6thbiannualconferenceoftheEuropeanEarlyAmericanStudiesAssociation

Paris,France,December8-10,2016

Space, Mobility, and Power in Early America

and the Atlantic World, 1650-1850

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6thbiannualconferenceoftheEuropeanEarlyAmericanStudiesAssociation

Space, Mobility, and Power in Early America and the Atlantic World, 1650-1850

Paris,France,December8-10,2016

ConferenceProgrammeThursdayDecember8,2016UniversitéParisDiderotHalleauxfarines(HallF)10rueFrançoiseDolto,75013Paris 8.30a.m.-2.15p.m.–Registration9.00-10.45a.m.–FirstmorningsessionSalledesThèses(580F)CirculationsofTransatlanticScienceChair:IrminaWawrzyczek,MariaCurie-SklodowskaUniversity,Lublin • FriederikeBaer(PennStateAbingtonCollege),Soldiers,Explorers,Scientists,TravelWriters:Soldiersandthe

ProductionofKnowledgeintheAtlanticWorld• KristenBlock(TheUniversityofTennessee-Knoxville),Water,Fluidity,andthePermeableBody:CreoleMedical

DialoguesintheEarlyCaribbean• Juliane Braun (Universität Bonn, Germany), Imperial circuits of scientific knowledge: Pacific Exploration,

AtlanticSlavery,andtheTransplantationoftheBreadfruitTree• Alice Marples (King's College London), The Mobility of Scholarly, Commercial and Colonial Knowledge in

AtlanticBotanicalNetworksRoom574FCirculationsofTransatlanticreligionChair:SusanneLachenicht,UniversitätBayreuth • Lucia Bergamasco (Université d'Orléans), Transatlantic Evangelical Connections during the Second Great

Awakening• ChristineCroxall(WashingtonUniversity,St.Louis),ChurchandStateEntwinedintheMississippiRiverValley:

NativeSpaces,CatholicMissions,andtheChimeraofCivilizationintheEarlyNineteenthCentury• Carla Gardina Pestana (UCLA), The Early Quakers, Religious Dispersion andManagingMobility in the 17th

centuryAtlantic• KyleRoberts(LoyolaUniversity,Chicago),Jesuitsandstate-buildingintheantebellumUnitedStatesandthe

AtlanticCatholicworld.10.45-11.15a.m.–CoffeebreakSalledesThèses(580F)

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11.15a.m.-1.00p.m.–SecondmorningsessionSalledesThèses(580F)CirculationsofracializedscienceChair:WillSlauter,UniversitéParisDiderot • SusanBranson(SyracuseUniversity),PhrenologyandtheScienceofRaceinEarlyAmerica• Marcel Hartwig, (Universität Siegen, Germany), A Web of Friends: Transnational Quaker Networks and the

PennsylvaniaMedicalLibrary• RyanKashanipour(NorthernArizonaUniversity),BetweenMagicandMedicine:HealinginLate-ColonialYucatán• TimLockley(UniversityofWarwick),Medicine,Raceandtherecruitmentofslavestoserve intheBritishWest

IndiaRegimentsinthe1790sRoom574FEmpiresatthemargins Chair:AndrewO'Shaughnessy,InternationalJeffersonStudiesCenter,Monticello• JamesDator(GoucherCollege),ImperialIndifferenceandIslanderCultureintheLeewardArchipelago,c.1650-

1750• GarrettFontenot(UniversityofNotreDame),FrenchLouisiana’s1768RevoltAgainsttheSpanishEmpire• CsabaLévai(DebrecenUniversity),Peoples,Commodities,andCultureinNegotiationsBetweentheUnitedStates

andtheHabsburgEmpireinthe1780s• Samantha Seeley (University of Richmond),ManagingMobility andMaking States in the Post-Revolutionary

NorthwestTerritory1.00-2.15p.m.–LunchandBooktalkSalledesThèses(580F)• Marie-JeanneRossignol&BertrandVanRuymbeke,eds.,TheAtlanticWorldofAnthonyBenezet(Brill,2016)• Trevor Burnard, The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica

(UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress,2016)2.15-4p.m.–AfternoonsessionSalledesThèses(580F)TheeconomicsofempireChair:PierreGervais,UniversitéParis3-SorbonneNouvelle • CynthiaBouton(TexasA&MUniversity),Flourforpesos:thegeopoliticsandeconomicsofprovisioningtheLeclerc

