Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht
23 August 2019
2:30pm welcome (Susanne Lachenicht (Bayreuth))
2:45-5:45pm Atlantic Worlds and Slavery I, chair: Trevor Burnard (Melbourne)
James Almeida (Harvard): Minting Slavery: Labor and Race in Potosí, 1570-1800, tutor: Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber (Poitiers)
Annika Bärwald (Bremen): Ports of Non-White Mobility: African, Asian, and American Laborers in Hamburg and Altona, 1750-1840, tutor: Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy (Monticello)
Liana-Beatrice Valerio (Warwick): Emotional Worlds of the Slave-Holding Atlantic, tutor: Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock)
7pm Keynote Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway): Imagining Ireland's Pasts
24 August
9-11am Atlantic Worlds and Slavery II, chair: Lauric Henneton (Versailles – Saint Quentin)
Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber (Poitiers): Regulations of unfree labor systems in the British and French Atlantics, 17th-18th centuries
Michael Bailey (Boston College): Connecting & Transgressing the Atlantic World(s): Irish Catholics, Slavery, & Empire, tutor: Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway)
11-12am Atlantic Worlds and Commodities, chair: Emma Hart (St. Andrews)
Ben Marsh (Kent): Unravelled Dreams: Silkworms and Second Books in Atlantic History
2-4:30pm Atlantic Worlds – Commerce and Trade, chair Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (Seville)
Toby Nash (Melbourne): Imperial Nerve Centres: Fear and Disorder on the Waterfront in French and British America, tutor: Lauric Henneton (Versailles – Saint Quentin)
Randal Grant Kleiser (Columbia University): Emulating Empires: The Inter-Imperial Influences on the Free Port System in the West Indies, tutor: Emma Hart (St. Andrews)
4:30-5:30pm Native American Worlds, chair: Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy (Monticello, VA)
Evan Haefeli (TAMU): The Delaware as Women? New Perspectives on an old Dilemma in Native American History
25 August
9-11am Atlantic History and Social Sciences, chair: Susanne Lachenicht (Bayreuth)
Agatha Bloch (Warsaw): The Portuguese Empire in the context of Social Network Analysis – the early modern interconnected Atlantic World, tutor: Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (Seville)
Emma Hart (St. Andrews): Divided? The Long History of America's Urban-Rural Divide in Transnational Perspective
2pm excursion
26 August
9-11am Atlantic History – Becoming America, chair: Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway, Ireland)
Peter R. Pellizzari (Harvard): A Struggle for Empire: Resistance and Reform in the British Atlantic World, 1760-1778, tutor: Trevor Burnard (Melbourne)
Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy (Monticello/VA): ‘The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind:’ Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University
13pm departure