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August 2004 Seminar Program
Indigenous Cultures, 1500-1825
The sessions of the August 2004 Atlantic History Seminar are listed below. Each presenter's name is linked to an abstract of the paper presented; A full list of Working Paper titles from the Seminars, arranged alphabetically by author is also available.[Please note that participants' affiliations are given as of the time of the Seminar and may have changed since then.]
Tuesday, August 3
SESSION 1
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar RoomNatives on the Margins: The Northeast
Chair: Colin Calloway, Dartmouth College
Andrew Miller, Johns Hopkins University
“Abenaki-European Relations before 1725: Adaptation, Persistence, or Evolution?”Daniel R. Mandell, Truman State University
“Indians in Eighteenth-Century Anglo-America: Indigenous Peoples and Racial Proletariat”SESSION 2
2:00 P.M., Robinson Hall Seminar RoomPersistence, Slavery, and Gifts in the Southeast
Chair: Colin Calloway, Dartmouth CollegeDenise Ileana Bossy, Yale University
“‘A White Eagle Wing and a Yamasee Boy’: Indian Slavery in South Carolina after the Yamasee War, 1721-1732”Jessica Ross Stern, Johns Hopkins University
“Gifts in Southeastern American Indian and Anglo-American Exchange”
Wednesday, August 4
SESSION 3
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar RoomMyths, Symbols, and Cultural Encounters: Rattlesnakes and Amazons
Chair: Peter Wood, Duke University
Philip Levy, University of South Florida
“Rattlesnakes and the Competition between Indian and European Fellow Travelers”Astrid Steverlynck, Oxford University
“The Women of Matininó: Amazons, Exchange, and the Origins of Society”SESSION 4
2:00 P.M., Robinson Hall Seminar RoomPlenary Session
Peter Wood, Duke University
“Atlantic History on Canvas: A Fresh Look at Winslow Homer's The Gulf Stream”Thursday, August 5
SESSION 5
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar RoomMexico: Survival and Persistence
Chair: R. Douglas Cope, Brown University
Andrew B. Fisher, Carleton College
“Primordial Identities Imagined and Contested: Peasant Communities and Memory in the Eighteenth-Century Hot Country of Guerrero, Mexico”Edward Osowski, St. Michael's College
“Underneath Triumphal Arches: Eighteenth-Century Indigenous Survival in New Spain's Urban Core”Friday, August 6
SESSION 6
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar RoomResistance, Negotiation, and Continuity in Mesoamerica
Chair: R. Douglas Cope, Brown University
Leonardo Hernandez, SUNY—OswegoSESSION 7
“The Periphery of the Periphery: Pre-Atlantic and Atlantic History as Seen from Southeastern Mesoamerica”Irene Vasquez, University of California at Los Angeles
“From Indigenous to Native Others: The Changing Constructs of Hijos de la Frontera in Eighteenth-Century Northern Mexico”
2:00 p.m., Robinson Hall Seminar RoomThe Church as Cultural Negotiator: Jesuits and the Inquisition
Chair: Susan Kellogg, University of Houston
José Gabriel Martínez-Serna, Southern Methodist UniversitySaturday, August 7
“Instruments of Empire: Jesuit-Indian Encounters in the New World Borderlands”Patricia Lopes Don, San José State University
“Death of an Aztec: The Inquisition of the Native Leader Don Carlos of Texcoco in Early Mexico, 1539”
SESSION 8
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar RoomCourts and Law: Uses and Re-Uses
Chair: Susan Kellogg, University of Houston
R. Jovita Baber, University of Chicago
“Vexatious Outsiders: The Shaping of Colonial Spaces in Tlaxcala, New Spain, 1550-1590”Carmen Alveal, Johns Hopkins University
“Land, Politics, and Society in Colonial Brazil: A Native Perspective”Monday, August 9
SESSION 9
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar RoomAppearance and Disappearance in Trinidad and the Danish Caribbean Chair: David Barry Gaspar, Duke University
Gunvor Simonsen, European University InstituteSESSION 10
“African and African-Caribbean Voices in the Lower Courts of the Danish West Indies”Maximilian C. Forte, University College of Cape Breton
“Writing the Caribs Out: The Construction and Demystification of the ‘Deserted Island’ Thesis for Trinidad”
2:00 p.m., Robinson Hall Seminar RoomThe Portuguese in Nigeria and Brazil: Languages and Cultures
Chair: Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia
David Aworawo, University of Lagos
“Cultural Atavism and Adaptation: The Varying Responses to Western Culture in Benin and Warri, 1520”Kittiya Lee, Johns Hopkins University
“Among the Vulgar, the Erudite, and the Sacred: The Oral Life of Colonial Amazonia”Tuesday, August 10
SESSION 11
9:30 a.m., Library, Harvard Faculty ClubAccommodation and Continuity in the Illinois Country and the Eastern Great Lakes: Prehistory, Cross-Cultural Alliances, and Marriage Chair: Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah
Alan G. Shackelford, Hendrix College
“Navigating the Opportunities of New Worlds: The Land of the Illinois in Prehistory, Protohistory, and History”Heidi Bohaker, University of Toronto
“Contesting the Middle Ground: The Dynamic Tradition of Indigenous Kinship Networks and Cross-Cultural Alliances in North America's Eastern Great Lakes Region, 1600-1700”Sophie White, University of Notre Dame
“‘Dressed in the French Manner’: Illiniwek Wives of Frenchmen in the Illinois Country during the French Regime”
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