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6th biannual conference of the European Early American Studies AssociationParis, France, December 8-10, 2016Space, Mobility, and Power in Early America and the Atlantic World, 1650-1850Conference Programme (click here to download as single PDF file)Thursday December 8, 20169 a.m.-10.45 a.m. – First morning sessionSalle des Thèses (580F)Circulations of Transatlantic ScienceChair: Irmina Wawrzyczek, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin                                            Kristen Block (The University of Tennessee-Knoxville), Water, Fluidity, and the Permeable Body: Creole Medical Dialogues in the Early Caribbean Juliane Braun (Universität Bonn, Germany), Imperial circuits of scientific knowledge: Pacific Exploration, Atlantic Slavery, and the Transplantation of the Breadfruit Tree Alice Marples (King's College London), The Mobility of Scholarly, Commercial and Colonial Knowledge in Atlantic Botanical NetworksRoom 574FEmpires at the marginsChair: Andrew O'Shaughnessy, International Jefferson Studies Center, Monticello James Dator (Goucher College), Imperial Indifference and Islander Culture in the Leeward Archipelago, c. 1650-1750 Garrett Fontenot (University of Notre Dame), French Louisiana’s 1768 Revolt Against the Spanish Empire Csaba Lévai (Debrecen University), Peoples, Commodities, and Culture in Negotiations Between the United States and the Habsburg Empire in the 1780s Samantha Seeley (University of Richmond), Managing Mobility and Making States in the Post-Revolutionary Northwest Territory11.15 a.m.-1 p.m. – Second morning sessionSalle des Thèses (580F)Circulations of racialized scienceChair: Will Slauter, Université Paris Diderot Susan Branson (Syracuse University), Phrenology and the Science of Race in Early America Marcel Hartwig, (Universität Siegen, Germany), A Web of Friends: Transnational Quaker Networks and the Pennsylvania Medical Library Tim Lockley (University of Warwick), Medicine, Race and the recruitment of slaves to serve in the British West India Regiments in the 1790sRoom 574FCirculations of Transatlantic religionChair: Susanne Lachenicht, Universität Bayreuth Lucia Bergamasco (Université d'Orléans), Transatlantic Evangelical Connections during the Second Great Awakening Christine Croxall (Washington University, St. Louis), Church and State Entwined in the Mississippi River Valley: Native Spaces, Catholic Missions, and the Chimera of Civilization in the Early Nineteenth Century Carla Gardina Pestana (UCLA), The Early Quakers, Religious Dispersion and Managing Mobility in the 17th century Atlantic 1 p.m.-2.15 p.m. – Lunch (for registered participants) and Book talkSalle des Thèses (580F) Marie-Jeanne Rossignol &#38; Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, eds., The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet (Brill, 2016)Room 574F Trevor Burnard, The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)2.15 p.m.-4 p.m. – Afternoon sessionSalle des Thèses (580F)The economics of empireChair: Pierre Gervais, Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle Cynthia Bouton (Texas A&#38;M University), Flour for pesos: the geopolitics and economics of provisioning the Leclerc Expedition to suppress the Revolution in Saint Domingue, 1801-1803 Ben Marsh (University of Kent), ‘Un Objet Considerable’: French Silk Schemes, Models, and Problems in America, c.1680-1740 Simon Middleton (University of Sheffield), Geopolitics, Colonial Sovereignty, and the Circulation of Paper Money in Early-Eighteenth Century New York Michael Zakim (Tel Aviv University), Importing the World's Fair: New York's Crystal Palace, 1853 Room 574FCulture at the marginsChair: Maurizio Valsania, Università degli studi di Torino Wayne K. Bodle (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), Ohiopiomingo, A ‘Real Enough’ Settlement on the Ohio Valley Frontier in the Revolutionary Atlantic World Diane Boucher (Clark University), Balancing Community, Opportunity, and Authority: Negotiating Power in Late Eighteenth-Century Colonial East Florida Lorelle Semley (College of the Holy Cross), Refuge and Redemption in a Nineteenth-Century Black BordeauxFriday December 9, 2016Université Paris DiderotHalle aux farines (Hall F)10 rue Françoise Dolto, 75013 ParisMaps and directions! (PDF)9 a.m.