Friday, February 26th
11:00 am – 1:00 pm: Registration at Ireland House
1:00 – 1:30: Welcome – Dr. Karen Kupperman (NYU)
1:30 – 3:30: Panel 1: Migration, Emigration and Expulsion
Jeffrey Fortin (SUNY Oneonta) – "Unsettling of a nation is easy: the settling is not:" Removal and the construction of empire in the long eighteenth century
Mariana Perez (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina) – How to Migrate to the River Plate: migratory strategies of low-income Spaniards during the last few decades of colonial times
Andrés Estefane (SUNY Stony Brook) – Scientific Expeditions, Territorial Disputes, and the Forging of a National Historiography: the case of Chile
Daniel Papsdorf (Wichita State University) – A Fluid Frontier: the Mississippi during the Revolutionary War
4:00 – 6:00: Keynote Address
Fredrika Teute (Omohundro Institute, College of William and Mary) - "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive": love and abandon in the 1790s
Saturday, February 27
9:00 – 11:00: Panel 2: The Local in the Atlantic
Martha Few (University of Arizona) – The Fetus as Colonial Subject: gender, race, and reproduction in the eighteenth-century Spanish Atlantic
Liza Gijanto (Syracuse University) – Commerce, authority, and consumption in Niumi, the Gambia, during the height of the Atlantic trade
James Coltrain (Northwestern University) – Fuerte Real: The Castillo San Marcos and provincial identity in the Atlantic world
Steve Lenik (Syracuse University) – Moving Beyond the Mission in Frontiers and Borderlands: A Jesuit plantation and church within the cultural landscape of Grand Bay Quarter, Dominica, West Indies, 1748-1763
11:15 – 1:15: Panel 3: Negotiating Interstitial Power
Ross Newton (Northeastern University) – Networking and Empire: politics and territorial sovereignty in the Bay of Honduras
Adrian Finucane (Harvard University) – Anglo-Spanish Imperial Interaction in the Caribbean, 1713-1739
Christopher Ebert (CUNY Brooklyn College) – Maintaining Exclusion: British trade with Brazil after the War of the Spanish Succession: 1714-1750.
Luis Granados (University of Chicago) – Crust and Crumb of the U.S.-Mexican War
2:15 – 4:15: Panel 4: Mechanisms of Imperial Control
Karen Racine (University of Guelph) – Coded Anti-colonialism: The use (and misuse) of Napoleon in the rhetoric and practice of late colonial Spanish American patriotism, 1808-1814
Elena Schneider (Princeton) – British Occupation and the Limits of Imperial Sovereignty in 18th-century Havana
Pernille Røge (Oxford) – Danish, British and French colonial experimentation on the West African Coast, 1780s - 1790s
Akin Ogundiran (UNC Charlotte) – Political Economy and Cultural Works of the Old Oyo Empire
4:30 – 5:30: Closing Roundtable
States, Nations, Empires and Polities in the Long 18th Century
Jerusha Westbury (NYU), Anelise Shrout (NYU)
