Join us for “Currents and Exchanges in Vast Early America” — the OI 28th Annual Conference at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. Co-sponsored with the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World program at the College of Charleston, the conference will feature papers on all topics in vast early American history with a special focus on plantation economies, Native and Indigenous communities, and the environment, in particular, locations in the greater Caribbean or wider Atlantic world affected by capitalist agriculture, forced migration, climate change, and extreme weather events.

The program committee is co-chaired by Joyce Chaplin (Havard University) and Matthew Mulcahy (Loyola University Maryland). 

A keynote by scholar Deirdre Cooper Owens, held in the historic Mother Emanuel AME Church, will begin the conference on Thursday, June 12, 2025.

The conference will take place June 12–14, 2025, on the campus of the College of Charleston and other venues in downtown Charleston.

A full program and information regarding hotels will be published shortly and available on this website.

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