PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Wednesday, May 12
- 5:30-5:45 PM Opening Remarks
(Flagler College Auditorium, 14 Granada Street)
- 5:45-6:45 Keynote Address
José Rabasa (Harvard University)
(Flagler College Auditorium, 14 Granada Street)
- 7:00-9:00 pm Reception
St. Augustine Historical Society
(271 Charlotte Street)
Thursday, May 13
- 8-10:30 AM Registration
(Virginia Room, Ringhaver Student Center, 2nd foor)
- 8:30-10:00 Session I (Ringhaver Student Center)
- 10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
- 10:30-12:00 Session II
- Lunch Break 12:00-1:30
- 1:30-2:30 Keynote Address
Karen Ordahl Kupperman (New York University)
(Flagler College Auditorium, 14 Granada Street)
- 2:45-4:15 Session III (Ringhaver Student Center)
- 4:15-4:30 Coffee Break
- 4:30-6:00 Session IV
- 6:00-7:30 Reception
(Markland House, Flagler College, 102 King St.)
Friday, May 14
- 8:30-10:00 Session V (Ringhaver Student Center)
- 10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
- 10:15-11:45 Session VI
- 12:00-12:45 Luncheon
(Casa Monica Hotel, Ballroom)
- 12:45-1:45: Keynote Address:
Amy Turner Bushnell (Brown University)
(Casa Monica Hotel, Ballroom)
- 2:00-3:30 Session VII (Ringhaver Student Center)
- 3:30-3:45: Coffee Break
- 3:45-5:15 Session VIII
- 5:15-5:30: In Memoriam: Frank Shuffelton, 1940-2010
(Kroger-Gamache Auditorium, Ringhaver Student Center, 1st foor)
- 8:00-10:00 PM Reception,
Sultan's Pavilion (Pool Deck Level), Casa Monica Hotel
Saturday, May 15
- 9:00-10:30 Session IX (Ringhaver Student Center)
- 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:45-12:15 Session X
- 6:45 PM Afternoon Historical Cruises of St. Augustine Bay
St. Augustine Municipal Marina
FULL PROGRAM
(all regular sessions will take place at the Ringhaver Student Center)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12
5:30-5:45 pm Opening Remarks
(Flagler College Auditorium, 14 Granada Street)
5:45-6:45 Keynote Address:
José Rabasa (Harvard University), "Elsewheres: Ethnosuicide at the Limits of Empire"
(Flagler College Auditorium, 14 Granada Street)
7:00-9:00 pm Reception
St. Augustine Historical Society
(271 Charlotte Street)
THURSDAY, MAY 13
Registration 8:00-10:30 AM (Virginia Room, Ringhaver Student Center, 2nd foor)
8:30-10:00 SESSION I
SLAVE NARRATIVES IN THE EARLY AMERICAS BEFORE 1845: BEYOND EQUIANO AND DOUGLASS (I)
Room 201
Panel Organizer: Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University)
Panel Chair: Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University)
- Creole Testimony and the Black Atlantic: Re-Mapping the Early Slave Narrative
Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University)
- Seizing Narrative Agency: Boyrereau Brinch's 1810 Middle Passage Discourse
Lynn R. Johnson (Dickinson College)
- Trials and Confessions of New-World Slave Narratives
Gretchen Woertendyke (University of South Carolina)
- Bonds of Duty in the Early Slave Narrative: From Covenant to Contract
Ian Finseth (University of North Texas)
BORDERLANDS AND CENTERS (I)
Room 203
Panel Organizer: Ivonne del Valle (University of California, Berkeley)
Panel Chair: Ivonne del Valle (University of California, Berkeley)
- The Part, the Whole, and the Limit in the Rhetoric of the Spanish Empire
Orlando Bentancor (Barnard College)
- Towards a Genealogy of Reducción
Bryan Green (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Borderlands at the Center: Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón's Treatise of Superstitions and the Powers of Mesoamerican Marginality in Seventeenth-Century New Spain
Viviana Díaz Balsera (University of Miami)
THE FIGURE OF THE TRANSLATOR/INTERPRETER
Room 213
Panel Organizers: Joy A. J. Howard (Purdue University) and Cassander Smith (Purdue University)
Panel Chair: Nancy L. Hagedorn (SUNY Fredonia)
- Reimagining the Translator, Reimagining the Redeemed Captive
Joy A. J. Howard (Purdue University)
- From Captive to Conquistador: Estevan, Fray Marcos and the Problem of Literary Translation
Cassander Smith (Purdue University)
- Lost in Translation: Interpreters and Empire Building in the 16th-Century Southeast
