford


© 2001 by The President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Created March 23, 2001.