Conference Program

THURSDAY, 4 APRIL 2013                                 

3:00–4:45 p.m. Registration
            McNeil Center Foyer, 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets)

3:30–4:30 p.m. Refreshments and Exhibition Tour of “Creating: Quilts of the Lakota”
            Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th Street

4:45–5:00 p.m. Welcomes
            Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center, 3355 Woodland Walk

Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Margaret M. Bruchac, University of Pennsylvania

5:00–6:30 p.m. Representations
Chair: Margaret M. Bruchac, University of Pennsylvania
Eric Hemenway, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians
Keith Widder, Mackinac State Historic Parks, retired
Craig Wilson, Mackinac State Historic Parks
“Presenting Pontiac at Michilimackinac: Interpreting the Anglo-Indian War of 1763”
Comment: Peter Jemison, Ganondagan State Historic Site

There will be no pre-circulated paper for this session.

6:30–7:30 p.m. Reception, McNeil Center Foyer              

FRIDAY, 5 APRIL 2013

            All Friday events will take place at the McNeil Center, 3355 Woodland Walk

8:30–9:00 a.m. Registration and Coffee                                                     

9:00–10:30 a.m. Upper Countries                                                   
Chair: Christopher Parsons, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Christian Crouch, Bard College
“The Black City: Detroit and the Northeast Borderlands through African Eyes in the Era of ‘Pontiac’s War’”
Michael McDonnell, University of Sydney
“Maintaining a Balance of Power: Michilimackinac, the Anishinaabe, and the Anglo-Indian War”
Keith Widder, Mackinac State Historic Parks, retired
“‘To Reinstate there Brothers’: Michilimackinac and the Anglo-Indian War of 1763”
Comment: Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah

10:30–10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Circulations
Chair: Laura Keenan Spero, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Georgia Carley, Queens University
“Cost, Commodity, and Gift: The Board of Trade’s Conceptualization of British-Native American Gift-Giving during Pontiac’s War”
Michael Goode, University of Illinois, Chicago
“Dangerous Spirits: Alcohol, Native Revivalism, and Quaker Reform”
Jeffrey Kaja, California State University, Northridge
“The Conflict over Spatial Mobility During ‘The War Called Pontiac’s’”
Comment: Timothy Shannon, Gettysburg College

12:15–1:30 p.m. Lunch (on own)    

1:30–2:15 p.m. Archaeology
Chair: Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Michael  S. Nassaney, Western Michigan University
“Prelude at Fort St. Joseph”
Comment: The Audience

There will be no pre-circulated paper for this session.

2:15–3:30 p.m. Stories                                                          
Chair: Jane T. Merritt, Old Dominion University
Karen Marrero, Independent Scholar
“‘Carry’d on by Their Women’:  Catherine, Angelique, and the Forgotten Story of Pontiac’s War”
Andrew Newman, Stony Brook University
“‘A Singular Gift from a Savage’: The Presentation of Books in Ohio Country Captivity Narratives”
Comment: Lisa Brooks, Amherst College

3:30–4:00 p.m. Refreshments

4:00–5:15 p.m. Fears                                                
Chair: Patrick Spero, Williams College
Elizabeth Hornor, MidAmerica Nazarine University
“Intimate Enemies: Captivity and Colonial Fear of Indians in Pontiac’s War”
Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology
“‘Dupes and Slaves to Indians’: Bondage, Servility and Empire in Pontiac’s World”
Comment: James H. Merrell, Vassar College

5:15–5:30 p.m. Break

5:30–6:30 p.m. Closing Roundtable                                               
Chair: Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, Yale University
Panelists: Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College
Gregory Evans Dowd, University of Michigan
Laura Keenan Spero, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture
Comment: The Audience

6:30–8:00 p.m. Buffet Supper

 

The conference is free and open to the public, but preregistration is required for on-line access to the pre-circulated papers.

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