Conference Program
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Friday, 19 April
4:30-6:00 p.m. A Conversation with John Murrin
Gary J. Kornblith, Oberlin College
Daniel Vickers, University of British Columbia
John M. Murrin, Princeton University
6:00–7:30 p.m. Reception
Saturday, 20 April
9:00–9:30 a.m. Registration and Coffee
9:30–10:30 a.m. The Religious Transformation: Anglicization and Colonial Religion
Presider: George W. Boudreau, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
Nancy L. Rhoden, University of Western Ontario
“Anglican”-ization and Anglicization: Anglicanism, Dissent and Toleration in Eighteenth-Century British Colonies”
Evan Haefeli, Columbia University
“Anglicization and Religion”
10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Expanding and Challenging the Concept
Presider: Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania
Simon Newman, University of Glasgow
“Systems of Bound Labor and the Anglicization Framework”
David J. Silverman, George Washington University
“Racial Walls: Race and the Emergence of American White Nationalism”
William Carter, The College of New Jersey
“The Anglicization of Mohawk Country, 1650–1800”
12:15–1:45 p.m. Lunch (on own)
1:45–3:15 p.m. Anglicization, War and Revolution
Presider: Gary J. Kornblith, Oberlin College
Beth Lewis-Pardoe, Northwestern University
“Anglicization’s Archetypes: British History in American Revolutionary Memory”
Geoffrey Plank, University of East Anglia
“‘A Medieval Response to a Wilderness Need’: The Staying Power of John Murrin’s Military History”
Jeremy Stern, Independent Scholar
“Anglicization’s End: The Slow Collapse of British Identity in Townshend Crisis Massachusetts”
3:30–4:30 p.m. Post-Colonial? Anglicization and the Young Republic
Presider: James Alexander Dun, Princeton University
Anthony M. Joseph, Houston Baptist University
“Anglicizing the American Taxpayer, 1763–1815”
Denver Brunsman, George Washington University
“De-Anglicization: The Early U.S. Navy as Case Study”
4:45–5:30 p.m. Review Essay
Presider: Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Bryn Mawr College
Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, Camden
“A Synthesis Useful and Compelling: Anglicization and the Intellectual Achievement of John M. Murrin”
5:30–7:00 p.m. Reception