Colonalization & Globalization c. 1500-1800
Conference at Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Friday 26th and Saturday 27th September, 2008
Friday, 26th September
09.00am
Nicholas Canny, National University of Ireland, Galway, “Atlantic History and Global History: Division or Conflict?”
Luca Codingola, Università di Genova “The Holy See and Evangelism: Global versus Atlantic, 1496-1760”
2.00pm
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University, “Science, Circumnavigation and Modernity”
William O’Reilly, University of Cambridge, “News, Millenarianism, and the novus ordo mundi”
10.30am
Tea/Coffee break
11.00am
Student Session (3 x 20min)
12.30pm – 2.00pm
Light lunch (Moffett’s Restaurant, NUI, Galway)
3.30pm
Tea/Coffee break
4.00pm – 5.30pm
Student session (3 x 20min)
Saturday, 27th September
9.00am
Phil Morgan, Johns Hopkins "The Early Caribbean and the Wider Atlantic World"
Igor Perez Tostado, University of Seville, “Ireland and the Iberian World”
10.30am
Tea/Coffee break
11.00am
Student Session (3 x 20min)
12.30pm – 2.00pm
Light lunch
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Richard Dunn, University of Pennsylvania, "The Demographic Contrast between Slave Life in Jamaica and Virginia, 1760-1865"
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas, “Spanish Imperial Natural History in a Global Context”
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