Jonathan DeCoster (Brandeis University)
- Comment: Nancy L. Hagedorn (SUNY Fredonia)
VIOLENCE AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ANGLO-AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Room 214
Panel Organizer: William P. Tatum III (Brown University)
Panel Chair: William P. Tatum III (Brown University)
- 'One Indian was equal to four regulars and two Indians equal to one Kentuckian': Developing Cultures of Violence in the Anglo-American Borderlands, 1754-1774
William P. Tatum III (Brown University)
- Violence in the Borderland
Matthew Jennings (Macon State College)
- 'Pick'd Indians and other men fit for ranging the woods':
Race, Violence, and the Evolution of Gorham's Rangers, 1744-1762
Brian D. Carroll (University of Connecticut)
- Comment: Paul Mapp (College of William and Mary)
TEACHING WORKSHOP: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación.
Room 215
Chair: David A. Boruchoff (McGill University)
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break, Virginia Room (Ringhaver Student Center, 2nd floor).
10:30-12:00 SESSION II
SLAVE NARRATIVES IN THE EARLY AMERICAS BEFORE 1845: BEYOND EQUIANO AND DOUGLASS (II)
Room 201
Panel Organizer: Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University)
Panel Chair: Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University)
- Exceptions to the Rule(s)? Phillis Wheatley and Juan Francisco Manzano as poetic narrators of slavery
Marilyn Miller (Tulane University)
- Sitiki: Child of the Diaspora
Patricia C. Griffin (Historic St. Augustine Research Institute)
- Surprising Beginnings: Rethinking Bondage in A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man
Keith Green (Rutgers University, Camden)
- Comment: Philip Gould (Brown University)
BORDERLANDS AND CENTERS (II)
Room 202
Panel Organizer: Ivonne del Valle (University of California, Berkeley)
Panel Chair: Ivonne del Valle (University of California, Berkeley)
- Cartography for a New Empire: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the 1693 Pensacola Expedition
Anna More (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Bordering on Empire: Felix de Azara's Memoria sobre el estado rural del Río de la Plata y otros informes
Karen Stolley (Emory University)
- Shifting Sands: Floridian Landscapes in the Early American Imagination
Michele Currie Navakas (Texas Tech University)
BORDERLANDS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITIES
Room 213
Panel Chair: Eric Anderson (George Mason University)
- From Middle Ground to Sacred Fountain: The Economics and Poetics of Flow in William Bartram's Travels
Rob McLoone (University of Iowa)
- Locating Independence with the "Franklin of the Southern World"
Emily García (Grand Valley State University)
- Nonsense, Common Sense, and Nation-Making: Tyler's The Algerine Captive and Lizardi's El periquillo sarniento
Michael Householder (Southern Methodist University)
THE NATURE OF MIXTURE
Room 214
Panel Organizer: Allison Bigelow (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Panel Chair: Allison Bigelow (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Communicable Cultures: Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive
Kelly Bezio (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Friendly Mixtures: The Language of Friendship in Early Modern English and Spanish Nature Writings
Allison Bigelow (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Utopian Natural Philosophy in Cavendish's Blazing World
Jason Pearl (Florida International University)
THE TRANS-ATLANTIC PARADIGM: RETHINKING THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF SPANISH BORDERLANDS IN THE UNITED STATES
Room 215
Panel Organizers: Mónica Díaz (University of Texas Pan American) and Raúl Marrero-Fente (University of Minnesota)
Panel Chair: Mónica Díaz (University of Texas Pan American)
- Rethinking American Borderlands and Spanish Imperialism: The expedition of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to Saint Agustin, Florida in 1565
Raúl Marrero-Fente (University of Minnesota).
