ATLANTIC HISTORY:
Regional Networks, Shared Experiences, Forces of Integration

Program

thursday, june 21

3:00-4:00 p.m.
Registration

4:00-4:30 p.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Project and Purpose
Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

4:30-5:30 p.m.
Session I: Frameworks

Aaron Fogleman, Northern Illinois University
The Atlantic World, 1492-1860s: Definition, Theory, and Boundaries

6:00-7:30 p.m.
Reception, Faculty Club

friday, june 22

9:00-10:30 a.m.
Session II: Commercial Bindings
Chair: Stephen D. Behrendt, University of Victoria at Wellington, New Zealand

David Hancock, University of Michigan
The Triumph of Mercury: Connection and Control in the Emerging Atlantic Economy

Wim Klooster, Clark University
The History of Inter-Imperial Smuggling in the Americas, 1600-1800

10:30- 11:00-a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Session III: Africa: Latent Structures
Chair: J. Gabriel Martínez-Serna, Southern Methodist University

Stephen D. Behrendt, University of Victoria at Wellington, New Zealand
Seasonality, the Slave Trade, and Atlantic History

Linda Heywood and John Thornton, Boston University
Managing the State: African Political Leadership and European Trade in Kongo and Dahomey

12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00-4:00 p.m.
Session IV: The Providential Atlantic
Chair: Mark A. Peterson, University of California, Berkeley

J. Gabriel Martínez-Serna, Southern Methodist University
Jesuit Networks in the Atlantic World

Rosalind Beiler, University of Central Florida
Dissenting Religious Communication Networks and European Migration, 1660-1730

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas, Austin
Typology in the Atlantic: What Is ‘Atlantic’ about the Early Modern Biblical Readings of Colonization?

4:00-4:30 p.m.
Coffee Break

4:30-5:30 p.m.
Session V: Interior Spaces of the Atlantic World
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Emma Rothschild, Harvard University/University of Cambridge
David Hume and the Sea Gods of the Atlantic

saturday, june 23

9:00-10:30 a.m.
Session VI: Contact and Exchange: The Circulation of Knowledge in the Atlantic World
Chair: Emma Rothschild, Harvard University/University of Cambridge

Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University
Scientific Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Neil Safier, University of British Columbia
Enlightenment between Empires: Hipólito da Costa and the Atlantic World

10:30- 11:00-a.m.
Coffee Break

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Session VII: Worldly Regionalism, North and South
Chair: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas, Austin

Mark A. Peterson, University of California, Berkeley
Theopolis Americanae: The City-State of Boston, the Republic of Letters, and the Protestant International, 1689-1739

Beatriz Dávilo, National University of Rosario, Argentina
The Making of a Republic: The Rio de la Plata and Its Intercourse with the Anglo-Saxon Atlantic World

12:30-2:00 p.m.
Lunch

2:00-2:45 p.m.
Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Variations on Some Themes of the Conference Papers

3:00-4:00 p.m.
Roundtable and Discussion

Note: All sessions will be held in the Tsai Auditorium (S010) at CGIS South.