| Saturday, June 9
(Sessions: 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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| 8:30 a.m. | Registration opens * Lobby, Level 2, University Center |
| 9:00 | Book exhibits open * Chesapeake A, Level 3 |
| 8:30–10:00 | |
* Session 41 * Lieux de la Mèmoire in the Americas French Colonial Historical Society Commonwealth Auditorium, Level 2 Chair: Catherine Desbarats, McGill University Memory and Landscape: The Inventory of New France Lieux de Mémoire Marc St-Hilaire, Université Laval Ticonderoga: Constructing and Reconstructing a French-British-American-Native Place of Memory Nicholas Westbrook, Fort Ticonderoga Lieux de mémoire of Slavery and Abolition in the French Caribbean: From a Forgotten Past to a Shared National Memory Catherine Reinhardt, Chapman University Comment: Catherine Desbarats |
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* Session 42 * Revolutionary Narratives Chesapeake B, Level 3 Chair: Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin, Madison Beyond George R. T. Hewes: Recovering the Narratives of the Boston Tea Party Participants Benjamin L. Carp, Tufts University Tales of Terror, Stories of Sentiment: Contemporary Interpretations of the Stamp Act Riots Joshua Beatty, College of William and Mary “By the Press we can speak to the Nations”: Ben Franklin, Newspapers, and the Revolutionary Construction of American Identity Rob Parkinson, Shepherd University The Resurrection of John Wise: Mobilization of Ordinary New Englanders in the Revolutionary Movement Christine LaHue, Ohio State University Comment: The Audience |
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* Session 43 * Providence and Science in Early America Chesapeake C, Level 3 Chair: Mark Valeri, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia George Berkeley, The Bermuda Group, and the Providential Language of Vision David Bjelajac, George Washington University The Great Comets of 1680/81: Prophecy and the Politics of Creole Knowledge in New Spain and Colonial New England Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland, College Park New England Immunology: Michael Wigglesworth and the Providence of Medicine Cristobal Silva, Texas Tech University “This marvelous accident”: Writing, Bodies, and Disease in Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Reporte of the New Found Land of Virginia (1590) Kelly Wisecup, University of Maryland, College Park Comment: The Audience |
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* Session 44 * Representing Martyrdom Across the Early Americas James Room, Level 2 Chair: Anne G. Myles, University of Northern Iowa Christopher Columbus, Martyr of Empire of the Americas Elise Bartosik-Vélez, Dickinson College “A crown of endlesse bliss”: Martyrdom in Early Jamestown Melanie Perrault, Salisbury State University The “Persecution” of George Keith: Martyrdom, Masculinity, and Politics in the Later Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic Nicole Mische Gothelf, San José State University Caught in the Middle: Representations of Martyrdom as a Means of Identity-Building among the German “Peace Sects” of Pennsylvania during the Imperial Wars, 1745–1763 Jan Stievermann, University of Tübingen Comment: The Audience |
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| Top | * Session 45 * “Incareration Nation”: Voices from the Early American Gaol York Room, Level 2 Chair: Michele Lise Tarter, College of New Jersey Receiving the “Good Book,” Representing the “Literate” Prisoner Jodi Schorb, University of Florida In Debt to Letters: The Literary Response to Incarceration for Debt in the Early Republic Scott Ellis, Southern Connecticut State University Compulsory Heterosexuality and Prison Reform in Pennsylvania, 1786–1820 Jennifer Manion, Connecticut College The Crime of Color: Enslaved and Free People of African Descent in Virginia’s Jails, 1800–1861 Taja-Nia Henderson, New York University Comment: J. A. Leo Lemay, University of Delaware |
* Session 46 * Literacy Compilations in Eighteenth–Century America Tidewater A, Level 3 Chair: Bryan Waterman, New York University Recycled Words in New England Women’s Commonplace Books Elizabeth Watts Pope, American Antiquarian Society The Anonymous “Instructor”: Compilation, Authority, and the Republican Subject William Huntting Howell, McNeil Center for Early American Studies Snelling’s Truth and Goodrich’s “Kettle of Poetry”: Literary Selection and Literary Satire in Early National America Leon Jackson, University of South Carolina Comment: Robb Haberman, University of Connecticut |
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| Top | * Session 47 * The Further Adventures of Captain John Smith Tidewater B, Level 3 Chair: Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire Captain John Smith’s Quest for El Dorado James Horn, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Love Wounds: History as Symptom in Terrence Malick and John Smith Joseph Fichtelberg, Hofstra University Captain John Smith and the Experience of Others Lisa Voigt, University of Chicago Lost at Sea: Captain John Smith’s Missing Maritime History Joseph Cullon, Dartmouth College Comment: The Audience |