-10.45 a.m. – First morning sessionSalle des Thèses (580F)Local politics at Empire’s marginsChair: Lauric Henneton, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Gayle K. Brunelle (California State University, Fullerton), Parisian Knowledge versus Local Knowledge in French Guiana: The Case of the Compagnie de la Terre Ferme de l’Amérique, ou la France Equinoctialle, 1651-1655 Elizabeth Heijmans (Leiden University), French expansionism and Inter-Imperial Relations in the African Port City of Ouidah (Bight of Benin) during the first half of the 18th century Donald Johnson (North Dakota State University), Negotiating Space and Power in North American Port Cities at the End of the Revolutionary War Alexander Ponsen (University of Pennsylvania), Beyond Cores, Peripheries and Polycentricity: The Diffusion of Sovereignty in Paraguay and São Vicente, 1600-1750Room 574 FCirculating genderChair: Manuel Covo, University of California, Santa Barbara Debra Burnett (University of Glasgow), The Transgressors and Tawdry: The Transportation of Women Convicts to the British Colonies During the Eighteenth Century Leopold Lippert (Universität Salzburg), Transatlantic Bodies of Representation in Robert Hunter’s Androboros (1715) Nancy Christie (University of Western Ontario) and Michael Gauvreau (McMaster University, Canada), Contested Spaces of Law and Economy: Gendered Power within Merchant Networks in Quebec, 1760-1820 Room 575 F"Race", Revolutions, and mobility       Chair: Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, Université Paris 8-Vincennes St Denis Andy Cabot (Université Paris Diderot), « Au milieu de ces désastres dont les suites se feront sentir longtemps »: Saint-Domingue and Atlantic diplomacy, 1791-1794 Anna Mae Duane (University of Connecticut), Education, Colonization, and Black Futures in the Mid-Nineteenth John Pulis (Hofstra University), In the Belly of the Beast: George Liele, Moses Baker, and Black Loyalists in Jamaica10.45 a.m.- 11.15 a.m. – Coffee break11.15 a.m-1 p.m – Second morning sessionSalle des Thèses (580F)Mobile elitesChair: Zbigniew Mazur, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin Elodie Peyrol Kleiber (Université de Poitiers), An Elite Maryland Colonist, Planter, and Minister: Circulating the Pro-Slavery Gospel of Thomas Bacon Valérie Capdeville (Université Paris 13), Circulating the British Club Model in the Atlantic World: Mapping Spaces and Networks of power in the Eighteenth century Carolyn Eastman (Virginia Commonwealth University), The Transatlantic Celebrity of “Mr O.” Oratory and the Structures of Reputation in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain and AmericaRoom 574 FCommercingChair: Allan Potofsky, Université Paris Diderot Randi Flaherty (University of Virginia School of Law), Constructing Commercial Geographies to Compete in the Atlantic World, Boston and Salem in the Eighteenth Century Daniel Maudlin (University of Plymouth), The Tavern: Mobility, Built Space and Cultural Power on the Western Frontier in the Late Eighteenth-Century. Julie Svalastog (Leiden University), The Merging of the British East and West India Trading Companies in the Mid-Seventeenth Century Room 575 FImperial ControlsChair: Emma Hart, University of St Andrews Elizabeth Clay (University of Pennsylvania), From Empire’s Margins: Clove and Cacao Production in French Guiana, 1802-1848 Justin Roberts (Dalhousie University), A Swarm of People: Population Management and Migration Strategies in 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-Revolutionary Haiti 1 p.m.-2.15 p.m. – Lunch (for registered participants)  2.15 p.m.-4 p.m. – Afternoon sessionSalle des Thèses (580F)Perceptions of the Spaces of OthersChair: Joanne van der Woude, University of Groningen Iris De Rode (Université Paris 8-Vincennes St Denis), The ‘networks of influence’ of the Marquis François Jean de Chastellux, General and Philosopher at the End of the Eighteenth Century Carine Lounissi (Université de Rouen), An Empire for Liberty: Space and Republicanism in French Writings on the United States in Pre-Revolutionary France Yevan Terrien (University of Pittsburgh), Runaways, Deserters, and Wood Runners: The Regulation of Spatial Mobility in French Louisiana (ca. 1700-1760)Room  574 FWork and empireChair: Owen Stanwood, Boston College Anne-Claire Faucquez (Université Paris 8-Vincennes St Denis), Bound labor in colonial New York: Degrees of unfreedom in the Atlantic World Allison Madar (California State University, Chico), Degrees of Unfreedom: Convict Servitude, Indentured Servitude, Slavery and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Virginia Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan (Rutgers University), ‘No other claim than his poverty:’ Vagrancy, Slavery, and the Forced Transportation of Paupers in the Early Republic Mid-AtlanticRoom 575 FCirculating the seaChair: Bertrand van Ruymbeke, Université Paris 8-Vincennes St Denis Charles Foy (Eastern Illinois University), Mapping Liberty for Black Mariners in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Atlantic Chris Hodson (Brigham Young University), Rumford’s Progress: Nutrition and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic Julia Mansfield (Stanford), Antidote to Revolution: the Work of Quarantine in the Early United States&#160;Saturday December 10, 2016Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle5, rue de l’école de médecine, 75006 ParisMaps and directions! (PDF)8.30 a.m.