ExpeditiontosuppresstheRevolutioninSaintDomingue,1801-1803• BenMarsh(UniversityofKent),‘UnObjetConsiderable’:FrenchSilkSchemes,Models,andProblemsinAmerica,

c.1680-1740• SimonMiddleton(UniversityofSheffield),Geopolitics,ColonialSovereignty,andtheCirculationofPaperMoney

inEarly-EighteenthCenturyNewYork• MichaelZakim(TelAvivUniversity),ImportingtheWorld'sFair:NewYork'sCrystalPalace,1853Room574FCultureatthemarginsChair:MaurizioValsania,UniversitàdeglistudidiTorino • Wayne K. Bodle (IndianaUniversity of Pennsylvania),Ohiopiomingo, A ‘Real Enough’ Settlement on theOhio

ValleyFrontierintheRevolutionaryAtlanticWorld• DianeBoucher(ClarkUniversity),BalancingCommunity,Opportunity,andAuthority:NegotiatingPowerinLate

Eighteenth-CenturyColonialEastFlorida• Elena Furlanetto (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), “So that Ever After he is Called a Renegado”:

ConversionAnxietyandtheRenegadeinBarbaryCaptivityNarratives• LorelleSemley(CollegeoftheHolyCross),RefugeandRedemptioninaNineteenth-CenturyBlackBordeaux

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4.00-5p.m.–BreakToallowtimefortravelingbetweenthetwovenues,theconferencescheduleincludesaone-hourbreakbetweentheafternoonsessionandtheplenarytalk.CitéUniversitaire,FondationdesEtats-Unis,“GrandSalon”,15boulevardJourdan,75014Parishttp://www.ciup.fr/fondation-etats-unis/5.00-5.15p.m.IrminaWawrzyczek,PresidentofEEASA,andtheorganizers:OpeningoftheConference5.15-6.15p.m.AdaFerrer,NewYorkUniversity:“HavanainaWorldofWar,Revolution,andEmpire.”6.15-8.00p.m.–ReceptionFridayDecember9,2016UniversitéParisDiderotHalleauxfarines(HallF)10rueFrançoiseDolto,75013Paris8.30a.m.-2.15p.m.–Registration9.00-10.45a.m.–FirstmorningsessionSalledesThèses(580F)LocalpoliticsatEmpire’smarginsChair:LauricHenneton,UniversitédeVersailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines• GayleK.Brunelle(CaliforniaStateUniversity,Fullerton),ParisianKnowledgeversusLocalKnowledgeinFrench

Guiana:TheCaseoftheCompagniedelaTerreFermedel’Amérique,oulaFranceEquinoctialle,1651-1655• ElizabethHeijmans(LeidenUniversity),FrenchexpansionismandInter-ImperialRelationsintheAfricanPortCity

ofOuidah(BightofBenin)duringthefirsthalfofthe18thcentury• DonaldJohnson(NorthDakotaStateUniversity),NegotiatingSpaceandPowerinNorthAmericanPortCitiesat

theEndoftheRevolutionaryWar• Alexander Ponsen (University of Pennsylvania),BeyondCores, Peripheries and Polycentricity: TheDiffusion of

SovereigntyinParaguayandSãoVicente,1600-1750Room574FCirculatinggenderChair:ManuelCovo,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara • Debra Jane Burnett (University of Glasgow), The Transgressors and Tawdry: The Transportation of Women

ConvictstotheBritishColoniesDuringtheEighteenthCentury• Leopold Lippert (Universität Salzburg), Transatlantic Bodies of Representation in Robert Hunter’s Androboros

(1715)• SarahPearsall(CambridgeUniversity),Polygamy,Travel,andPowerintheEarlyModernAtlantic

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Room575F"Race",Revolutions,andmobility Chair:ClaireBourhis-Mariotti,UniversitéParis8-VincennesStDenis• AndyCabot(UniversitéParisDiderot),«Aumilieudecesdésastresdontlessuitesseferontsentirlongtemps»:

Saint-DomingueandAtlanticdiplomacy,1791-1794• ThierryDrapeau(UniversityatBuffalo-SUNY),The“WesternWave”of1848-49:ReconsideringtheUnderground

RailroadintheAtlanticAgeofRevolution• AnnaMaeDuane(UniversityofConnecticut),Education,Colonization,andBlackFuturesintheMid-Nineteenth

Century• KamiekaMurphy(CollegeofCharleston)andJohnPulis(HofstraUniversity),IntheBellyoftheBeast:GeorgeLiele,

