Atlantic History: Regional Networks, Shared Experiences, Forces of Integration
June 21-23, 2007
Thursday, June 21
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Project and Purpose
Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Session I: Frameworks
Aaron Fogleman, Northern Illinois University, “The Atlantic World, 1492-1860s: Definition, Theory, and Boundaries”
Friday, June 22
Session II: Commercial Bindings
Chair: Stephen D. Behrendt, University of Victoria at Wellington, New Zealand
David Hancock, University of Michigan, “The Triumph of Mercury: Connection and Control in the Emerging Atlantic Economy”
Wim Klooster, Clark University, “The History of Inter-Imperial Smuggling in the Americas, 1600-1800”
Session III: Africa: Latent Structures
Chair: J. Gabriel Martínez-Serna, Southern Methodist University
Stephen D. Behrendt, University of Victoria at Wellington, New Zealand, “Seasonality, the Slave Trade, and Atlantic History”
Linda Heywood and John Thornton, Boston University, “Managing the State: African Political Leadership and European Trade in Kongo and Dahomey”
Session IV: The Providential Atlantic
Chair: Mark A. Peterson, University of California, Berkeley
J. Gabriel Martínez-Serna, Southern Methodist University, “Jesuit Networks in the Atlantic World”
Rosalind Beiler, University of Central Florida, “Dissenting Religious Communication Networks and European Migration, 1660-1730”
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas, Austin, “Typology in the Atlantic: What Is ‘Atlantic’ about the Early Modern Biblical Readings of Colonization?”
Session V: Interior Spaces of the Atlantic World
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Emma Rothschild, Harvard University/University of Cambridge, “David Hume and the Sea Gods of the Atlantic”
Saturday, June 23
Session VI: Contact and Exchange: The Circulation of Knowledge in the Atlantic World
Chair: Emma Rothschild, Harvard University/University of Cambridge
Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University, “Scientific Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World”
Neil Safier, University of British Columbia, “Enlightenment between Empires: Hipólito da Costa and the Atlantic World”
Session VII: Worldly Regionalism, North and South
Chair: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas, Austin
Mark A. Peterson, University of California, Berkeley, “Theopolis Americanae: The City-State of Boston, the Republic of Letters, and the Protestant International, 1689-1739”
Beatriz Dávilo, National University of Rosario, Argentina, “The Making of a Republic: The Rio de la Plata and Its Intercourse with the Anglo-Saxon Atlantic World”
Variations on Some Themes of the Conference Papers
Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Roundtable and Discussion