Thursday, October 6
5:00PM to 5:30PM
Registration
5:30PM to 5:45PM
Welcome, Cathy Matson, PEAES Director
Introduction of Keynote, Brian Schoen
5:45PM to 6:45PM
Keynote address, John Larson, Purdue University
Interesting Unions: Matson and Onuf, Money and Power, Liberty and Lust
Audience discussion
6:45PM to 7:30PM
Reception
Friday, October 7
9:00AM to 9:30AM
Registration and Refreshments
9:30AM to 12:30AM
Economic Interests and Ideology in the New Nation: The 1780s
Chair: Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University-Camden
Tamara Plakins Thornton, State University of New York at Buffalo
Global Trade, Enlightenment Science, and Cosmopolitan Knowledge in Late Eighteenth-Century America
Andrew Fagal, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
State Power and Private Interest: The Challenge of Mobilization Policy in the Critical Period
Rick Demirjian, Rutgers University-Camden
An Interest in Union: Constitutional Settlements and the Economies of Secondary Seaports
Comments:
Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University-Camden
Christopher Clark, University of Connecticut
Audience
12:30PM to 2:30PM
Lunch on your own
2:30PM to 4:00PM
Incorporating a New Economy
Chair: Brian Schoen, Ohio University
Brian Murphy, Baruch College and City University of New York Honors College
The New Republic’s Reluctant Reliance on Corporate Power
Gautham Rao, American University
The Statist Turn: Law, Regulation, and Capitalism in the Early American Republic
Comment: Brian Schoen
Audience
4:00PM to 4:30PM
Refreshments
4:30PM to 6:00PM
Commercial Crisis and Development
Chair: Jessica Lepler, University of New Hampshire
Sharon Ann Murphy, Providence College
A Divergence of Interests: When Banks Fail
Ariel Ron, Southern Methodist University
The Creation of an Independent Agricultural Press in the 1830s
Comment: Jessica Lepler
Audience