Conference Program

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

University of Pennsylvania Law School Golkin 100, Michael A. Fitts Auditorium 3501 Sansom Street (NOTE CHANGE)

 

4:00PM-5:00PM

Opening Roundtable

Moderator:
Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania

Discussants:
Edward Gray, University of Florida
Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University

 

5:30PM

Reception: The McNeil Center for Early American Studies
University of Pennsylvania, 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets)

 

Friday, May 31, 2013

The American Philosophical Society, Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut St.
- Space Permitting

 

9:30AM-11:00AM

Morning Session: Global Perspectives

Chair: Andrew O’Shaughnessy, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies

 

“Transatlantic Protestantism and the Challenge of the Revolution”
Kate Carté Engel, Southern Methodist University

 

“The United States in the Age of Revolutions: A Reconsideration”
Caitlin Fitz, Northwestern University

 

“The Changing Nature of Transatlantic Migration in the Age of Revolution”

Aaron Fogleman, Northern Illinois University

 

“British Union and American Revolution: Unions, Sovereignty, and the Multinational State.”

Ned Landsman, Stony Brook University

 

11:30AM-12:30PM
Chair: Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University
Commentary:
Linda Colley, Princeton University
Ed Countryman, Southern Methodist University
Christine Heyrman, University of Delaware

 

2:00-3:30PM

Afternoon Session: The American Revolution as a Civil War

Chair: Barbara Oberg, Princeton University

 

“Intimacies of Occupation: Fraternization, Compromise, and Betrayal in Revolutionary-era Newport”
Travis Glasson, Temple University

 

“The Other Three-Fifths: Neutrals in the American Revolution”
Michael McDonnell, University of Sydney

 

“Loyalism, Citizenship, American Identity: The Shoemaker Family”
Kimberly Nath, University of Delaware

 

“In but not of the Revolution: Neutrals and British-Occupied Philadelphia”
Aaron Sullivan, Temple University

 

4:00PM-5:00PM
Chair: Benjamin Irvin, University of Arizona
Commentary:
Li Jianming, Peking University
Marjoleine Kars, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University

 

5:30PM

Reception: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust St.
- Space Permitting

 

Saturday, June 1, 2013

The American Philosophical Society, Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut St.
- Space Permitting

 

9:30AM-11:00AM

Morning Session: Violence and the American Revolution
Chair: Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania

 

“‘This is the Skin of a Whit Man’: Visual Memory and the Materiality of Violence in the American Revolution”

 

Zara Anishanslin, CUNY-Staten Island,

“‘Executioners of their Friends and Brethren’: Naval Impressment as an Atlantic Civil War”

 

Denver Brunsman, George Washington University

“Environmental History and the Revolution: Gunpowder as a Test Case”

 

David Hsiung, Juniata College

 

11:30AM-12:30PM
Chair: Patrick Spero, Williams College
Commentary:
Margaretta Lovell, University of California, Berkeley
Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh
Peter Thompson, Oxford University

 

2:00PM-3:30PM

Afternoon Session: Power and the American Revolution
Chair: Woody Holton, University of South Carolina

 

“’Calculated to Awake their Boyish Emulation’: The Great Awakening, Academies, and the American Revolution”
Mark Boonshoft, Ohio State University

 

“Disorder, Slave Property, and Economic Development in the Revolutionary South”
Matthew Spooner, Columbia University

 

“Where Tyranny Begins: British Imperial Expansion and the Origins of the American Revolution, 1758-1766.”
Bryan Rosenblithe, Columbia University

 

4:00PM-5:00PM
Chair: Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania
Commentary:
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University
David Shields, University of South Carolina

Concluding Roundtable

 

5:00PM-6:00PM (note time change)
Moderator: Brendan McConville, Boston University

Discussants:
Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina
Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia
Thomas Slaughter, University of Rochester
Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis

 

6:00PM -8:00PM (note time change)

Reception: Museum of the American Revolution, 123 Chestnut St.
- Space Permitting

 

Organizing Committee

Co-Chair: Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania

C0-Chair: Patrick Spero, Williams College
Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina
Woody Holton, University of South Carolina
Benjamin Irvin, University of Arizona
Brendan McConville, Boston University
Andrew O’Shaughnessy, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello
Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University