Period I: 9:00-10:30, Wednesday, Aug. 10

Plenary I: Overviews

Aaron Fogleman, Northern Illinois University
"The Atlantic World: Definition, Theory, Boundaries" [paper]

Douglas B. Chambers, University of Southern Mississippi
"Writing the Black Atlantic: Theory, Method, Practice" [paper]

Eric Slauter, University of Chicago
"Literature and the Atlantic World"

Period II: 10:45-12:15, Wednesday, Aug. 10

Session 1: Indigenous Peoples, Empire, and Law

R. Jovita Baber, Texas A&M University
"The Changing Geography of the Political Community: The Negotiation of Land, Livestock, Law, and Citizenship in Tlaxcala, New Spain, 1540-1580" [paper]

Jeremy Mumford, Brandeis University
"Native Litigants in the Courts of the Conquerors: Indigenous Lawsuits of Spanish America in Comparative Perspective" [paper]

Denise Ileana Bossy, Trinity College, Hartford
" 'The Chain of Friendship': Indians and Empire in Colonial South Carolina"

Session 2: Influences of the Dutch Republic

Victor Enthoven, Royal Netherlands Naval College
"The Dutch Revolt and the Atlantic World" [paper]

Douglas Bradburn, SUNY, Binghamton
"Free Seas, Free States, Free Citizens: Atlantic Continuities in the Dutch Revolt and the American Revolution" [paper]

Session 3: The Urban Atlantic

Sheryllynne Haggerty, University of Liverpool
" 'Miss Fan can tun her han!' Women, Work, and Income Opportunities in American-Atlantic Port Cities" [paper]

Emma Hart, University of St. Andrews
" 'Odious characters': Urban Middling Sorts in the British Atlantic World" [paper]

Mariana L. R. Dantas, Ohio University
"Runaway Slaves and the Shaping of Black Urban Life in the Eighteenth-Century American South" [paper]

Period 3: 2:00-3:30, Wednesday, Aug. 10

Session 4: England and America: Conceptual Engagements

David Armitage, Harvard University
"The Contagion of Sovereignty: Declarations of Independence in the Atlantic World and Beyond" [paper]

Daniel Hulsebosch, New York University
"Writs to Rights: The ‘Common Law’ in the Age of Revolution" [paper]

Session 5: Caribbean Overviews: Production and Survival

Hakiem Nankoe, Cornell University
"Structures of Production in the Caribbean from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries"

Maximilian C. Forte, Concordia University, Montréal
"Extinction: The Historical Trope of Anti-Indigeneity in the Caribbean" [paper]

Period 4: 4:00-5:30, Wednesday, Aug. 10

Session 6: The Enlightenment: Atlantic Dimensions

Sandra Rebok, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid
"Jefferson and Von Humboldt: Two Exponents of the Enlightenment" [paper]

Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University
"An Enslaved Enlightenment: Re-Thinking the Intellectual History of the French Atlantic" [paper]

Beatriz Domingues, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
"The Amazon and the Uraguay in the Dispute of the New World" [paper]

Session 7: Commerce and Colonization: Risks, Failures, and Successes

Silvia Marzagalli, Université de Bordeaux
"Adapting to a Changing Atlantic World? The Case of the Gradis Merchant Family of Bordeaux"

Nuran Çinlar, Simmons College
"Judging Risk: The Virginia Company of London and the Decision to Invest in New World Colonization"

Claudia Schnurmann, Universität Hamburg
"Reconstructing a Seventeenth-Century Commercial Network: The Atlantic Activities of Cornelis Jacobs Moy, Andrew Russell, and Jacob Leisler"

Period 5: 9:00-10:30, Thursday, Aug. 11

Session 8: The Transfer of Ideas: Newton, Malebranche, and Adam Smith

Scott Breuninger, University of South Dakota
"'Social Gravity’ and the Translatio Tradition in Early American Theories of Empire" [paper]

Stephen A. Wilson, Hood College
"Anglo-French Platonism and Religious Valuations of Civic Life in Colonial New England, 1670-1770" [paper]

Stewart Davenport, Pepperdine University
" 'Das Adam Smith-Problem' in the Antebellum North and Two Protestant Attempts at a Solution [paper]

Session 9: The French Atlantic: Scholarly Reticence and Revolutionary Memory

Cécile Vidal, Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble 2
"The Reluctance of French Historians to Address Atlantic History" [paper]

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, California State University, San Marcos
"Atlantic Amnesia: Memory and the Haitian Revolution in the United States and France" [paper]

Session 10: "Whiteness": Definition and Retention

Linda L. Sturtz, Beloit College
" 'White' African Jamaican? A Tale of Two Roses" [paper]

Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Texas A&M University
" 'The young female destined to live and die in the colonies': Elite White Efforts to Control Martinique’s White Women, 1802-1830" [paper]

