Students and faculty are invited to attend workshop sessions. However, there will be no presentation of the papers, and we therefore expect attendees to have read the papers beforehand so that they can participate fully in our discussion. Those interested in attending should email Lindsey Gish, Atlantic History Workshop Coordinator, to receive the password to gain access to the papers.
Friday, May 4, 2007
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Michigan League, Koessler Room
1:30 - Introductory Remarks: Jennifer Palmer
1:30-2:30 - Keynote Speaker: Dr. Dwain Pruitt
"Nantes Noir: Investigating the Early Modern Black Atlantic World."
2:45-3:45 - Panel 1 - Atlantic Circulation: Migration and Diaspora of People of Color
Chair - Dr. Rachel O'Toole, Assistant Professor, History, University of California, Irvine
Lara Stein Pardo, Anthropology, University of Michigan
“Caribbean Migration: An Overview of Patterns and Experiences”
Lindsey Gish, History, Michigan State University
"The Story of Marie Noël Adonis: Immigration, Integration and Establishment of a Free Colored Social Network in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans"
Comment - Dr. Suanne Caulfield, Associate Professor, History and Latin American Studies, University of Michigan
3:45-4:45 - Panel 2: Expanding the Four Corners of the Atlantic
Chair - Dr. David Hancock, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Tracy Hoffman, Literature, Baylor University
"Washington Irving's A Tour on the Prairies Transports Atlantic Culture Westward"
Jonathan Eacott, History, University of Michigan
"Independence, India, and Illicit Trade: Atlantic Connections in an Anglophone World, 1783-1813"
Comment - Dr. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Assistant Professor, History, University of Michigan
6:30 - Dinner at Bella Ciao for speakers, panelists, and invited guests
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Michigan State University, East Lansing
Room 105 AB, Kellogg Center
10:00 - Bus leaves University of Michigan, from outside Rackham
11:00-12:00 - Panel 3: The Slave Trade and Abolition: Rethinking 1807
Chair- Dr. Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University
Asli Berktay, Latin American Studies, Tulane University
"The Slave Trade to Spanish America in the first half of the Eighteenth Century: The French and British Asiento Trades"
Daniel Livesay, History, University of Michigan
"Race and Demography: The Impact of Abolitionism on Mixed-Race Britons"
Comment- Dr. Christine Daniels, Michigan State University
12:15-2:00 - Lunch
2:00-3:00 - Panel 4: Race and the Nation in Latin America
Chair - Dr. Laurent Dubois , Michigan State University
Graham Nessler, History, University of Michigan
"An Aborted Abolition: Citizenship, Race, and Nation in Santo Domingo, 1793- 1804"
Alberto Nickerson, History, Michigan State University
"Ocean to Ocean: Central American State Formation and the Building and Defending of Afro-Central American Communities in the Nineteenth Century"
Comment - Dr. Peter Beattie, Michigan State University
3:15-4:45 - Panel 5: Race and Gender in Atlantic Analysis
Chair - Dr. Daina Berry, Michigan State University
Kelly Watson, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
"Representing the Cannibal: Gender and Cannibalism in the New World"
Nicole Ribianszky, History, Michigan State University
"'No Progenitor of Hers Was Ever at Any Time A Negroe or Mulattoe:' Free Women of Color, the Performance of Whiteness, and Passing in Natchez, Mississippi from 1779-1880"
Jennifer Palmer, History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
"Feminine Authority and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century La Rochelle"
Comment- Dr. Nwando Achebe, Michigan State University and Dr. Erika Windler, Michigan State University
4:45 - Introduction of Speaker: Lindsey Gish
4:45-5:45 - Keynote Speaker: Dr. John Garrigus
"The Man Who Started the Haitian Revolution: The Many Identities of Vincent Ogé"
5:45 - Closing Remarks: Jennifer Palmer and Lindsey Gish
6:00 - Dinner provided for all speakers, panelists, and invited guests
8:30 - Bus leaves Lansing for Ann Arbor