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Friday, June 9, 2006

8:30–10:00 a.m.	Morning walking tour of Old Quebec, guided by David Mendel. The fee for this tour is $18.00 US/$20.00 CDN, prepaid, with no refunds.
9:00	Registration and book exhibits open in the foyer, Room 1106, of the École d’architecture (School of Architecture), Édifice du Vieux-Séminaire de Quebec, 1, côte de la Fabrique. All sessions of the conference will take place at the School of Architecture.
10:00–10:30	Coffee • Main Hall, École d’architecture
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
	•Session I • Mapping the Geographies and Histories of Colonial Resistance Room 1121, École d’architecture Chair: Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania The Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq Leah M. Rosenmeier, Brown University Aln8bai kdakina—Our World in the Abenaki Way: Abenaki Typology in Quebec Philippe Charland, McGill University Métissage and Cartographic Hybridity, or the Charting of Colonial Ambivalence Étienne Rivard, Université Laval Comment: Caroline Desbiens, Université Laval • Session II • Views from Jamaica: Slavery, Music, and Judaism Room 0236 Chair: Thomas W. Krise, University of Central Florida An “Essay Concerning Slavery”: A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Analysis from Jamaica C. James Robertson, University of the West Indies Declarations of Inter-Dependence: The Trans-Colonial Trajectory of Jewish Rights and Liberties in the Anglo-Atlantic Empire, 1740–1830 Holly Snyder, Brown University “None so Fine as the Garnet Ladies”: Jamaican Popular Music Linda L. Sturtz, Beloit College Comment: W. Thomas Krise • Session III • War and Empire in the Colonial Northeast Room 2117 Chair: John Murrin, Princeton University Extraordinary Events and Marvellous Things: Cape Breton, Providence, and Religious Divisions in New England, 1745–1747 Stephen Foster, Northern Illinois University The Sixty Years War: Border Wars in the Northeast, 1688–1748 Kevin Sweeney, Amherst College The Modernization of American War Finance: Funding the War for Independence and the War of 1812 Max M. Edling, Uppsala University Comment: John Murrin • Session IV • Puritan Practices in New England Room 1204 Chair: Marc Egnal, York University The “Glorious Translation” of Cotton Mather: Revisiting the Puritan Way of Death William Van Arragon, Calvin College Reconsidering Slavery: Cotton Mather and the Trials of Slave Ownership Kathryn S. Koo, Saint-Mary’s College of California Lydia Prout’s “Dreadfullest Thought”: Satan, Sinners, and the Perils of Parenthood in Provincial Boston Douglas L. Winiarski, University of Richmond Comment: Kenneth Minkema, Yale Divinity School
12:00–1:30	Lunch break • For a selection of nearby restaurants, see the list included in your conference packet.
1:30–3:00
	• Session V • Explorer les récits de voyage à travers les images: L’iconographie viatique en Amérique, XVIe–XVIIIe siècles Room 2117 Chair: Laurier Turgeon, Université Laval Theatrum Floridae: la mise en scène de la rencontre entre les Français et Timucua dans l’iconographie de Jacques le Moyne de Morgues, 1591 Frank Lestringant, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne Pathos et polémique dans la relation de voyage (Antilles et Nouvelle-France, XVIIe siècle) Réal Ouellet, Université Laval Territory, Landscape, and Native American Bodies: Images from the Eighteenth-Century Literature of Travel to New France Stéphanie Chaffray, Université Laval Comment: Tom Conley, Harvard University •Session VI • Salem Revised Room 0236 Chair: John Demos, Yale University Revisiting the Legal Documents of the Salem Witch Trials Margo Burns, Manchester School District, and Bernard Rosenthal, State University of New York, Binghamton Salem Witchcraft, Factionalism, and Social Change Reconsidered Richard Latner, Tulane University The Geography of Witchcraft Accusations in Salem Village, 1692 Benjamin C. Ray, University of Virginia Comment: John Demos • Session VII • Maritime Cultural Landscapes and the Colonial Atlantic Realm Room 1204 Chair: Brad Loewen, Université de Montréal An Approach to the Transformation of the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Atlantic Canada by Migratory European Fishers, 1500–1800 Peter Pope, Memorial University of Newfoundland Reading the Landscape of Bordeaux’s Riverside Port, 1749–1759 Stephanie Whitlock, University of Chicago The Maritime Cultural Landscape of North-Eastern America: Colonisation Process and Transport Zone of the Bateau Plat in Early Canada, 1600–1900 Charles Dagneau, Université de Montréal Comment: Jack Crowley, Dalhousie University • Session VIII • Deism in the Early Republic Room 1121 Chair: Colin Wells, St. Olaf College Nature’s State: Deism and the Development of American Nationalism Eric Schlereth, Brandeis University “Contributing to the Happiness of Living Creation”: The Spiritual “Pull” of Deism in the Early United States Kirsten Fischer, University of Minnesota On the Precipice of Deism: Religion and the Political Unconscious in the Late Eighteenth Century Christopher Grasso, The College of William and Mary Comment: Leigh Eric Schmidt, Princeton University
3:00–3:30	Coffee break • Main Hall, École d’architecture
3:30–5:00
	• Session IX • The Frontiers of Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identities Room 1121 Chair: Rosalind Beiler, University of Central Florida Moravians, Indians, and Slaves: The Challenge of Radical Religion to Gender and Race Norms in Eighteenth-Century North America Aaron S. Fogleman, Northern Illinois University Natives, Moravians, and the Politics of Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut Linford D. Fisher, Harvard University “The People Commonly Known As . . .”: Evangelicalism, Ecumenism, and Religious Identity on the Eighteenth-Century International Stage Kate Engel, West Texas A&M University Frontiers of Body and Soul: Ephrata’s Emigrés in Virginia Elizabeth Pardoe, Independent Scholar Comment: Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah • Session X • The Texts of French Travel to North America Room 2117 Chair: Sophie Linon-Chipon, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne Richard Hakluyt’s French Connection: New France and the Principal Navigations of the English Nation Mary Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Encounter Scenes in Eighteenth-Century New France: Coming to the Shore and Crossing Boundaries Catherine Briand, Université Laval Reading Culture, Reading Canada through the Jesuit Relations Scott M. Stevens, University of Buffalo Shamanism, Providence, and the Picaresque in Dumont de Montigny’s “Mémoires de L ___D___” Gordon Sayre, University of Oregon Comment: The Audience • Session XI • Women and Political Imagery in Early America Room 1204 Chair: Sheila Skemp, University of Mississippi Abigail Adams, Gender Politics, and “The History of Emily Montague” Elaine F. Crane, Fordham University Politics in the Portrait Edith B. Gelles, Stanford University “Thinking with women”: Gender Imagery and the Conflict between Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University The French Education of Jefferson’s Daughters Catherine Kerrison, Villanova University Comment: The Audience • Session XII • Music in New France: Sound, Sociability, and Ritual Room 0236 Chair: Alain Laberge, Université Laval Le paysage sonore de la Nouvelle-France Jean-François Plante, Université Laval Singing and Missions in New France: A Meeting Ground between Cultures Paul-André Dubois, Université Laval Private Musical Practice in New-France: A Reflexion of Old France Elisabeth Gallat-Morin, Université de Montréal Comment: The Audience
5:30–7:00	Reception, hosted by Quebec City. Salle du Conseil, Hôtel de Ville, 2, rue des Jardins.
7:15–9:30	Evening walking tour of Old Quebec, guided by David Mendel. The fee for this tour is $18.00 US/$20.00 CDN, prepaid, with no refunds.