2022
OI 27th Annual Conference
Co-sponsored with Colonial Williamsburg and William & Mary
“For 2026: Revolutionary Legacies”
Williamsburg, Virginia
October 28-30, 2022
2021
OI 26th Annual Conference
ONLINE June 17-19, 2021
2020
We suspended in-person events in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and postponed the 2020 annual conference until June 2021.
2019
OI 25th Annual Conference
June 13—16, 2019
University of Pittsburgh
Program Committee: Molly Warsh (Chair), Tara Bynum, Elizabeth Ellis, Niklas Frykman, Fabrício Prado
Lapidus Initiative Digital Collections Fellowship Symposium
September 26–27, 2019
William & Mary Office, Washington DC
Moderator: Molly O’Hagan Hardy
Law and Legal Culture in Early America (a symposium in conjunction with an exhibit of rare books from the collection of Sid Lapidus at the W&M Law School Wolf Law Library, titled “British and Colonial Antecedents to American Liberties”)
October 18, 2019
W&M Law School, Williamsburg, VA
Program Committee: James Ambuske, Warren Billings, Randall Flaherty, and Linda Tesar
2018
OI 24th Annual Conference and 75th anniversary celebration
June 14—17, 2018
William & Mary
Program Committee: Alan Taylor (Chair), Christian Ayne Crouch, Philip Gould, Eric Hinderaker, Simon P. Newman, Carla Gardina Pestana
Trans-American Crossings: Enslaved Migrations Within the Americas and Their Impacts on Slave Cultures and Societies
June 1—3, 2018
The John Carter Brown Library
Program Committee: Alex Borucki, Jennifer Morgan, Greg O’Malley
2017
OI 23rd Annual Conference
June 15—17, 2017
University of Michigan
Program Committee Chairs: David Hancock (Chair), Patrick Griffin, Margaret Newell, Joseph Rezek
2016
Region and Nation in American Histories of Race and Slavery
October 6—9, 2016
Mount Vernon, Virginia
Program Committee: Ira Berlin, Scott Casper, James Sidbury, Stephanie Smallwood
OI 22nd Annual Conference
June 23—26, 2016
Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts
Program Committee Chairs: Steven Bullock, Paul Erickson, Wilhelm Klooster
2015
Emerging Histories of the Early Modern French Atlantic
October 16—18, 2015
Williamsburg, Virginia
Program Committee Chairs: Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth
OIEAHC-SEA Conference (OI 21st Annual Conference)
June 18—21, 2015
Loyola University, Chicago and the University of Chicago
Program Committee Chairs: Kristina Bross and Eric Slaughter
2014
OI 20th Annual Conference
June 12—14, 2014
Dalhousie University and Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Program Committee Chairs: Justin Roberts and Elizabeth Mancke
2013
The Québec Act of 1774: Transnational Contexts, Meanings, and Legacies
October 4—5, 2013
Montréal, Québec
Program Committee Chairs: François Furstenberg and Ollivier Hubert
OI 19th Annual Conference
June 13—15, 2013
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Program Committee Chair: Philip D. Morgan
Africans in the Americas: Making Lives in a New World, 1675—1825
March 14—16, 2013
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
Program Committee Chair: Laurent Dubois
2012
OI 18th Annual Conference
June 14—17, 2012
Huntington Library, San Marino
Program Committee Chairs: Peter C. Mancall and Carole Shammas
The “Political Arithmetick” of Empires in the Early Modern Atlantic World, 1500—1807
March 16—18, 2012
University of Maryland, College Park
Program Committee Chairs: Holly Brewer and Peter Thompson
2011
OI 17th Annual Conference
June 17—19, 2011
State University of New York, New Paltz
Program Committee Chairs: Christopher L. Brown and L.H. Roper
Warring for America, 1803—1818
March 31—April 1, 2011
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Program Committee Chairs: Fredrika J. Teute, Nicole Eustace, Rob Parkinson, and Carolyn Brown
Centering Families in Atlantic Worlds, 1500—1800
February 28—March 1, 2011
University of Texas at Austin
Program Committee Chairs: Julie Hardwick, Sarah Pearsall, and Karin Wulf
2010
The Age of Sail, 1450—1850
October 7—10, 2010
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Program Chair: Daniel Vickers
OI 16th Annual Conference
June 11—13, 2010
University of Mississippi, Oxford
Program Chair: Sheila Skemp
2009
The Early Chesapeake: Reflections and Projections
November 19—21, 2009
Solomons St. Mary’s City, Maryland
Program Committee Chairs: John C. Coombs and Lorena Walsh
Contest for Continents: The Seven Years’ War in Global Perspective
October 22—25, 2009
Niagara University and Brock University, Buffalo
Program Committee Chairs: Thomas A. Chambers and David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
Africa, Europe, and the Americas, 1500—1700: a Two-Week Workshop
July 12—26, 2009
Accra, Ghana
OI 15th Annual Conference
June 11—14, 2009
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Program Committee Chairs: Dee Andrews, Eric Hinderaker, and Brett Rushforth
Permanence and the Built Environment of the Pacific Basin, 1700—1820
April 17—18, 2009
University of Southern California
Program Committee Chair: Carole Shammas
2008
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
October 15, 2008
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Williamsburg
Program Committee Chair: Annette Gordon-Reed
Permanence and the Built Environment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
October 3—4, 2008
Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Program Committee Chair: Carole Shammas
Antipopery: The Transatlantic Experience, c. 1530—1850
September 18—20, 2008
McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
OI 14th Annual Conference
June 6—8, 2008
Suffolk University, Boston
Program Committee Chairs: Robert J. Allison and Susan E. Klepp
Religion and Violence in Early America
April 10—13, 2008
Yale University, New Haven
Co-sponsored by Yale University and the OIEAHC
2007
‘The bloody Writing is for ever torn’: Domestic and International Consequences of the First Governmental Efforts to Abolish the Atlantic Slave Trade
August 8—12, 2007
Accra and Elmina, Ghana
Hosted by The Historical Society of Ghana and the University of Cape Coast