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Registration for the "Rethinking Boundaries: Transformations in Methods and Approaches to Atlantic History" Conference to be held on February 9 and 10, 2007, at Glucksman Ireland House, New York University is open.
To register go to http://www.nyu.edu/pages/atlantic/conf_form.htm and fill out the form. Details of the program are listed below.
FRIDAY FEBRAURY 9TH
1:30-3:30pm – Panel 1: Methods and Reconsiderations
Aaron Fogelman, Northern Illinois University, “The Atlantic World, 1492-1860s: Definition, Theory, and Boundaries”
Jose C. Moya, UCLA and Barnard College, “Massification, Modernity and the Transformation of the Atlantic World in the 19th Century”
Christine Folch, CUNY, “Fine Dining: Race in Pre-Revolution Cuban Cookbooks”
Noeleen McIlvenna, Wright State University, “Crossing Racial Boundaries in North Carolina”
4:00-6:00pm – Panel 2: Reformulating Law
Sue Peabody, Washington State University and Keila Grinberg, UNIRIO, “Free Soil: An Atlantic Legal Construct”
Linda Rupert, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Creolization and Contraband: Towards a New Human Geography of the Early Modern Caribbean and Atlantic”
Kristen M. Vogel, Texas A&M University, “Borderlands of Freedom: Colonial Legacies and Southern Slave Law in Early Nineteenth-Century Louisiana”
Michael Kimaid, Bowling Green State University, “ ‘Of Land Ordinances and Liberia:’ A Consideration of Geography as a Tool of Early American Expansion”
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 10TH
9:00-11:00am – Panel 3: Spatial Reconceptualizations
Helena Nunes Duarte, University of Calgary, “From Mazagão to Mazagão: Defence and Settlement in the Captaincy of Grão Pará, 1755-1778”
Molly A. Warsh, Johns Hopkins University “Pearls and Power: Global Negotiations and the Early Modern Pearl Trade"
Andrew Apter, UCLA, “History in the Dungeon: Ritual and Memory in Cape Coast Castle, Ghana”
Kariann A. Yokota, Yale University, “Trans-Oceanic Encounters en route to China: A Material Cultural Perspective”
11:15am-1:00pm – Panel 4: Power
Marisa J. Fuentes, University of California, Berkeley, “Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael Pringle Polgreen’s Troubled Archive”
Heather Miyano Kopelson, University of Iowa/MCEAS, “ ‘Transgressing the Law of God & Man’: Regulating Sexual Intimacy in Seventeenth-Century Bermuda”
Jessica A. Krüg, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Kromanti Ethnogenesis as Healing and the Deep Roots of Resistance”
TJ Desch Obi, CUNY, “Combat and Creolization”
2:00-4:00pm – Panel 5: Rethinking Slavery and Its Legacy
Dayo Nicole Mitchell, University of Oregon, “An Atlantic People: Free People of Color in the Caribbean”
Roquinaldo Ferreira, University of Virginia, “Atlantic Microhistories: Slaving, Personal Ties, and Mobility in the Atlantic World (Angola and Brazil)”
Gary T. Van Cott, Tulane University, “Bananas and the American Atlantic, 1880-1945”
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Bryn Mawr College, “Spain's Early Modern Panama Frontier: Pacification, Rebellion, and Negotiation”
4:30-5:30pm – Closing Roundtable
Chairs: Jenny Shaw, New York University, Christian A. Crouch, Bard College
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