TRANSFORMATIONS: The Atlantic World in the Late Seventeenth Century

Program

THURSDAY, MARCH 30
3:00-4:00 p.m. Registration
The registration table will be open throughout the conference so attendees may pick up name tags and folders at any time while the conference is in session.

4:00-4:30 p.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

4:30-6:00 p.m.
Roundtable: The Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Karen Kupperman, New York University
Joseph Miller, University of Virginia
Mark Peterson, University of Iowa

6:30-8:00 p.m. Reception, Library, Harvard Faculty Club

FRIDAY, MARCH 31
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Session I: Slavery: Supply and Demand in America and Africa
Chair: Joseph Miller, University of Virginia

Alan Gallay, Ohio State University, "Beachheads into Empires, Villages into Confederacies: Atlantic World Trade and the Transformation of the American South"

Lorena Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, "Tranformations in Migration Patterns and Labor Recruitment"

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

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Session II: The Loss of Control: Defeat and Defiance
Chair: Mark Peterson, University of Iowa

Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania, "Dutch Dominos: The Defeats of the West India Company and the Reshaping of Eastern North America"

Kenneth Banks, University of North Carolina, Asheville, "Creating Illicit Commerce in the Late Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World"

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

2:30-4:00 p.m.
Session III: Studying Nature: Bodies and Science
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania, "Empire’s New Clothes: Textiles, Laundresses, and Bodies in the Fin-de-Siècle Atlantic

Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University, "The Authority of Nature in the Late Seventeenth Century"

4:00-4:30 Coffee Break

4:30-6:00 p.m.
Session IV: Accounting for the Women, in Africa and in Slavery
Chair: Karen Kupperman, New York University

Jennifer Morgan, Rutgers University, "Accounting for the Women in Slavery: Demography and Epistemology of Race and Slavery in Early America"

Linda Heywood and John Thornton, Boston University, "Central African Creole Culture and the Making of the 'Plantation Generation,' 1660-1740"

SATURDAY, APRIL 1
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Session V: Iberian America: Change, Challenge, and Continuity
Chair: Joseph Miller, University of Virginia

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin, "Transformations in Spanish America: Narrating the Riots of 1624 and 1692 in Mexico City"

Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University, "Alternative Visions and Failed Transformations: Late Seventeenth-Century Rebellions in the Americas"

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

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Session VI: The Web of Empire: Politics and Trade
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

David Hancock, University of Michigan, "Phase Transition: How the Atlantic Became a Place, 1674-1714"

Steven Pincus, Yale University, "An Interlude between Barbarism and Stability? The Revolution in British Political Economy and the Atlantic World"

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

2:00-3:30 p.m. Closing Roundtable: Transformations?

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Karen Kupperman, New York University
Joseph Miller, University of Virginia
Mark Peterson, University of Iowa