A Workshop of the Atlantic History Seminar Harvard University
April 26, 2008

The Workshop Program is now available.

9:30-10:00 a.m.
Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Introduction

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Allan Greer, University of Toronto "Feudal North America"

11:00-11:15 a.m. Break

11:15-12:15 a.m.
Stuart Banner, University of California, Los Angeles "Manhattan for $24: Interpreting Indian Land Transactions of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"

Rebecca Horn, University of Utah
"A Patchwork in the Countryside: Nahua and Spanish Land Tenure Practices in Central New Spain"

12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00-3:00 p.m.
Claire Priest, Northwestern University "Understanding the End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period"

3:00-4:00 p.m.
Lauri Tähtinen, University of Cambridge "Views of Land among the Jesuits and Amerindians in Sixteenth-Century Brazil"

4:00-4:15 p.m. Break

4:15-5:15 p.m.
Faren Siminoff, Nassau Community College "Creating Atlantic America: Transforming Land to Property in the Seventeenth-Century Southern New England Basin"

5:30-7:00 p.m. Reception

Attendance at the Workshop and participation in the discussion are open to the academic community. Historians at the beginning of their careers are especially encouraged to attend. Travel and accommodation expenses will be the responsibility of attendees, though the Workshop can provide local lodging information. Pre-registration is required; an on-line form is available at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/regform_land.html

Please direct questions to the Atlantic History Seminar Office, by phone (617-496-3066) or e-mail .