#  The Circulation of Ideas, 1500-1825 

 



**2000 Annual Seminar**

**Tuesday, August 8**

**SESSION 1**

**Limpieza de Sangre**  
**Chair**: **Patricia Seed**, Rice University

**María Elena Martínez**, University of Chicago  
"Religion, Purity, and 'Race': The Spanish Concept of 'Limpieza de Sangre' in Seventeenth-Century Mexico and the Broader Atlantic World"

**Guillaume Aubert**, Tulane University  
["Colonial Mésalliances: The Metropolitan Roots of Racial Prejudice in the French Americas"](/Aubert%20WP-00001 "Colonial Mésalliances: The Metropolitan Roots of Racial Prejudice in the French Americas")

**SESSION 2**

**Conceiving of the Other**  
**Chair**: **Todd M. Endelman**, University of Michigan

**Holly Snyder**, Brandeis University  
["The Jew as Citizen: Or, Moses Mendelssohn's Atlantic Moment, 1757-1831"](/Snyder%20WP-00003 "The Jew as Citizen: Or, Moses Mendelssohn's Atlantic Moment, 1757-1831")

**Katherine Hermes**, Central Connecticut State University  
["How Moses Crossed the Atlantic: John Weemes and Philo-Semitism in Colonial New England"](/Hermes%20WP-00004 "How Moses Crossed the Atlantic: John Weemes and Philo-Semitism in Colonial New England")

**Denise Spellberg**, University of Texas, Austin  
["Islam on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Voltaire's *Mahomet*](/node/850176)[ as a Transatlantic Case Study in the History of Ideas"](/Spellberg%20WP-00005 "Islam on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Voltaire's Mahomet as a Transatlantic Case Study in the History of Ideas")

**Wednesday, August 9**

**SESSION 3**

**The Idea of Marriage: The British Atlantic Context**  
**Chair**: **Nancy Cott**, Yale University

**Sarah M. S. Pearsall**, Harvard University  
[" 'As good Wives ought to be': The Shifting Dynamics of Marriage and Authority"](/Pearsall%20WP-00006 ""As good Wives ought to be": The Shifting Dynamics of Marriage and Authority")

**Nuran Çinlar**, University of Otago, New Zealand  
["Advice to Bachelors: Reading about Marriage in the Colonial Chesapeake"](/Cinlar%20WP-00007 "Advice to Bachelors: Reading about Marriage in the Colonial Chesapeake")

**SESSION 4**

**Ideas of Sex and Its Regulation**  
**Chair**: **Randolph Trumbach**, Baruch College, CUNY

**Mauricio Damián Rivero**, University of Miami  
["Impure Acts: Sexual and Marital Regulation in the Spanish World"](/Rivero%20WP-00008 "Impure Acts: Sexual and Marital Regulation in the Spanish World")

**Susan Newton-King**, University of the Western Cape, South Africa  
["Crimes against Nature at the Cape of Good Hope: A Short Paper about a Dog"](/Newton-King%20WP-00009 "Crimes against Nature at the Cape of Good Hope: A Short Paper about a Dog")

**Friday, August 11**

**SESSION 5**

**Agents of Enlightenment Thought**  
**Chair**: **James Kloppenberg**, Harvard University

**Anthony Page**, University of Adelaide, Australia  
[" 'Liberty has an asylum': John Jebb, British Radicalism, and the American Revolution"](/Page%20WP-00010 ""Liberty has an asylum": John Jebb, British Radicalism, and the American Revolution")

**Mark G. Spencer**, University of Western Ontario  
["The Circulation of David Hume's Works in Eighteenth-Century America"](/Spencer%20WP-00011 " The Circulation of David Hume's Works in Eighteenth-Century America")

**Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall**, California State University at San Marcos  
["Building an Atlantic Republican Network: Henri Grégoire, the Americas, and the Legacy of the French Revolution"](/Sepinwall%20WP00012 "Building an Atlantic Republican Network: Henri Grégoire, the Americas, and the Legacy of the French Revolution")

**SESSION 6**

**Scotland's Centrality in the Flow of Ideas**  
**Chair**: **Ned Landsman**, SUNY—Stony Brook

**Sarah Knott**, University of Oxford / University of London  
"The Circulation and Americanization of Sensibility: Scotland to Philadelphia"

