Programme of the first SAAH
Bayreuth
29 August – 3 September 2010

Funded by
EEASA
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
and the Professorinnenprogramm of the Free State of Bavaria

29 August
Arrival of participants

30 August
9.30
Opening

10.00
Keynote lecture:

Nicholas CANNY (Dublin/Galway): The Subject of Atlantic History

11.30-13.00
Workshop 1: International relations: Wars, Diplomacy and Imperial Competition I

Aaron K. SLATER, New York University
'Imperial Innovations: Political Culture, the Common Good, and the State at the Dawn of the British Empire, 1603-1660' (comment: Claudia SCHNURMANN (Hamburg))

Amanda Joyce SNYDER, Florida International University
'Piracy and Cromwell's Western Design' (comment: David L. SMITH (Cambridge))

14.00-16.00
Workshop 2: International relations: Wars, Diplomacy and Imperial Competition II

Justin DELLINGER, The University of Texas at Arlington
'A Provisional Partnership – Ambivalent Spanish Diplomacy in the Gulf Coast Region during the American War of Independence'. (comment: Lou ROPER, SUNY New Paltz)

31 August

9.00-10.00
Workshop 3: Trade and Commerce

Huw T. DAVID, Oxford University
'The Atlantic at Work: Britain's and South Carolina's Trading Networks' (comment: Ben MARSH (Stirling))

José GASCH TOMAS, European University Institute, Florence
'Material Culture and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Atlantic World. The Manila Galleons from New Spain to Castile (1580-1640)' (comment: Mark HÄBERLEIN (Bamberg))

10.30-12.00
Workshop 4: Atlantic Migrations

Andreas HUEBNER, Gießen University, Germany
'New Perspectives on Colonial Louisiana: Migration, Forced Migration, Creolization, and Slavery in Times of Global Crisis, 1720-1820' (comment: Trevor BURNARD (Warwick))

Elodie PEYROL-KLEIBER, Vincennes-Saint Denis, Université Paris VIII
'The Migration of Irish Indentured Servants to 17th Century Maryland and Virginia'. (comment: Nicholas CANNY (Dublin/Galway))

13.00-16.00
Projects' workshop
Presentation of new research projects of Trevor BURNARD, Ben MARSH, Sarah BARBER, Mark HÄBERLEIN, Claudia SCHNURMANN, Hermann WELLENREUTHER and Evan HAEFELI

1 September

9.00-11.00
Workshop 5 : Religious networks, dissent and tolerance

Charlotte CARRINGTON, Cambridge University
'An Atlantic Life: Reconsidering the ‘Lord of Misrule,’ Thomas Morton'. (comment: Lauric HENNETON (Versailles-St. Quentin))

Susanna Christine LINSLEY, University of Michigan
'Contending for Unity: the Politics of Religious Toleration in Early National Charleston and New York City' (Evan HAEFELI, Columbia Univ., New York))

2 September

10.00-12.00
Workshop 6: Colonialism(s) / Re-constructing Identities and Social Relations

Frank P. KELDERMAN, University of Michigan
'Early Barbados and Discourses of Trade, Acculturation, and Imperial Aspirations, 1627-1641' (comment: Sarah BARBER (Lancaster))

Jan HÜSGEN, Hannover University
'The abolition of Slavery in the Moravian Church' (comment: Hermann WELLENREUTHER (Göttingen))

13.00-16.00
Workshop 7: Projections and representations

Aglaia Maretta VENTERS, Tulane University, Louisiana
'Time to Murder and Create: The Failure of the French Utopian Designs for the Atlantic World'. (comment: Leslie CHOQUETTE (Assumption College, Worcester/Mass.))

Pedro MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA, Bayreuth University
'The (American) 'other' in Early Modern Europe: Travel Narratives and Alterity from the Late Middle Ages to the Age of the Discoveries' (comment: Tim LOCKLEY (Warwick))

Sünne JUTERCZENKA, Rostock University
'Encounters in Eden: Religious representations of cultural contacts in colonial North America' (comment: Susanne LACHENICHT (Bayreuth))

19.00-20.00
Keynote lecture:

Trevor BURNARD (Warwick): 'Expanding the Spatial Boundaries of Early America: Accounting for the rise of Atlantic and Continental History in the Writing of Early American History. '

3 September

9.30-12.30
General wrap up