Transatlantic Networks

2003 Annual Seminar

Tuesday, August 12

SESSION 1

Crosscurrents of Transatlantic Radicalism
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

David M. Fitzsimons, University of Rhode Island
"Citizen Paine and International Identity in the Atlantic World circa 1800"

John Donoghue, University of Pittsburgh
" 'Hell Broke Loose': London's Coleman Street Ward and the Atlantic World of Radical Republicanism, 1624-1661"

SESSION 2

Urban Systems
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Jeremy Mumford, Yale University
"The Right To Be Different in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Empire: Transatlantic Context and an Andean Exchange"

Emma Hart, University of St. Andrews
" 'The Public Works are every where carrying on with Spirit': Public Space and Civic Identity in Charleston, 1730-1790"

Wednesday, August 13

SESSION 3

Transatlantic Trade Networks
Chair: David Hancock, University of Michigan

Sheryllynne Haggerty, Brunel University
"Absent Kings in Jamaica? Business Networks and Family Ties: The View from Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica"

Silvia Marzagalli, TEMIBER and Université de Bordeaux
"The Establishment of a Transatlantic Trade Network: Bordeaux and the United States, 1783-1815"

Thursday, August 14

PLENARY SESSION

Atlantic History: The State of the Art

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Commentary on Horst Pietschmann, ed., History of the Atlantic System, 1580-1830 (2002)

Malick Ghachem, Harvard University
Commentary on L'Atlantique, special issue of Dix-Huitième Siècle 33 (2001)

Friday, August 15

SESSION 4

Africans and African Culture Abroad
Chair: Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University

Rachel O'Toole, Villanova University
" 'From the Same Land': Colonial Casta and African Networks in Seventeenth-Century Peru"

Javier Villa Flores, University of Illinois at Chicago
" 'The Speaking Arts of the Devil': Divination and Ventriloquism among Slave Women in Seventeenth-Century Colonial Mexico"

SESSION 5

Extra-National Networks
Chair: Rose Beiler, University of Central Florida

Kate Carté Engel, Rutgers University, Camden
" 'Commerce that the Lord could Sanctify and Bless': Moravian Participation in Transatlantic Trade, 1740-1760"

Denver A. Brunsman, Princeton University
"Everyday Escapes: The Art of Evading the British Press Gang"

Saturday, August 16

SESSION 6

Dutch Networks
Chair: David Voorhees, New York University

Susanah Shaw, University of Houston
"The Women of Amsterdam and the Formation of Transatlantic Networks, 1609-1664"

Christian Koot, University of Delaware
"In Pursuit of Profit: Persistent Dutch Influence on the Inter-Imperial Trade of New York and the Lesser Antilles"

Monday, August 18 

SESSION 7

Gaelic Disperals and Migration Networks
Chair: Marianne Wokeck, Indiana University / Purdue University Indianapolis

Joanne McKay, University of Ulster
"Arthur Dobbs and Henry McCulloh: Developing the Empire, 1725-1765"

Amanda Epperson, University of Glasgow
" 'If You Intend to Come': Networks, the Migration Process, and Highland Emigration to the United States"

SESSION 8

Revolutionary Impulses
Chair: Susan Socolow, Emory University

Beatriz Dávilo, Universidad Nacional de Rosario
"Travels, Correspondence, and Newspapers in the Constitution of Transatlantic Political and Intellectual Networks: Rio de la Plata, 1810-1825"

Sharilyn Geistfeld, University of Minnesota
"Plotting Females from Paris to Salvador: Women's Agency and Struggles for Equality in the 1796 'Conspiracy of Equals' and in the 1798 'Tailors' Conspiracy' in Salvador, Brazil"

Tuesday, August 19

SESSION 9

French Connections
Chair: Leslie Choquette, Assumption College

Paul Cohen, Université Paris—VIII
"Mediating Linguistic Difference in the Early Modern French Atlantic World: Linguistic Diversity in Old and New France"

Christopher Hodson, Northwestern University
"Conversations with Power: The Acadians' Atlantic, 1755-1785"

Wednesday, August 20

SESSION 10

Religion and the Creation of Race
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Travis Glasson, Columbia University
"Masters and Pastors: The SPG and the Conversion of African Americans in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic"

SESSION 11

Summary and Interpretation
Members of the Seminar