OIEAHC - Conferences - Warfare and Society


8:00 a.m.	Registration opens • Atrium, fourth floor, University of Tennessee Conference Center. All sessions of the conference will take place in Room 413.
8:30	Coffee in the Atrium • Book exhibits open in Room 401.
9:00–9:30	Welcome • Room 413 G. Kurt Piehler, Director, Center for the Study of War and Society Ronald Hoffman, Director, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
	Introduction Paul W. Mapp, College of William and Mary Brett Rushforth, Brigham Young University
9:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Session I: Interpreting Violence across Cultures
	Chair: Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania
	“We tell You if You are angry We are ready to receive You”: The Language of Violence in Miami, French, and British Conceptions of Warfare George Michael Ironstrack, University of Chicago Cruel Furies: Representations of Amerindian Women and Ritual Torture in New France Jean-François Lozier, University of Toronto The Changing Meaning of Violence: The Shift from “Indian” to “Colonial” War in Northern New England, 1675–1699 Christopher Bilodeau, Cornell University The Warriors Who Doth Protest too Much: The Rhetoric and Reality of Wartime Atrocities and the Rules of War in the Revolutionary Carolina Backcountry Rebecca Brannon, University of Michigan
	Comment: Juliana Barr, University of Florida
12:00–1:00	Lunch break
1:00–3:00	Session II: Social and Cultural Geographies of Violence
	Chair: Warren Hofstra, Shenandoah University
	Geography, Subsistence, and Social Structure in the War for Ohio Rob Harper, University of Wisconsin, Madison Imperial Crisis in the Ohio Valley: Indian, Colonial, and British Military Communities, 1760–1774 David L. Preston, The Citadel The Culmination of Destructive Warfare in Colonial America Benjamin L. Carp, Tufts University
	Comment: Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah
3:00–3:30	Refreshment break
3:30–6:00	Session III: The Obligations and Opportunities of Military Service
	Chair: Sylvia R. Frey, Tulane University, emeritus
	Opportunity and Risk in Eighteenth-Century Warfare: Privateering and Fugitive Slaves in British North America Charles R. Foy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and McNeil Center for Early American Studies Gone for a Soldier: Who Were the New England Provincial Soldiers? Steven C. Eames, Mount Ida College Joining the Continental Army: Young Men Coming of Age as Revolutionary Soldiers John Ruddiman, Yale University Friends and Brothers: Boy Soldiers of the Continental Army Caroline Cox, University of the Pacific
	Comment: Elizabeth Mancke, University of Akron
6:30–8:00	Reception at the William Blount Mansion, 200 West Hill Avenue, a walk of about seven blocks from the Conference Center.

Friday, October 6, 2006