MosesBaker,andBlackLoyalistsinJamaica10.45-11.15a.m.–CoffeebreakSalledesThèses(580F)11.15a.m-1.00p.m–SecondmorningsessionSalledesThèses(580F)Mobileelites Chair:ZbigniewMazur,MariaCurie-SklodowskaUniversity,Lublin• ElodiePeyrolKleiber(UniversitédePoitiers),AnEliteMarylandColonist,Planter,andMinister:Circulatingthe

Pro-SlaveryGospelofThomasBacon• ValérieCapdeville(UniversitéParis13),CirculatingtheBritishClubModelintheAtlanticWorld:MappingSpaces

andNetworksofpowerintheEighteenthcentury• CarolynEastman(VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity),TheTransatlanticCelebrityof“MrO.” Oratoryandthe

StructuresofReputationinEarlyNineteenth-CenturyBritainandAmerica• ChrisHodson(BrighamYoungUniversity),Rumford’sProgress:NutritionandPowerintheRevolutionaryAtlanticRoom574FCommercing Chair:AllanPotofsky,UniversitéParisDiderot• NancyChristie(UniversityofWesternOntario)andMichaelGauvreau(McMasterUniversity,Canada),Contested

SpacesofLawandEconomy:GenderedPowerwithinMerchantNetworksinQuebec,1760-1820• RandiFlaherty(UniversityofVirginiaSchoolofLaw),ConstructingCommercialGeographiestoCompete inthe

AtlanticWorld,BostonandSalemintheEighteenthCentury • DanielMaudlin(UniversityofPlymouth),TheTavern:Mobility,BuiltSpaceandCulturalPowerontheWestern

FrontierintheLateEighteenth-Century.• JulieSvalastog(LeidenUniversity),TheMergingoftheBritishEastandWestIndiaTradingCompaniesintheMid-

SeventeenthCenturyRoom575FImperialControlsChair:EmmaHart,UniversityofStAndrews • ElizabethClay(UniversityofPennsylvania),FromEmpire’sMargins:CloveandCacaoProductioninFrenchGuiana,

1802-1848• JustinRoberts(DalhousieUniversity),ASwarmofPeople:PopulationManagementandMigrationStrategiesin

Barbados,1645-1670• Deborah Rosen (Lafayette College), Borders, Migrations, and Power in Southeastern North America and the

Caribbean,1700-1820• Winter Rae Schneider (UCLA), La Dette de l'Indépendance: Property, Indemnity and Sovereignty in Post-

RevolutionaryHaiti

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1.00-2.15p.m.–LunchLunchHall,MargueriteDuras2.15-4.00p.m.–AfternoonsessionSalledesThèses(580F)PerceptionsoftheSpacesofOthersChair:JoannevanderWoude,UniversityofGroningen • IrisDeRode(UniversitéParis8-VincennesStDenis),The‘networksofinfluence’oftheMarquisFrançoisJeande

Chastellux,GeneralandPhilosopherattheEndoftheEighteenthCentury• AllanGreer(McGillUniversity),SpacesofProperty:SurveyinginEarlyColonialNorthAmerica• CarineLounissi(UniversitédeRouen),AnEmpireforLiberty:SpaceandRepublicanisminFrenchWritingsonthe

UnitedStatesinPre-RevolutionaryFranceRoom574FWorkandempire Chair:OwenStanwood,BostonCollege• Anne-Claire Faucquez (Université Paris 8-Vincennes St Denis), Bound labor in colonial New York: Degrees of

unfreedomintheAtlanticWorld• AllisonMadar(CaliforniaStateUniversity,Chico),DegreesofUnfreedom:ConvictServitude,IndenturedServitude,

SlaveryandtheLawinEighteenth-CenturyVirginia• KristinO'Brassill-Kulfan(RutgersUniversity),‘Nootherclaimthanhispoverty:’Vagrancy,Slavery,andtheForced

TransportationofPaupersintheEarlyRepublicMid-Atlantic• Yevan Terrien (University of Pittsburgh), Runaways, Deserters, andWood Runners: The Regulation of Spatial

