FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2013:

9:00 am – 9:30 am, Central Library Sixth Floor: Registration

9:30 am – 11:30 am, Central Library, Sixth Floor: Welcome: Beth S. Wright, Dean of The College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Arlington
PANEL 1: THE ATLANTIC SYSTEM OF SLAVERY
Commentator: John D. Garrigus, PhD, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

- Neal D. Polhemus, University of South Carolina, USA, “‘The Right Sort of Negroes:’ Managing the Contours of the Eighteenth-century British Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”

- Sean Morey Smith, University of Houston, USA, “The Medicine of Slave Seasoning: Environment, Slavery, and Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic”

- Michael Aytenfisu, University of Alberta, Canada, “The Slave Ship’s Agency in Slave Seasoning”

11:30 am – 12:30 pm, Central Library, Sixth Floor, Atrium: Private Lunch

12:30 pm – 2:15 pm, Central Library, Sixth Floor: PANEL 2: INDIGENEITY IN THE IMPERIAL PERIPHERY
Commentator: Alexander Hidalgo, PhD, Texas Christian University, USA

- Amanda Kenney, University of Missouri, USA, “Encoding Authority: Negotiating the Uses of Khipu in Colonial Peru”

- Antje Dieterich, Institute for Latin American Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany, “The Construction of Indigeneity in Urban Spaces – Local Adaption of a Global Idea?”

- Robert Caldwell, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA, “Exploring Choctaw-Apache Territoriality along the Louisiana-Texas Borderlands”

Thirty-Minute Coffee Break

2:45 pm – 4:30 pm, Central Library, Sixth Floor: PANEL 3: NEGOTIATING POWER DYNAMICS
Commentators: Patrick Babiracki, PhD, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA and Pawel Goral, PhD, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

- G.H. Joost Baarssen, TU Dortmund University, Germany, “‘Sucking on America’s Tit:’ Metaphorical Dimensions of the Family in Conservative American Discourses on Europe”

- David M. Watry, PhD, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA, “Economic Brinksmanship: The Fall of Anthony Eden”

- Thomas Blake Earle, Rice University, USA, “Natural Enemies: Environmental Crises and Diplomatic Disputes in the Northwest Atlantic”

- Gabriel Schimmeroth, Free University of Berlin, Germany, “Transatlantic Concepts for the Third World: The Nestlé Powdered-milk-debate in the 1970s and 1980s as Catalyst for Western Concepts of Consumer Identity, Motherhood and Paths to Development”

5:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Blaze’s, College Park District: Private Reception

8:30 pm – 10:30 pm, College Park Center, Hospitality Suite:

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
- Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, PhD, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, “Hybrid Atlantics”

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2013
(There are two parallel panels at 10:00 am – 12:00 pm and at 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm)

10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Planetarium, Executive Conference Room, Third Floor: PANEL 4: MOBILE BUREAUCRATS, MOBILE LABORERS
Commentator: Stanley Palmer, PhD, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

- André Luiz Lanza, M.Phil., Universidade de São Paulo (PROLAM), Brazil and Maria Lúcia Lamounier, PhD, Universidade de São Paulo (FEA/RP), Brazil, “Immigrants for the Industry: The Case of Brazil and Argentina in the Period of 1870 to 1930”

- Theodore Rose, University of Chicago, USA, “Human Rights Redemption as Problem of Labor Mobility on the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic”

- Adolfo Polo y La Borda, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, “The Connected Worlds of the Spanish Royal Officials: Imperial Mobility, Cosmopolitanism, and the Making of the Spanish Empire”

10:00 am – 12:00 pm, College of Engineering, Nedderman Hall 601 (Rady Room): PANEL 5: IMPERIAL SPACES IN THE SPANISH ATLANTIC
Commentator: David LaFevor, PhD, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

- Eric J. McDonald, University of Houston, USA, “El Dorado and the Atlantic World: Transnational Space in Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Guiana”

- María Juliana Gandini, Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Museo Etnográfico “J. B. Ambrosetti”), Argentina, “Fuerzas locales, espacios atlánticos, horizontes globales: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca conectando mundos”

- Robert Ojeda Pérez, Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia, “Enseñanza de la Historia trasatlántica del siglo XVIII en la educación secundaria. Relato de un Naufragio y El Taller del Conquistador”

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, Restaurants located at College Park District: Lunch

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Planetarium, Executive Conference Room, Third Floor: PANEL 6: ENTANGLED REVOLUTIONS
Commentator: Lester Langley, PhD, University of Georgia, USA (professor emeritus)

- Pablo Martínez, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, “Atlantic or ‘Iberian’?: Marginal Notes about Competing Views on Spanish American Revolutions”

- Ross Michael Nedervelt, Florida International University, USA, “Chaos at Home, Chaos Abroad: The American Revolution's Impact on Bahamian Colonial Politics”

- Nicole Léopoldie, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA, “‘Vivre français ou mourir’: The Transfer of the French Revolutionary Question to Saint Domingue, 1789-1794”

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, College of Engineering, Nedderman Hall 601 (Rady Room): PANEL 7: LEISURE CLASS AND TRAVEL
Commentator: Thomas Adam, PhD, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

- Katharina Beiergrößlein, Stadtarchiv Stuttgart, Germany, “Fact or Fiction? Die Amerikareise der Eberhardine Christiane Lotter (1786/87)”

- Tao Wei, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA, “‘This Voyage to London Should Polish Me and Make Me Quite Polite:’ Metropole, Colony and the Colonial Encounters of Henry Laurens in the British Atlantic World, 1744-1765”

- William B. Roka, Independent Researcher, USA, “Building the Titanic for Mr. Morgan: How the Rise of the American Economy in the Early Twentieth Century Created a Travelling High Society that Spurred the Development of the North Atlantic Superliner”

Thirty-Minute Coffee Break

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm, Planetarium, Executive Conference Room, Third Floor: PANEL 8: CIRCULATING IMPRESSIONS/EXPRESSIONS
Commentator: Oliver Bateman, PhD, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

- Robert Whitaker, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, “The Joyriders: The International Police Conference and Transatlantic Policing, 1922-1938”

- Lesley Wolff, Florida State University, USA, “Shango’s Ballet: Diasporic Consciousness in Stormy Weather”