On Edge: New Frontiers in Atlantic History
University of Southampton, UK
Thursday, 30 June-Friday, 1 July, 2016
All panels will take place in the John Roberts Room, Building 38, Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
Thursday, 30 June
3:00pm - Welcome and coffee
3:15-4:45pm Panel 1: By Land and By Sea: Historiographies of Borders and Crossings
Jessica Choppin Roney, Temple University, ‘Landlocked: The North American Interior in Atlantic History’
Rachel Herrmann, University of Southampton, ‘Atlantic History from the Waterline: Hinterlands, Coasts, and Maritime Frontiers’
5-6:30pm – Plenary Address
Andrew Lipman, Barnard College, Columbia University, ‘Facing East from Indigenous Waters, Or, Why You Can’t Teach Global History without American Indians’
7:00pm - Dinner (optional, cash dinner)
Friday, 1 July
Coffee
8:30-10:00am Panel 2: Sound, Salt, and Slave Societies
Michael Bennett, University of Kent, ‘Forced labour in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans c. 1660-1730’
Kimberley Thomas, Warwick University, ‘In search of “white gold”: Negotiating space and mobility on the ‘salt islands’ of the British Caribbean, c. 1680s-1810s’
Linda Sturtz, Macalaster College, ‘“Whilst this racket continued”: Soundscapes of Festivity and Their Temporal Boundaries in Early Modern Jamaica’
Break
10:15am-12:45pm Panel 3: Manipulating and Disputing Borders
Andrew Murphy, Rutgers University, ‘Beyond Baltimore: Borders, Boundaries, and William Penn’s American Struggles’
Travis Glasson, Temple University, ‘Crossing Borders as Opting Out: Mobility and Ambivalence During the American Revolution’
Linda Salvucci, Trinity University, San Antonio, ‘Manipulating Boundaries of Empire, Economy, and Religion: The Shifting Atlantic Worlds of John Leamy, 1760-1839’
12:45-1:45pm - Lunch
1:45-3:15pm Panel 4: Reimagining Native Grounds
Holly Rine, LeMoyne College, ‘The Urban Frontier: Re-imagining Colonial Cities as “Indian Territory”’
Alexandra Montgomery, University of Pennsylvania, ‘The River Belongs Exclusively to the Passamaquoddy Tribe: Negotiating Boundaries in the Eighteenth Century Gulf of Maine World’
Robert Lee, University of California, Berkeley, ‘“Driven across the troubled water”: Indigenous Invasion in the Lower Missouri River Valley’
Break
3:30-5:00pm Panel 5: Imperial Contests on the Ground
James Robertson, University of the West Indies, Mona, ‘Strategic boundaries during the prolonged English campaign to hold Jamaica and their legacies’
Vanessa Mongey, Newcastle University, ‘The Gulf of Honduras as a frontier between imperialism and revolution’
Matthew Ward, University of Dundee, ‘Bounding Land, Binding Men: Speculators, Squatters and Native Americans in the Trans-Appalachian West 1754-1814’
5:00-5:30pm Discussion: New Frontiers in Atlantic History?