MobilityinFrenchLouisiana(ca.1700-1760)Room575FCirculatingtheseaChair:BertrandvanRuymbeke,UniversitéParis8-VincennesStDenis • EdwardCahill(FordhamUniversity),Piracy,Virtue,andUpwardMobilityintheAnglophoneAtlantic• JohnDonoghue(LoyolaUniversityChicago),LeviathanUnbound:Piracy,Capital,andAtlanticSpaceintheMaking

ofModernSovereignty• Charles Foy (Eastern IllinoisUniversity),Mapping Liberty for BlackMariners in the Eighteenth-CenturyAnglo-

AmericanAtlantic• JuliaMansfield(Stanford),AntidotetoRevolution:theWorkofQuarantineintheEarlyUnitedStates4.00-5p.m.–BreakToallowtimefortravelingbetweenthetwovenues,theconferencescheduleincludesaone-hourbreakbetweentheafternoonsessionandtheplenarytalk.CitéUniversitaire,FondationdesEtats-Unis,“GrandSalon”,15boulevardJourdan,75014Parishttp://www.ciup.fr/fondation-etats-unis/5.15-6.15p.m.DanielK.Richter,McNeilCenterforEarlyAmericanStudies,UniversityofPennsylvania:“SpaceandPowerinEngland’sRestorationAtlanticEmpire.”6.15-8.00p.m.–Reception

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SaturdayDecember10,2016UniversitéParis3-SorbonneNouvelle5,ruedel’écoledemédecine,75006Paris8.30-09.00a.m.–Registration9.00-10.45a.m.–FirstmorningsessionGrandAmphiBuildingimperialspacesChair:MaxEdling,King’sCollege,London • AradGigi(FloridaStateUniversity),BuildingEmpires:Constructingforts,space,andstateinMartinique,1664-

1756• MaryDraper (UniversityofVirginia),Creole Sensibilities,MetropolitanOversight, and the Fortificationsof the

BritishCaribbean,c.1650-1730• JaredHardesty(WesternWashingtonUniversity),BuildersofEmpire:EuropeanMasterCraftsmenandtheMaking

oftheEighteenth-CenturyAtlanticWorld• BenjaminFagan(AuburnUniversity),BoundedRevolution:GeographiesandSpacesofBlackResistanceinJohn

GabrielStedman’sSurinam

PetitAmphiRefusingEnslavement Chair:Marie-JeanneRossignol,UniversitéParisDiderot• MarisaFuentes(Rutgers-StateUniversityofNewJersey),TheHistoryof“RefuseSlaves”andtheSpatializationof

DeathinAtlanticPortCitiesintheLateSeventeenthandEighteenthCenturies• GregO'Malley (University of California, Santa Cruz), The Escapes of David George: Using Flight to Negotiate

AmeliorationsUnderSlaveryinColonialBritishAmerica• TerriL.Snyder(CaliforniaStateUniversity,Fullerton),Slavery,Antislavery,andMobilityinEarlyNationalDistrict

ofColumbia:ABiographicalPerspective• RandySparks(Tulane)TheMicro-DiplomacyoftheIllegalSlaveTrade:TheCaseofWilliamHoustonRoom16NarrativesofOthersChair:OliverScheiding,JohannesGutenbergUniversityMainz • MonicaDominguezTorres (UniversityofDelaware),OfLootedTreasuresandStolen Images:Depictionsof the

PearlTradeintheSpanishAtlantic• EdwardLarkin(UniversityofDelaware),EarlyAmericanImperialTemporalities• Bethel Saler (Haverford College), “This damn’d Barbary business”: Islamic North African Regencies and the

FantasticalProjectoftheEarlyAmericanRepublic• Lydia ten Brummelhuis (University of Groningen), James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane (1764) and Agricultural

WarfareinEarlyAmericaRoom12CirculatingpoliticsChair:EvelynePayen,UniversitéParis3-SorbonneNouvelle • AstridFellner(UniversitätdesSaarlandes),WomanDefamedandWomanDefended:TheMobilityoftheQuerelle

desFemmesintheAtlanticWorld• JohnFunchion(UniversityofMiami),RadicalCorrespondences:TransatlanticWritingagainsttheLawinLondon,

Paris,andtheUnitedStatesintheLateEighteenthCentury• StevenSarson(UniversitéJeanMoulin-Lyon3),“Toresumetheiroriginalliberty”:TheGloriousRevolutionandthe

ContestedSourcesofSovereigntyandPowerintheAnglo-AtlanticWorld,1689-1776• AllisonStagg(JohnF.KennedyInstituteforNorthAmericanStudies,FreieUniversität),TheMovementofVisual