**Joseph S. Lucas**, Wesleyan University  
"Scottish Conjectural History, Indian Affairs, and Missionary Theory in the Early-Nineteenth-Century United States"

**Saturday, August 12**

**SESSION 7**

**Pennsylvania and German Protestantism**  
**Chair**: **A. Gregg Roeber**, Pennsylvania State University

**Ulrike Kirchberger**, University of London  
"Henry Melchior Mühlenberg and the Making of German Protestantism in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania"

**Peter Vogt**, Boston University School of Theology  
"The Circulation and Transformation of Ideas about the Church in the Atlantic World: The Case of German Immigrant Groups in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania"

**Monday, August 14**

**SESSION 8**

**Science, Technology, and the Atlantic Connections**  
**Chair**: **I. Bernard Cohen**, Harvard University

**Michael F. Conlin**, Eastern Washington University  
"Joseph Priestley's American Defense of Phlogiston Theory: The Political Dimension"

**James D. Delbourgo**, Columbia University  
"Perkins's Tractors and Trans-Atlantic Scientific Culture at the End of the Eighteenth Century"

**Nicholas Dew**, Cambridge University  
"Atlantic Triangulation: The French Scientific Expedition to Gorée and the Antilles, 1681-1683"

**SESSION 9**

**Jonathan Edwards and the Circulation of Scholarship**  
**Chair**: **David D. Hall**, HarvardUniversity

**Robert E. Brown**, University of Missouri at Kansas City  
"Storks on the Moon and Other Invented Absurdities: Critical Historical Interpretation and the Shaping of Eighteenth-Century American Religious Discourse"

**Stephen A. Wilson**, Valparaiso University  
"A Reassessment of the Reformation Context of Jonathan Edwards' Puritan Heritage"

**Tuesday, August 15**

**SESSION 10**

**American Ideas and European Sources**  
**Chair**: **Joyce Chaplin**, Harvard University

**Scott Breuninger**, University of Wisconsin at Madison  
"Westward the Course of Empire: The Translatio Tradition and Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Theories of Historical Development"

**Seth Cotlar**, Willamette University  
"Reading the Foreign News, Imagining an American Public Sphere: The Democratic-Republican Societies in Trans-Atlantic Context, 1793-98"

**SESSION 11**

**Anglophone Ideas Abroad**  
**Chair**: **Bernard Bailyn**, Harvard University

**Carmen McEvoy**, University of the South at Sewanee  
"The Influence of Thomas Paine on Peruvian Republicanism, 1810-1822"

**Elsa Dias**, Purdue University  
"America and Portugal: In Search of a Luso-American Political Tradition"

**Wednesday, August 16**

**SESSION 12**

**Visions of State Formation in Latin America**  
**Chair**: **Doris Sommer**, Harvard University

**Jochen Meißner**, Universität Hamburg  
"Motivations, Ideas, Functions, Methodology, and Styles of Nineteenth-Century Spanish-American Historiography"

**Elías José Palti**, Universidade Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina  
"The Problem of 'Misplaced Ideas' Revisited: Beyond the History of Ideas"

**Thursday, August 17**

**SESSION 13**

**Ideas of Slavery**  
**Chair**: **David Brion Davis**, Yale University

**Michael J. Guasco**, Oberlin College  
"The Idea of Slavery in the Anglo-Atlantic World before 1619"

**Christopher L. Brown**, Rutgers University  
"The End of Innocence: Slavery, Politics, and the Idea of Moral Responsibility, 1764-1783"

**Eric Slauter**, University of Chicago  
"Political Slavery and the Circulation of Rights on the Eve of the American Revolution"

**SESSION 14**

**Ideas of Freedom**  
**Chair**: **David Brion Davis**, Yale University

**Célia M. Azevedo**, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil  
["*The Ethiopian Redeemed* and the Circulation of Antislavery Ideas"](/Azevedo-wp00031)

**Keila Grinberg**, Universidade Federal de Fluminense, Brazil  
"Freedom Suits: Manumission and Civil Law in Brazil and in the United States"

**Friday, August 18**

**SESSION 15**

  
**Summary and Interpretation**

Members of the Seminar