Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht
Program
Sunday, August 25
4-5 pm Opening of the Conference
5-7 pm First Keynote Lecture
Karen O. Kupperman (New York University): Music and Universal Language in the Early Modern Atlantic
7 pm Reception
Monday, August 26
9:30—11 am Illaria Berti (Genoa): European Colonizer and Caribbean Colonized. Identity and Creolisation of Food Consumption Patterns in the 18th Century, comment: Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne)
11:00—11:30 Coffee Break
11:30am—1 pm Katherine E. Arner (Johns Hopkins University): Republic of Fever: Commerce, Warfare and the Making of Warm Climate Medicine in the Age of Atlanctic Revolutions, comment: Sarah Barber (University of Lancaster)
1-2 pm Lunch
2-4 pm Project Workshop: Claudia Schnurmann (Hamburg): Knowledge and Correspondence Networks
4-6 pm Free Roaming
Tuesday, August 27
9:30—11 am Craig Gallagher (Boston College): Scottish Merchants and Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World, comment: Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway/ERC Brussels)
11—11:30 am Coffee Break
11:30am—1 pm Jordan Buchanan Smith (Georgetown University): Liquor and Knowledge Transfer in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, comment: Owen Stanwood (Boston College)
1 pm Excursion
8-9 pm Second Keynote Lecture
Hermann Wellenreuther (Göttingen): Interdependency, Interaction, and Communication as Key Terms of Atlantic History
9 pm Reception
Wednesday, August 28
9:30—11 am Asheesh Kapur Siddique (Columbia University): Daring to Ask: the Questionnaire and the Problem of Knowledge in the Late 18th Century British Atlantic Enlightenment, comment: David L. Smith (Cambridge)
11—11:30 am Coffee Break
11:30 am—1 pm Ida Federica Pugliese (Galway): The Asymmetric Dimension of Enlightenment Circulation of Knowledge: Atlantic Questionnaires in the 18th Century, comment: Lauric Henneton (Université Versailles-Saint Quentin)
1-3 pm Lunch
3-5 pm Roundtable on Atlantic History between Area Studies and Global History: Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway/ERC Brussels), Susanne Lachenicht (Bayreuth), Matthias Middell (Leipzig), Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (EUI Florence), Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne)
8 pm Conference Dinner
Thursday, August 29
9:30—11 am Anne Sophie Overkamp (Bayreuth): An Eldorado of the Industrious, a Zion of the Pious—Middling Classes of Elberfeld and Barmen around 1800 in their Global context, comment: Bartolomé Yun
Casalilla (EUI Florence)
11—11:30 am Coffee Break
11:30am-1 pm Alyssa Zuercher Reichardt (New Haven): French, British and Indiginous Imperial Communication Networks in the Contest for the Ohio Valley and North America, 1739—1768, comment: Hermann Wellenreuther (Göttingen)
1-2 pm Wrap up