The British Atlantic World

September 28-30, 2001                       

Friday, September 28

Keynote Address

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

"Britain's Atlantic: Beyond Empire"

Saturday, September 29

Session 1: Frameworks

Chair: Sugata Bose, Harvard University

David Armitage, Columbia University, "Three Concepts of Atlantic History"

Michael J. Braddick, University of Sheffield, "State Formation"

Elizabeth Mancke, University of Akron, "Empire and State"

Session 2: Connections

Chair: Claudia Goldin, Harvard University

Alison Games, Georgetown University, "Migration"

Nuala Zahedieh, University of Edinburgh, "The British Atlantic Economy"

Carla Gardina Pestana, Ohio State University, "Religion"

Session 3: Identities

Chair: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University

Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University, "Race"

Keith Wrightson, Yale University, "Class"

Sarah M. S. Pearsall, University of Cambridge, "Gender"

Sunday, September 30

Session 4: Politics

Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire, "Revolution and Counter-Revolution"

Christopher Brown, Rutgers University, "The Politics of Slavery in the British Atlantic, c.1600-1833"

Closing Remarks

J. H. Elliott, University of Oxford