| 10:15–11:45 | |
* Session 48 * Teaching Early America in High School: The Old Chestnuts Commonwealth Auditorium, Level 2 Chairs: Zabelle Stodola, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and Keat Murray, Garden Spot High School Experiential Learning and Early American History: Roasting “The Old Chestnuts” over an Empirical Learning Fire John F. Chappo, North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching Chestnuts and Navajos: Teaching the Old Chestnuts to American Indians Betty Booth Donohue, Wingate High School Teaching the Old Chestnuts Keat Murray, Garden Spot High School Comment: The Audience |
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| Top | * Session 49 * Imagined Empires Chesapeake B, Level 3 Chair: Laura Rigal, University of Iowa Imaginary Bermudas and Local Knowledge Ann Huse, John Jay College, City University of New York Porous Territory: William Gerard De Brahm, Bernard Romans, and William Bartram in Florida Michele Currie, University of California, Irvine Robert Beverley’s Atlantic History Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan Locating Cosmopolitanism: Natural History and Poetic Practice in James Grainger’s “The Sugar-Cane” John Melson, Brown University Comment: The Audience |
* Session 50 * The Challenges of Science in British America Chesapeake C, Level 3 Chair: Andrew J. Lewis, American University From The Way of Light to the American Enlightenment: Comenian Influences on Early American Thought Walt Woodward, University of Connecticut Roger Phequewell, Colonial Man of Science: Re-reading Imperial Fantasy in Merryland Marcia Nichols, University of South Carolina Grounding God’s Providence: Security, the Lightning Rod, and Calvinist Theology in Late–Eighteenth–Century America Josh Matthews, University of Iowa Comment: Andrew J. Lewis |
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| Top | * Session 51 * New Directions in the Study of the American Apprentice James Room, Level 2 Chair: Karin Wulf, College of William and Mary Apprenticeship in Colonial Lima Francisco F. Quiroz, San Marcos State University “Placed and Bound”: Apprenticeship in Devon and Maryland, 1600–1800 Christine Daniels, Michigan State University Cultural Apprenticeship as Social Welfare for a Colonial Republic: What the Benevolent Talked about When They Talked about Indians and Orphans, 1780s–1830s James O’Neil Spady, Soka University of America Not “Slavery”: Black Apprentices in Mississippi and the Rise of a New Peculiar Institution Nancy Zey, University of Texas, Austin Comment: Ruth Herndon, University of Toledo |
* Session 52 * Politics and Language in the New Republic York Room, Level 2 Chair: Richard R. Beeman, University of Pennsylvania The Names of the Fathers: Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Early Republican Politics Christopher Hunter, University of Pennsylvania “The Infamy of Self-Creation”: Newspaper Debates about the Democratic-Republican Societies Michelle Orihel, Syracuse University We the People or We the States: Novels and the Language of Federalism in the Early Republic Keri Holt, Brown University “Must not their languages be savage and barbarous like them?”: Philology and Indian Policy in the Early Republic Sean P. Harvey, College of William and Mary Comment: Richard R. Beeman |
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| Top | * Session 53 * Interdisciplinary Relations between Historians and Literary Scholars Tidewater A, Level 3 Chair: Philip Gould, Brown University Romancing the Revolution: Jefferson’s Declaration Betsy Erkkila, Northwestern University Debating Federalism: The Example of Charles Brockden Brown Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland, College Park Disciplinary Fictions in History and Literature Jonathan Elmer, Indiana University, and Sarah Knott, Indiana University The Conceptual Trade Gap between Atlantic History and Literary Studies Eric Slauter, University of Chicago Comment: The Audience |
* Session 54 * The Female Transtlantic Tidewater B, Level 3 Chair: Stacy Hinthorn Van Beek, University of California, Irvine The Transatlantic “Masque”: Portraits of Colonial Women and the Masquerade Jennifer Van Horn, University of Virginia Women, the Novel, and Transatlanticism Karen Weyler, University of North Carolina, Greensboro “Continual and generous practice of the most heroic virtues”: Challenging Discourses of the Exceptional Woman in the Female Transatlantic Tamara Harvey, George Mason University Comment: Stacy Hinthorn Van Beek |
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* NEH Information Session and Grants Workshop Colony Room, Level 2 Douglas M. Arnold, Senior Program Officer, Division of Education Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities For details, see the Special Events section. |
