Thursday, October 8, 2015

4:00 p.m.—4:30 p.m. Registration

4:30 p.m.—4:45 p.m. Welcome and Introductory Comments

4:45 p.m.—6:30 p.m.

Panel 1: Setting the Stage of American Politics

Chair: Andrew Inchiosa, University of Chicago 

Katlyn Carter, Princeton University
"The Politics of Secrecy in the Early Republic: The Jay Treaty and Calls for Transparent Government"

Sandra Perot, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Anglophone Theatre and Cultural Diplomacy in Eighteenth-Century America"

Benjamin C. Lyons, Columbia University
"Political Theory in the Pre-Revolutionary Colleges of North America"

Derek O'Leary, University of California, Berkeley
"Early US Consuls Amid a Turbulent World"

6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m. Opening Reception

Friday, October 9, 2015

8:15 a.m.—9:00 a.m. Coffee & Light Breakfast

9:00 a.m.—10:30 a.m.

Panel 2: Negotiating Cross-Cultural Exchange:
Information, Commodities, and Power in Native History

Chair: Elizabeth Ellis, McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Garrett W. Wright, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Informing Empires:  Exchange and Movement in the Eighteenth-Century Central Plains"

Augustin Habran, Paris Diderot University
"New Geopolitics of the West: The Five Civilized Tribes as Agents in the Creation of an 'Indian State' in the West, 1835-1850"

Alexandra L. Montgomery, University of Pennsylvania
"Cod, Captives, and Conviviality: British, French and Native Interactions in the Northeastern Borderlands in War and Peace, 1675-1763"

10:30 a.m.—10:45 a.m. Break 

10:45 a.m.—12:15 p.m.

Panel 3: The Not-So-Sleepy South

Chair: Rachel Engl, Lehigh University 

Franklin Sammons, University of California, Berkeley
"The Imperial Imagination of Alexander Moultrie: Land Speculation, Slavery, and Finance in the Post-Revolutionary United States"

Aaron Hall, University of California, Berkeley
"Internal Improvements, Slavery and Constitutional Authority: How a Slave State Improved Itself and America Claimed the Founding, 1812-1850"

Glen Olson, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
"Imagining Slavery's Leviathan: Slaveholder Demands and Abolitionist Fears of Federal Institutions in Florida, 1837-1841"

12:15 p.m.—1:15 p.m. Lunch (on own)

1:15 p.m.—2:45 p.m.

Panel 4: Contesting Health and Authority

Chair: Christopher Jones, College of William and Mary

Kristen D. Burton, University of Texas, Arlington
"'Resolved to Drink in Spite of Me': Alcohol, Slavery, and Resistance in Eighteenth-Century British America"

Jennifer Burd, Temple University
"'A Paradox in Nature': Slave Rebellion and the Boston Inoculation Controversy"

Hannah Anderson, University of Pennsylvania
"Not a Weed, But a Medicine: Competing Visions of Weeds, Health, and Landscape in Early Philadelphia"

2:45 p.m.—3:00 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m.

McNeil Center for Early American Studies Friday Seminar (Please Note the Location: Cohen Hall 402, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) )

Kellie Carter Jackson, Hunter College, CUNY

"Forcing Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence"

Professor Jackson's paper will be precirculated and should be read by all who attend. For access, contact mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu.

5:00 p.m.—6:00 p.m. Reception

Saturday, October 10, 2015

8:15 a.m.—9:00 a.m. Coffee & Light Breakfast

9:00 a.m.—10:30 a.m.

Panel 5: Distance, Intimacy, and the Market

Chair: Lauren Kimball, Rutgers University

Zachary Dorner, Brown University
"'Punctuality of Payment is the Life of Business': Rethinking the Role of Markets and Personal Connections in Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Trade"

Jonathan Quint, University of Windsor
"'Commercial Loyalty' and Transnational Trade in the Detroit River Region, 1780-1820"

Joseph P. Slaughter, University of Maryland
"To Indiana and Back Again: A Utopian Society's Uneasy Relationship with the Early American Market Economy"

10:30 a.m.—10:45 a.m. Break 

10:45 a.m.—12:15 p.m.

Panel 6: Race, Rhetoric, and the Politics of Movement

Chair: Alex Manevitz, New York University 

Samuel Davis, Temple University
"Embodied Freedom: Colonization, Imperialism, and Atlantic Black Citizenship"

Evgenia Shnayder Shoop, University of Pennsylvania
"Mobile Republic: Passports and the Regulation of Movement in American State Formation and Citizenship"

John Garrison Marks, Rice University
"'Dangerous designs and machinations': Free People of Color and the Haitian Revolution in Cartagena and Charleston"

12:15 p.m.—1:45 p.m. Lunch (on own)

1:45 p.m.—3:15 p.m.

Panel 7: Hope, Pathos, and Anxiety in Atlantic Print

Chair: Nicholas Gliserman, University of Southern California 

Jay David Miller, University of Notre Dame
"God's Protecting Providence in Print: Jonathan Dickinson's Captivity Narrative in the Quaker Atlantic World"

Michael Hoppin Read, University of Rochester
"Gatherings of Flesh and Blood: The Circulation of Captives and Captivity Literature during the Long Eighteenth Century"

David Thomas, Temple University
"A 'monster of a man' Plagues the Nation: Print, Trauma and Atlantic Anxiety in Revolutionary America"

3:15 p.m.—3:30 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m.—5:00 p.m.

Keynote Address

François Furstenberg, Johns Hopkins University

5:00 p.m.—6:00 p.m. Reception

The conference will be held 8-10 October 2015 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place at the McNeil Center, 3355 Woodland Walk. All inquiries should be directed to mceas2015conference@gmail.com.