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Making a Republic Imperial: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania March 28-29, 2019

THURSDAY, MARCH 28

All sessions at the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia

 

9:00–9:45AM             Registration & Coffee

9:45–10:00AM           Welcome

Cathy Matson, PEAES and University of Delaware

Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center and University of Pennsylvania

10:00–11:30AM         Indigenous Sovereignty and the Ambitions of U.S. Empire

Chair: Michael Blaakman, Princeton University

Emilie Connolly, New York University
“Strategies of Succession and the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree”

Lauren Brand, Southern Nazarene University
“Facing West in Indian Country”

Robert Lee, Cambridge University
“The Indian Boundary Line and the Imperialization of U.S.–Indian Affairs.”

Comment: Elizabeth Ellis, New York University

11:30AM–12:00PM   Break

12:00–1:30PM            Industry, Trade, and the Imperial State

Chair: Cathy Matson, PEAES and University of Delaware

Susan Gaunt Stearns, University of Mississippi
“Selling the West: Frontier Merchants and Imperial Authority, 1780-1811”

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University of Ohio
“How the National Firearms Industry Helped Make an Early Republic Empire”

Alicia Maggard, Williams College
“Pacific Mail, Industrial Empire: Building U.S. Power in the Pacific”

Comment: Honor Sachs, University of Colorado, Boulder

1:30–3:00PM              Lunch on your own

3:00–4:45PM              Knowledge Production and the Tools of U.S. Empire

Chair: Alexandra Montgomery, University of Pennsylvania

Tisa Wenger, Yale University
“Making Settler Religion: Missionary Benevolence in the Early Republic”

Sveinn Jóhannesson, Institute of Historical Research, London
“Science and the Imperial Impulse in the Early United States”

Michael Verney, Drury University
“Selling Empire: Publishing and Presenting Naval Imperialism in the Early American Republic, 1842-1860”

Comment: Ned Blackhawk, Yale University

4:45–5:00PM              Keynote Introduction

Emily Conroy–Krutz, Michigan State University

Michael Blaakman, Princeton University

5:00–6:00PM              Keynote Speaker

Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Debating Empire, Race, and Nation in the Early Nineteenth Century”

6:00–7:00PM              Reception

  

FRIDAY, MARCH 29

McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets), Philadelphia

9:00–9:45AM             Registration & Coffee

9:45–11:30AM           Race, Slavery, and Geographies of Empire

Chair: Emily Conroy–Krutz, Michigan State University

Nancy O. Gallman, McNeil Center and Lewis & Clark College
“Unmaking an American Republic: Settlers, African Americans, and Constitutional Law in the Spanish Florida Borderlands”

Brandon Mills, University of Colorado, Denver
“From a Settler Empire to a Global Empire: Reconsidering the African Colonization Movement”

Scott Heerman, University of Miami
“Freedom in Chains: U.S. Empire and the Illegal Slave Trade”

Comment: Rashauna Johnson, Dartmouth College

11:30–11:45AM          Break

11:45AM–1:30PM     Law and the Politics of Imperial Expansion

Chair: Bethel Saler, Haverford College

Jessica Choppin Roney, Temple University
“Inalienable: The Limits of an Empire Based Upon Natural Rights”

Julia Lewandoski, University of California, Berkeley
“An Empire of Indian Titles: Private Land Claims in Early American Louisiana, 1803-1840”

Camille Suarez, University of Pennsylvania
“This Land is Not Your Land: The Land Claims Act of 1851, Unratified Treaties, and the Dispossession of Californios and Native Americans”

Comment: Sarah Rodriguez, University of Arkansas

1:30–2:30PM              Lunch on your own

2:30–4:15PM              Imperialism and Its Discontents

Chair: Andy Shankman, Rutgers University-Camden

Margot Minardi, Reed College
“Pax Americana? The Imperial Ambivalence of American Peace Reformers”

Nick Guyatt, University of Cambridge
“Imperialism and the American Imagination”

Amy Greenberg, Pennsylvania State University
“Mercenary Ambivalence: Military Violence in Antebellum America’s Wars of Empire”         

Comment: Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University

4:15–5:00PM              Closing Remarks                  

Michael Blaakman, Princeton University

Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University

5:00–6:00PM             Reception

Co-sponsors

The Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Department of History at Princeton University, and Iona College’s Institute of Thomas Paine Studies are pleased to co-sponsor this two-day conference bringing together scholars of imperialism in its multiple early North American forms and spaces.

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