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| 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. | Lunch break * If you wish to have lunch in the University Center Dining Hall on Level 2, you must sign up and pay for a meal ticket in advance. The Dining Hall is not set up to accept cash from conference groups. Use the Conference Registration Form in the printed brochure or online to reserve a meal ticket. You will find a list of other places to dine in your conference packet. |
| 1:00 | Excursions to Jamestown Settlement and Jamestown Island The conference will provide transportation to and from Jamestown Settlement and Jamestown Island beginning at 1:00. Buses will leave from the University Center every half hour and return to the University Center from Jamestown every half hour, beginning at 1:30. Therefore, if you wish to attend one of the afternoon sessions of the conference at the University Center, you may take a bus to Jamestown when the session ends. As you will see below, two sessions and a plenary will be held at various Jamestown locations between 3:00 and 6:15. The sessions are planned as discussions of sites you have visited on your own during the afternoon. From 2:00–6:00 there will be continuous shuttle service between Jamestown Island and Jamestown Settlement. |
| 1:00–2:30 | |
| Top | * Session 55 * Broader Battlefields: Spheres of Intimacy and Violence in the Era of the Seven Years’ War Chesapeake B, Level 3 Chair: Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University Black Warriors and the British Empire: The Contested Bounds of Race and Civilized Warfare in the Seven Years’ War in the West Indies Maria Alessandra Bollettino, University of Texas, Austin Between “Cruel” and “Civilized” in War: The Language of Violence in New France in the Late Seventeenth Century and the Seven Years’ War Christian Ayne Crouch, Bard College Comment: Susan Juster, University of Michigan |
* Session 56 * Electronic Scholarship in Early American Studies James Room, Level 2 Chair: Shawn Martin, University of Michigan Digital Resources in Early American Historical Research Michelle Harper, Readex The Terms of Inquiry: Electronic Archives and Early American Intellectual History Ed Cahill, Fordham University Electronic Texts in American Studies: A Progress Report and Proposal for Collaborations Paul Royster, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Access to Electronic Scholarship: The View from a Small Institution Mary McAleer Balkun, Seton Hall University Comment: The Audience |
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| Top | * Session 57 * The Early American Novel: A Continental Phenomenon York Room, Level 2 Chair: Elizabeth Barnes, College of William and Mary Novels Before Nations Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University Parallel Nations: Early Novels in the United States and Canada Robert Battistini, Franklin and Marshall College “How Wide a Sphere Her Kindness Shone”: American and Canadian Female Authors Writing the Frontier, 1820–1860 Holly Kent, Lehigh University Comment: Elizabeth Barnes |
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At Jamestown Island * Jamestown Archeological Forum Historic Jamestowne Visitors Center Multipurpose Room, Jamestown Island Digs and Discoveries A discussion with the audience led by William Kelso, Director of Archaeology, Jamestown Rediscovery Project, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities Beverly Straube, Curator, Jamestown Rediscovery Project, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities Audrey J. Horning, Leicester University Rhys Isaac, La Trobe University (Emeritus) Buck W. Woodard, College of William and Mary |
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At Jamestown Settlement * Jamestown Maritime Forum Elmon and Pam Gray Presentation Hall, Jamestown Settlement Crossing the Sea in Ships A discussion with the audience led by Joseph Cullon, Dartmouth College Michael Jarvis, University of Rochester |
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| 5:00–6:15 | * Plenary 2 * Robins Foundation Theater, Jamestown Settlement Atlantic Tales of Treason Lauren A. Benton, New York University |
| 6:30–8:00 | Reception * Robert V. Hatcher, Jr., Rotunda, Jamestown Settlement. Hosted by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Society of Early Americanists. Transportation to the University Center will be available at the end of the reception for those who are not staying for dinner. |
| 8:00–9:30 | Dinner * The Great Hall, Jamestown Settlement. Reservations will be taken in order of receipt, and payment must be made in advance. You may use either the Conference Registration Form in the printed brochure or the online version. Transportation back to the University Center will be available after dinner. |
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