Period 6: 10:45-12:15, Thursday, Aug. 11

Plenary II: Teaching Atlantic History

Panel: John Navin, Coastal Carolina University, and Roundtable Discussion

Period 7: 2:00-3:30, Thursday, Aug. 11

Session 11: New Views of the Black Atlantic

Roquinaldo Ferreira, Universidad Federal de Fluminense
"Creolization and Cultural Hybridism in the Atlantic World: Merchants and Trading Networks in Angola and Brazil, 1650-1850" [paper]

John Coombs, Florida International University
"Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake-West Indian Commerce and the Coastwise Trade in Slaves" [paper]

Ty Reese, University of North Dakota
"Cape Coast Consumers: The Consequences of Consumption at Cape Coast, 1750-1807" [paper]

Session 12: Views of Native Americans

Ulrike Kirchberger, Universität Bayreuth
"The British Clergy's Perceptions of American Indians in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" [paper]

Katherine Hermes, Central Connecticut State University
"Captain Cook and Cultural Relativism: The American Indian in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds" [paper]

Session 13: Atlantic Migration: Networks and Communities

Rosalind Beiler, University of Central Florida
"Communications Networks and the Dynamics of Migration, 1660-1730" [paper]

Peter Vogt, Moravian Congregation at Niesky
"The Eighteenth-Century Moravian Movement as a Transatlantic Religious Community" [paper]

Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Université de Paris 8
"Refugees or Émigrés? The Huguenot, Royalist, and Saint-Domingue Migrations to America" [paper]

Period 8: 4:00-5:30, Thursday, Aug. 11

Session 14: French Counter-Revolutions

R. Darrell Meadows, Library of Congress
"Refugee Planters and Revolutionary Legislators: Welfare, Exile, and the Haitian Counter-Revolution, 1794-1802" [paper]

Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona
"Slaves, Freed People, and the Revolutionary Rights Tradition, 1789-c.1799" [paper]

Session 15: Constitutional Ideas, North and South

Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe, Evanston, Illinois
"Concepts and Constitutions: Federalism Crosses the Atlantic" [paper]

Marcela Ternavasio, Universidad Nacional de Rosario and CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)
"The Division of Powers and Divided Sovereignty: The U.S. Experience in the River Plate Periodical Press during Independence, 1810-1820"

Denise Spellberg, University of Texas, Austin
"Could a Muslim Be President of the United States? The Atlantic View of Islam" [paper]

Session 16: Nature as Actor: Eruptions and Earthquakes

Margarita Gascón, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones, Argentina
"Environment, Natural Catastrophe, and Imperial Expansion into the Southernmost Borderlands: Seventeenth-Century Patagonia and Arauco"

S. Max Edelson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Aftershock: The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 and the Fate of Empire in the Atlantic World" [paper]

Period 9: 9:00-10:30, Friday, Aug. 12

Session 17: Reconstructing West Indian Slave Voices

James Robertson, University of the West Indies, Mona
"Ventriloquilizing Jamaica’s Slaves and the Early Politics of Antislavery"

Gunvor Simonsen, European University Institute, Florence
"Conjugality, Conjugal Conflicts, and Afro-Caribbean Patriarchy: Exploring Violence and Adultery in the Danish West Indian Courts" [paper]

Session 18: Responses to Revolution in the Early Republic

Daniel Kilbride, John Carroll University
"Race, National Characters, and American Responses to European Revolutions, 1789-1848" [paper]

Monica Henry, Université François-Rabelais, Tours
"Joel Roberts Poinsett, a North American Diplomat in Spanish America, 1811-1829" [paper]

Session 19: New World Forests, Pirates, and Maritime Strength

Nuala Zahedieh, University of Edinburgh
"New World Resources and the Expansion of England’s Merchant Marine, 1660-1775" [paper]

Guy Chet, University of North Texas
"Frontier Violence in the North Atlantic: The Campaign Against Piracy and the Quest for Governmental Legitimacy in the Modern State" [paper]

Period 10: 10:45-12:15, Friday, Aug. 12

Session 20: Missions, Seminaries, and Convents: Indigenous Catholicism

Matt O’Hara, New Mexico State University
"An Eighteenth-Century 'Great Debate': Indians and Religious Vocations" [paper]

Gabriel Martinez, Southern Methodist University
"Jesuit Frontiers: Indian Resistance and Assimilation in Seventeenth-Century Spanish America" [paper]

Marie Duggan, Keene State College
"The Rise and Fall of the Religious Economy in Latin American California, 1769-1840" [paper]

Period 11: 2:00-3:30, Friday, Aug. 12

Session 21: Creating State, Nation, and Identities

Erika Pani, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
"When Independence Wars Are Civil Wars: Reconstructing the Body Politic" [paper]