-9 a.m. – Registration9 a.m.-10.45 a.m. – First morning sessionGrand AmphiBuilding imperial spacesChair: Max Edling, King’s College, London Arad Gigi (Florida State University), Building Empires: Constructing forts, space, and state in Martinique, 1664-1756 Mary Draper (University of Virginia), Creole Sensibilities, Metropolitan Oversight, and the Fortifications of the British Caribbean, c. 1650-1730 Jared Hardesty (Western Washington University), Builders of Empire: European Master Craftsmen and the Making of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Benjamin Fagan (Auburn University), Bounded Revolution: Geographies and Spaces of Black Resistance in John Gabriel Stedman’s Surinam Petit AmphiRefusing EnslavementChair: Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université Paris Marisa Fuentes (Rutgers-State University of New Jersey), The History of “Refuse Slaves” and the Spatialization of Death in Atlantic Port Cities in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Greg O'Malley (University of California, Santa Cruz), The Escapes of David George: Using Flight to Negotiate Ameliorations Under Slavery in Colonial British America Terri L. Snyder (California State University, Fullerton), Slavery, Antislavery, and Mobility in Early National District of Columbia: A Biographical Perspective Randy Sparks (Tulane) The Micro-Diplomacy of the Illegal Slave Trade: The Case of William HoustonRoom 33Narratives of OthersChair: Oliver Scheiding, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Monica Dominguez Torres (University of Delaware), Of Looted Treasures and Stolen Images: Depictions of the Pearl Trade in the Spanish Atlantic Edward Larkin (University of Delaware), Early American Imperial Temporalities Bethel Saler (Haverford College), “This damn’d Barbary business”: Islamic North African Regencies and the Fantastical Project of the Early American Republic Lydia ten Brummelhuis (University of Groningen), James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane (1764) and Agricultural Warfare in Early America Room 12Circulating politicsChair: Evelyne Payen, Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle Astrid Fellner (Universität des Saarlandes), Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: The Mobility of the Querelle des Femmes in the Atlantic World John Funchion (University of Miami), Radical Correspondences: Transatlantic Writing against the Law in London, Paris, and the United States in the Late Eighteenth Century Steven Sarson (Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3), “To resume their original liberty”: The Glorious Revolution and the Contested Sources of Sovereignty and Power in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1689-1776 Allison Stagg (John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität), The Movement of Visual Satire: a case study on the circulation of popular political caricatures in the early Republic10.45 a.m.- 11.15 a.m. – Break11.15 a.m.-1 p.m. – Second morning sessionGrand AmphiPower and EmpireChair: Trevor Burnard, University of Melbourne Alyssa Reichardt (Yale), The Limits of Empire: French and British Geographic Knowledge and Proposals for a North American Neutral Zone, 1754-1756 Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire), War in a Time of Peace: European Treaty-Making and the Scramble for America, 1713-1763 Patrick Griffin (University of Notre Dame), Painting Empire: British Provincials and Imagining Empire after 1763 Peter Thompson (Oxford), Empires of Liberty, Empires of Power in Haiti and the United StatesPetit AmphiNative agenciesChair: Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania Heather Kopelson (University of Alabama), Circulating Incomprehension: Sights and Sounds of Wondrous Bodies in Early Modern European Accounts of the Americas Augustin Habran (Université Paris Diderot), The Antebellum Indian Territory: A Southern Native “colony” in the West? (1830-1850) Kristofer Ray (Dartmouth College), Cherokees, Indigenous Mobility, and the British Empire in the Ohio Valley, 1715-1774 Bryan Rindfleisch (Marquette University), “The Owner of the Town Ground”: Escotchaby of Coweta and the Politics of Intimacy in the Native South, Imperial America, and the Atlantic World, 1740-1780Room 33Religions in fluxChair: Auréliane Narvaez, Université Paris 4-Paris Sorbonne Isabelle Sicard (Université Paris Diderot), Religious disestablishment in Massachusetts: a major victory of the periphery after decades of Boston hegemony Thomas Richards (McNeil Center/Temple University), Reincarnating the Atlantic World: New England Merchants and Missionaries on the Pacific, 1820-1846 Sharon E. Wood (University of Nebraska at Omaha), Mobility, Claims-Making, and Brotherhood: A Family Across the Color Line in the Early Nineteenth Century United States1 p.m. – End of Conference