CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (EEASA)
Protest and Persuasion: Writing, Print, Speech and Performance
in Early America and the Atlantic World
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
11-13 December 2014
Thursday 11 December 2014
10am-1pm
Tour of Lublin
12noon-2pm
Meeting of EEASA Board
1.30pm-2pm
Conference Registration
2pm-2.15pm
Welcome and Introduction,
Susanne Lachenicht (Bayreuth, EEASA chair), Irmina Wawrzyczek (Lublin)
2.15pm-3.15pm
First Keynote Lecture:
Alison Games (Georgetown): The Amboyna Massacre's American Journey: A Global Perspective
Introduced by: Irmina Wawrzyczek
3.30pm-5.30pm
Workshop 1: Protest and Persuasion during the American Revolution and the Early Republic
Chair: Monica Henry (Paris Est Créteil)
Andrew O’Shaughnessy (Monticello): Paine’s War: Rhetoric and Persuasion in the American Revolution
Gaye Wilson (Monticello): Image as Persuasion: A Study of John Trumbull’s Painting ‘The Declaration of Independence’
Maurizio Valsania (Torino): Performing Natural Wonders: Thomas Jefferson's Irresistible Persuasion
Vanessa Mongey (Pittsburgh): Performing Citizenship when Abroad: Affiliations in the Early Republic
5.30pm-6.00pm coffee break
6.00pm-8.00pm
Panel 1: “It Will Oblige Your Constant Readers”: Newspapers, Agency, and the Language of Atlantic Commerce
Chair: Allan Potofsky (Paris-Diderot)
Simon Middleton (Sheffield): Runaways, Rewards, and the Social History of Money
Emily Buchnea (Nottingham): Beyond Price Currents: Reflections of American Business in British Commercial Press, 1783-1820
Angel-Luke O’Donnell (Liverpool): Raising and Increasing the Jealousy of Great Britain: Protest, Confidence, and Domestic Manufacturing in Philadelphia, 1765 to 1774
Emma Hart (St Andrews): The Political Economy in Print: Economic Discussions in the Revolutionary British Atlantic
Friday 12 December 2014
9am-10am
Second Keynote Lecture:
Simon Newman (Glasgow): Runaways: Redefining Slavery in the British Atlantic World
Introduced by: Susanne Lachenicht (EEASA Chair)
10am-11.30am
Workshop 2: Protest and Slavery I
Chair: Tim Lockley (Warwick)
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Paris Diderot): The Evolution of a Sub-Genre in Antislavery Literature: The Colonization Plan as Exemplified in St George Tucker’s 1796 Antislavery Protest
Christa Dierksheide (Charlottesville): Proof of Amelioration? Antislavery and Proslavery Persuasion, 1780-1840
Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis (Lublin): Culinary Contact Zones in Antebellum Literature: Performing Racial Relations in Slave Narratives
11.30am-11.45am coffee break
11.45am-1.15pm
Workshop 3: Protest and Slavery II
Chair: Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec (Université de Sherbrooke)
Sarah Lentz (Bremen): German Abolitionists and their Involvement in the Atlantic Antislavery Movement around 1800
Tim Lockley (Warwick): ‘We cannot go to bed in safety’: Responses to a Slave Plot in South Carolina in 1816
Claire Bourhis-Mariotti (University Paris 8) : Haiti as Lieu de Mémoire of Black Nationalist Protest and Persuasion in the Antebellum Period: African-American Emigration to Haiti,1855-1862
1.15pm-2.15pm Lunch
2.15pm-4.15pm
Workshop 4: Protest in Literature, Theatre and the Arts
Chair: Zbigniew Mazur (Lublin)
Agnieszka Anna Ficek (New York): Double Visions of a Double Marriage: the Language of Propaganda and Protest in Matrimonio de don Martín García de Loyola con Ñusta Beatriz Clara Coya
Csaba Levai (Debrecen): Writing, Print, Speech and Performance in the Proper and the Wider Atlantic World: The Comparison of Sándor Farkas Bölöni’s “Journey in North America” and Alexis de Tocqueville’s
“Democracy in America”
William Coleman (London): Music, Partisanship and Cultural Politics in the Early Republic
2.15pm-4.15pm
Panel 2: The United Nations of the United States, or: The Origins and Progress of the American International Revolution, 1763-1820
Chair:Claire Bourhis-Mariotti (University Paris-Diderot)
Edward Gray (Florida): The Line: The Pennsylvania-Maryland Border in the Age of Mason and Dixon
Hannah Farber (Berkeley): National Goods: Establishing the American Identity of Commercial Property
Mark Peterson (Berkeley): Rethinking Federalism in the Early Republic:
Boston’s Congressmen and the Pursuit of Federative Politics
4.15pm-4.45pm coffee break
4.45pm-6.15pm
Workshop 5: Communication Strategies in the Early American Printed Matter
Chair: Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Paris Diderot)
Oliver Scheiding (Mainz): Material Forms of Communication in the Early Republican Protestant Press
Charlotte Lerg (Munich): Imagery of Protest: Performative Protest Culture in Political Cartoons of the British Atlantic 1760-1790
Anja-Maria Bassimir (Mainz/Münster) : Communicating Community through Images: The Use of Illustrations in 19th Century Methodist Periodicals
7pm-9.30pm Conference Reception
Saturday 13 December 2014
9-9.30am Meeting of EEASA Board
9.30am-11am
Workshop 6: Protest and Persuasion in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Chair: Lauric Henneton (Versailles-Saint Quentin)
Marie Basile McDaniel (Southern Connecticut): Protest and Persuasion in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania
Daniel Robinson (Cambridge): European Geo-Politics and the Role of the Pulpit in American Political Culture, c. 1739-1763
Thomas J. Humphrey (Cleveland): The Roots of Popular Protest: Dissent in a Trans-Atlantic Perspective
11am-11.15am coffee break
11.15am-12.45pm
Workshop 7: Protest and Persuasion in Colonial New England
Chair: Susanne Lachenicht (Bayreuth)
Lauric Henneton (Versailles-Saint-Quentin): ‘The most shameless and lying libel’: The East Indian Echoes of a North American Anglo-Dutch Dispute (1653)
Ann-Stephane Schaefer (Mainz): Reinventing the Tradition Principle: New England Puritans’. Rhetorical Strategies to Claim the Church Fathers for and against the Half-Way Covenant (1662)
Elena Volkova (Moscow): Ideological Controversies and Political Struggle in Colonial Massachusetts in the First Quarter of the 18th Century
Closing of the Conference
2pm-4pm Tour of Lublin