Saturday, June 13
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Saturday, June 13

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Conference registration opens • Foyer, Commander’s House, 1965 De Trobriand Street
    Book exhibits open • North and South Parlors, Commander’s House.
    Coffee • Sun Room, Commander’s House.
  • 9:30–11:30
  • • Session 8 • Pathways of Power in the Eighteenth-Century Backcountry
    South Room, Officers’ Club

    Chair: Peter Silver, Rutgers University

    Iberians, Amerindians, and Americans: Cultural, Diplomatic, and Economic Exchanges across the Trans-Appalachian Backcountry, 1784–1791
    Kevin Barksdale, Marshall University

    Many Roads Traveled: Contested Spaces of Transport in Early Pennsylvania
    Jeffrey Kaja, University of Michigan

    Slave, Not Wife: Sex, Servitude, and Family in Colonial Michilimackinac
    Justin Carroll, Michigan State University

    Comment: Wayne Bodle, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

  • • Session 9 • The Holy Roman Empire’s Many Faces in the Americas
    North Room, Officers’ Club

    Chair: Marianne S. Wokeck, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

    The Territory of Peace: Translation and Cooperation in the Quaker-Schwenkfelder Response to Pennsylvania’s Indian Policies
    Patrick Erben, University of West Georgia

    At the Edge of Empires: Transatlantic Lessons from the Borderlands
    Elizabeth Pardoe, Northwestern University

    Spain, Germany, and Empire: Theory and Practice in North America, 1680–1740
    William O’Reilly, University of Cambridge

    Comment: T. H. Breen, Northwestern University

  • • Session 10 • Poor Europeans in the Early Caribbean: British and French Perspectives
    East Room, Officers’ Club

    Chair: Alison Games, Georgetown University

    Poor Whites in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
    Trevor Burnard, University of Warwick

    Mustering the Foot Soldiers of Imperialism: Poor Whites in Saint Domingue, 1698–1755
    Rob Taber, University of Florida

    “Being none of any account”: Religion and Economic Status in Seventeenth-Century Barbados
    Shona Johnston, Georgetown University

    Comment: Carla Pestana, Miami University, Ohio

  • 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

    Lunch • Food can be purchased at the Chase N. Peterson Heritage Center (151 Connor Street) from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. If you wish to dine off-campus, there are several restaurants on the TRAX line where you can eat and get back in time for the afternoon sessions. These establishments are listed on the Restaurant Guide included in your conference packet.

  • 1:00–3:00
  • • Session 11 • The Fraying of Empire: Natives, Africans, and Imperial Power on the Margins of New Spain
    South Room

    Chair: Juliana Barr, University of Florida

    Sowing Chaos: Spanish and British Dreams of Liberation in the Greater Caribbean
    Peter Silver, Rutgers University

    More than Kin and Less than Kind: Indians and Europeans in the Sixteenth-Century American Southeast
    Jonathan DeCoster, Brandeis University

    A Troublesome, Vital Place: Colonial Panama as Core and Periphery
    Ignacio Gallup-Díaz, Bryn Mawr College

    Comment: Alan Gallay, Ohio State University

  • • Session 12 • Transatlantic Religion: Reform and Revolution
    North Room

    Chair: Emily Clark, Tulane University

    The SPG and the Protestant International during the American Revolution
    Katherine Engel, Texas A&M University

    The Still, Small Voice: How the Quakers Used Reform to Promote a Revolution
    Sarah Crabtree, University of California, Los Angeles

    “Lord, the Oppressed Shall Go Free”: African American Methodists and Antislavery in England and America, 1770–1815
    Anna Lawrence, Florida Atlantic University

    Comment: Cynthia Lyerly, Boston College

  • • Session 13 • Testing the Boundaries: Youth and Authority in Early America
    East Room

    Chair: Rebecca de Schweinitz, Brigham Young University

    Boy Soldiers: Citizenship and Patriarchy in the American Revolution
    Caroline Cox, University of the Pacific

    “To venture a little further”: Freedom, Danger, and Young Female Pedestrians in the Eighteenth-Century City
    Katherine Gray, Johns Hopkins University

    Working Children and Their Parents: Rural New England, 1720–1840
    Gloria Main, University of Colorado

    Comment: Rebecca de Schweinitz

  • 3:00–3:30
    Refreshment break • Sun Room, Commander’s House
  • 3:30–5:30
  • • Session 14 • Plenary Session • Placing the Trans-Mississippi West in Early American History
    Room 109, Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building, 215 South Central Campus Drive (TRAX Stop: U. South Campus)

    Chair/Moderator: David Rich Lewis, Utah State University/Western Historical Quarterly

    Edward Countryman, Southern Methodist University
    Pekka Hämäläinen, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paul W. Mapp, College of William and Mary
    Gwenn A. Miller, College of the Holy Cross
    Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia

  • 6:15–7:45
    Reception • City Library, 210 East 400 South. Hosted by the American West Center, University of Utah; the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University; the Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah; and L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University. Drive or take TRAX (University Line) from the Fort Douglas stop to the Library stop (about a ten-minute ride).