Jordana Dym, Skidmore College
"Conceiving Central America: Public, Patria, and Nation in the Gazeta de Guatemala, 1797-1807" [paper]

Session 22: Interrogating the Sources: Art, Estate Records, and Fiction

Rosalie Smith McCrea, University of Ottawa
"The Caribbean in the Metropolitan Imagination, or Atlantic Republicanism and Creole Beckford"

John F. Campbell, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
"Writing it Right: Establishing ‘Expert' Historical Testimony Through the Use of Forensic Semantics in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Sources"

Matthew Mason, Brigham Young University
"Slavery, Servitude, and British Representations of Colonial North America" [paper]

Session 23: Honduras, Curaçao, and Cartagena: Trans-Imperial Pivots

Linda M. Rupert, Duke University
"Trans-Imperial Exchanges between Curaçao and Tierra Firme"

Jennifer Anderson, New York University
"Better Judges of the Situation: Environmental Realities and the Problems of Imperial Authority in the Bay of Honduras" [paper]

Nikolaus Böttcher, Freie Universität Berlin
"Slave Traders, Contraband, and the Inquisition in the Caribbean, 1610-1650" [paper]

Period 12: 4:00-5:30, Friday, Aug. 12

Session 24: Language, Writing, and Intermediaries in Portuguese America

Cândida Barros, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
" 'Papera': The Use of Written Portuguese as Part of the Policy for the 'lingua geral' in Colonial Amazonia" [paper]

M. Kittiya Lee, Tulane University
"Speaking by the Sea: Interlingual Contact and Trade in Brazil, 1500-1550s" [paper]

Session 25: Seafarers: Black Labor and White Fears

Emma Christopher, Monash University
"Black Maritime Workers in Britain and the Fight for Freedom" [paper]

Philip Levy, University of South Florida
"Man-Eating, Class, and Menace on Richard Hore’s 1536 Voyage to America"

Session 26: Dutch Networks

Wim Klooster, Clark University
"Between Virginia’s Eastern Shore and the Maas Estuary: Natives and Strangers in the Atlantic Tobacco Business, 1620-1650" [paper]

James Williams, Middle Tennessee State University
"Dutch Communication Networks in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World"

Period 13: 9:00-10:30, Saturday, Aug. 13

Session 27: Challenging the Imperial State: Wild Radicals and Polite Burgesses

Louis H. Roper, SUNY-New Paltz
"Parliaments and American Politics: Charles I and Virginia, 1638" [paper]

John Donoghue, University of Pittsburgh
"The Western Design and Radical Republicanism" [paper]

James G. Patterson, Centenary College
"Politicization and Agrarianism in the West of Ireland, 1791-1803" [paper]

Session 28: Slave Resistance and Rebellion

Gloria Chuku, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
"’Igbo Landing’ Facts and Fiction: A Preliminary Study of Igbo Slave Resistance in South Carolina"

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Bryn Mawr College
"Early Modern Panamá’s Rebellious Slaves in Atlantic Context" [paper]

Session 29: History and Biography: Individual Lives in Atlantic Context

Neil Kennedy, Brock University
"Between a Rock and a Metropole: Richard Norwood’s Atlantic Bermuda"

Mark Quintanilla, Hannibal-La Grange College
" 'From a dear and worthy land': An Irish Colonist in the West Indies"

Bradford Wood, Eastern Kentucky University
"Finding the Atlantic World: James Murray in North Carolina" [paper]

Period 14: 10:45-12:15, Saturday, Aug. 13

Session 30: The Impact of Spanish Empire: Cuba, Africa, Central Europe

Evelyn P. Jennings, Saint Lawrence University
"Slavery as an Instrument of Empire in Colonial Havana, 1763-1840" [paper]

David Aworawo, University of Lagos
"Two Islands: The Social and Political Development of Fernando Po and Cuba under Spanish Rule"

William O’Reilly, University of Cambridge
"Voyagers to the East: The Atlantic Reconquest of Europe" [paper]

Session 31: Río de la Plata and the Wider World: "The Atlantic was an agent of civilization"

Gustavo Paz, Universidad de Buenos Aires
"Reporting Atlantic News: Newspapers and the Rise of the Public in Late Colonial Argentina"

Beatriz Dávilo, Universidad Nacional de Rosario
"The Río de la Plata on the Atlantic Scene: The Importation of Social Habits, Cultural Patterns, and Political Values from the Anglo-Saxon World, 1810-1827"

Session 32: Constructions of Space

James Taylor Carson, Queen's University, Ontario
"When Is an Ocean Not an Ocean? Geographies of the Atlantic World" [paper]

Elvira Vilches, North Carolina State University
"Atlantic Crossings and Valuation in Early New World Historiography"
[paper]

12:15-1:00 p.m. Closing Plenary

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University