#  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