Satire:acasestudyonthecirculationofpopularpoliticalcaricaturesintheearlyRepublic

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10.45-11.15a.m.–CoffeebreakPetitAmphi11.15a.m.-1.00p.m.–SecondmorningsessionGrandAmphiPowerandEmpire Chair:TrevorBurnard,UniversityofMelbourne• AlyssaReichardt(Yale),TheLimitsofEmpire:FrenchandBritishGeographicKnowledgeandProposalsforaNorth

AmericanNeutralZone,1754-1756• EligaGould(UniversityofNewHampshire),WarinaTimeofPeace:EuropeanTreaty-MakingandtheScramble

forAmerica,1713-1763• PatrickGriffin(UniversityofNotreDame),PaintingEmpire:BritishProvincialsandImaginingEmpireafter1763• PeterThompson(Oxford),EmpiresofLiberty,EmpiresofPowerinHaitiandtheUnitedStatesPetitAmphiNativeagenciesChair:DanielK.Richter,McNeilCenterforEarlyAmericanStudies,UniversityofPennsylvania • HeatherKopelson(UniversityofAlabama),CirculatingIncomprehension:SightsandSoundsofWondrousBodies

inEarlyModernEuropeanAccountsoftheAmericas• AugustinHabran(UniversitéParisDiderot),TheAntebellumIndianTerritory:ASouthernNative“colony”inthe

West?(1830-1850)• KristoferRay (DartmouthCollege),Cherokees, IndigenousMobility, and theBritish Empire in theOhioValley,

1715-1774• BryanRindfleisch(MarquetteUniversity),“TheOwneroftheTownGround”:EscotchabyofCowetaandthePolitics

ofIntimacyintheNativeSouth,ImperialAmerica,andtheAtlanticWorld,1740-1780Room16ReligionsinfluxChair:AurélianeNarvaez,UniversitéParis4-ParisSorbonne • Isabelle Sicard (Université Paris Diderot), Religious Disestablishment in Massachusetts: Overcoming Boston’s

DenominationalHegemonyintheLateEighteenthandEarlyNineteenthCentury.• ThomasRichards(McNeilCenter/TempleUniversity),ReincarnatingtheAtlanticWorld:NewEnglandMerchants

andMissionariesonthePacific,1820-1846• SharonE.Wood(UniversityofNebraskaatOmaha),Mobility,Claims-Making,andBrotherhood:AFamilyAcross

theColorLineintheEarlyNineteenthCenturyUnitedStates1.00p.m.–EndofConference

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UniversitéParisDiderotHalleauxFarines,HallF10rueFrançoiseDolto(or9esplanadePierreVidal-Naquet)75013ParisMetrostation:BibliothèqueFrançoisMitterrand(line14)Tramwaystation:PortedeFrance(lineT3a).Busstation:BibliothèqueRueMann(line62or89)

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FondationdesÉtats-Unis15BoulevardJourdan75014ParisTrainstation:CitéUniversitaire(RERB)Tramwaystation:CitéUniversitaire(lineT3a)Busstation:PortedeGentilly(line21or67)

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UniversitéSorbonneNouvelle-Paris35Ruedel'ÉcoledeMédecine75005ParisMetrostation:Cluny–LaSorbonne(line10)Busstations:Cluny(line63,86or87)

Scientificcommittee:SusanneLachenicht(UniversitätBayreuth),EmmaHart(UniversityofStAndrews),AllanPotofsky(UniversitéParisDiderot),DanielK.Richter(McNeilCenterforEarlyAmericanStudies,UniversityofPennsylvania)OliverScheiding(JohannesGutenbergUniversityMainz),IrminaWawrzyczek(MariaCurie-SklodowskaUniversity,Lublin),BertrandVanRuymbeke(UniversitéParis8-Vincennes-StDenis,InstitutUniversitairedeFrance).Organizingcommittee:Claire Bourhis-Mariotti (Université Paris 8-Vincennes-St Denis), Pierre Gervais (Université SorbonneNouvelle-Paris 3), Rahma Jehrad (Université de Carthage), Auréliane Narvaez (Université Paris 4-ParisSorbonne),EvelynePayen(UniversitéSorbonneNouvelle-Paris3),Marie-JeanneRossignol(UniversitéParisDiderot),WilliamSlauter(UniversitéParisDiderot,InstitutUniversitairedeFrance).This conference is sponsored by numerous supporting organizations including regional authorities,learnedsocieties,researchnetworksanduniversities: