Schedule (CET)
Friday, 27/08/2021
14.30–14.45 Welcome and Introduction
Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht (Bayreuth), Dr. Lauric Henneton (Versailles - Saint Quentin)
14.45–15.30
Introduction to SAAH topic: Atlantic Worlds between the Global and the National
Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat (Regensburg), Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht
15.45–16.30
Presentation of Cluster of Excellence „Africa Multiple“ at the University of Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber (Bayreuth)
16.30–18.00
Keynote 1: An Empire for Slavery: the British Empire, 1688–1763
Prof. Dr. Trevor Burnard (Hull)
Saturday, 28/08/2021
14.00–15.30
Presentation and Discussion of Doctoral Project 1: „What They Call Free in This Country“: Refugees from Slavery in Revolutionary America, 1775–1783
PhD student: James Mackay (Edinburgh), tutor: Prof. Dr. Trevor Burnard (Hull)
15.45–17.15
Presentation of Doctoral Project 2: Consumption, Markets and Politics in Saint-Domingue port-cities in the 18th century
PhD student: Camille Cordier (Lyon), tutor: Dr. Lauric Henneton
17.30–19.00
Presentation and Discussion of Doctoral Project 3: Fictitious Liberties: Tutelage in Luso-Brazilian Empires and Autonomous Amazonian Territorialities (1755–1888)
PhD student: Manoel Rendeiro Neto (UC Davis), tutor: Prof. Dr. Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (UPO Seville)
19.00–20.30
Keynote 2: American Exceptionalism in the Age of Atlantic Revolution, American Exceptionalism Today
Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat
Sunday, 29/08/2021
14.45–16.15
Presentation of Doctoral Project 4: Merchants and the Navy: Politics and the Construction of Naval Professionalism in Early Modern Britain
PhD student: Ryan Mewett (Johns Hopkins), tutor: Dr. Ben Marsh (Kent)
16.30–18.00
Presentation and Discussion of Postdoctoral Project: Social Sketches and the Formation of Global Knowledge in the Atlantic World (1830–1860)
Dr. Florian Grafl (LMU Munich), tutor: Prof. Dr. Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock)
18.00–19.30
Keynote 3: The Global Dust Bowl, Imperial Agriculture, and the Human Stories About Them
Prof. Dr. Gesa Mackenthun
Monday: 30/08/2021
13.30–15.00
Presentation and Discussion of Doctoral Project 5: Webs of Reform: Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Networks, 1830–1865
PhD student: Kate Rivington (Monash University), tutor: Dr. Claire Bourhis-Mariotti (Paris)
15.00–16.30
Presentation and Discussion of Doctoral Project 6: Perceptions of „the night“, „de nacht“, and „la nuit“ in the Greater Caribbean (1660–1795)
PhD student: Adrian van der Velde (Urbana-Campaign), tutor: Prof. Dr. Nicholas Canny (Galway)
16.45–18.15
Presentation of Doctoral Project 7: Spain-U.S. relations in the second half of the 19th century from a trans-imperial perspective
PhD student: Gerard Llorens DeCesaris (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), tutor: Dr. Bethany Aram (UPO Sevilla)
18.00–19.30
Keynote 4: Atlantic Slavery and the Holy Roman Empire
Prof. Dr. Rebekka von Mallinckrodt (Bremen)
19.30–20.30
Final discussion / wrap up