# 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