Saturday, October 4, 2008

9:00 a.m.	Registration and coffee Friends Hall, The Huntington Library
9:30	Session III: Was the Eighteenth Century a Turning Point in Durability and Preservation of Private Houses and Plantations?
9:30–11:00	Profits over Permanence: Speculative Building Practices, Investment in Real Estate, and the Quality of Housing in a Colonial American City Emma Hart, University of St. Andrews Permanence and Impermanence in Eighteenth-Century English Housing Provision for the Rural Poor John Broad, London Metropolitan University Comment: Richard L. Bushman, Claremont Graduate University
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.	“Of the Structure and Solidity of a House of Cards”: The Utility of Selective Impermanence on Chesapeake Region Plantations John Michael Vlach, George Washington University Impermanent Revolution: Built Environments of Cuba’s Sugar Zone, 1760–2007 Dale Tomich, State University of New York, Binghamton Comment: Lorena S. Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg
12:30–2:00	Lunch
2:00	Session IV: The Impact of Natural Disasters and Risk Management
2:00–3:30	“That Fatal Spott”: The Rise and Fall—and Rise and Fall Again—of Port Royal, Jamaica Matthew Mulcahy, Loyola College in Maryland Urban Renewal or Plus ça change? The Impact of Fire and Fire Insurance on Eighteenth-Century English Towns Robin Pearson, University of Hull Comment: Arwen Mohun, University of Delaware
3:30	Concluding Remarks Carole Shammas, University of Southern California A reception will follow on the Garden Terrace at the Huntington Library. Coffee will be available between papers.