- Philip II's Biblia Regia and the New World Indian-Jew
Pamela Brekka (University of Florida).
- Pláticas de los Españoles y 'Gente Colorada': Shifting Racial Discourse in the Florida Borderlands during the Second Spanish Period, 1784-1821
John Paul Nuño (University of Texas, El Paso)
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Gamache-Krogar Theater (Ringhaver Student Center, 1st foor)
Chairs: Maureen Ahern (Ohio State University) and Daniel Reff (Ohio State University).
12:00-1:15 PM Lunch
1:30-2:30 Keynote Address
Karen Ordahl Kupperman (New York University),
"Music in Early Modern Encounters."
(Flagler College Auditorium, 14 Granada Street)
2:45-4:15 SESSION III
AMERINDIAN BORDERLANDS
Room 201
Panel Chair: Kristina Bross (Purdue University).
- Identifying the 'Other': Native American Conceptions and Constructions of European National Identities in Jonathan Dickinson's God's Protecting Providence
Beau Gaitors (Purdue University)
- Did Native Americans have Borderlands? The Eighteenth-Century Cherokees as Case Study
Tyler Boulware (West Virginia University)
- Performing Sincerity: The Centrality of Amerindian Conversions in New England
Abram Van Engen (Northwestern University)
- Comment: Kristina Bross (Purdue University)
RELATIONS ACROSS IMPERIAL BORDERS (I)
Room 202
Panel Chair: Mark Miller (Hunter College)
- 'I Thought it Not Safe to Venture My Self Amongst the Spaniards': The Appalachian Borderlands in Early American Letters
Kim Borchard (Randolph-Macon College)
- Teaching for the Americas: School House Culture in Baron de Lahontan and William Byrd II
Matthew Duquès (Vanderbilt University)
- French Geographies of American Democracy: Continent, Periphery, Nation
Bob Fanuzzi (St. John's University)
RELIGIOUS EPISTEMOLOGIES IN THE EARLY MODERN AMERICAS
Room 213
Panel Organizer: Sarah Rivett (Princeton University)
Panel Chair: Yvette Piggush (Florida International University)
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Miguel Godinez and the Epistemology of New World Female Spirituality
Stephanie Kirk (Washington University)
- 'Unlockt the Doore, and made a golden day': The Early American Genre of the Key
Steffi Dippold (Stanford University)
- Key to the Language of America: Algonquin Words and Divine Truth
Sarah Rivett (Princeton University)
SMUGGLING ACROSS THE ARCHIPELAGO
Room 214
Panel Organizer: Gretchen J. Woertendyke (University of South Carolina)
Panel Chair: Gretchen J. Woertendyke (University of South Carolina)
- Sneaking in Disorder-Anti-Catholicism, Cuba, and the South
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez (University of Groningen)
- 'They All Love Contraband as if They Were Born in the Most Abominable Sin': The Culture of Smuggling in Hispaniola.1580s-1605
Juan J. Ponce-Vázquez (University of Pennsylvania)
- The Haitian Revolution, Racial Performance, and Cultural Smuggling
Peter P. Reed (University of Mississippi)
- Comment: David Shields (University of South Carolina)
THE CORPSE AS A CONTACT ZONE
Room 215
Panel Organizer: Kathleen Donegan (University of California, Berkeley)
Panel Chair: Kathleen Donegan (University of California, Berkeley)
- 'Not One of His Bones Should Be Buried': Corpses and Cross-Cultural Encounters
Erik Seeman (State University of New York at Buffalo)
- The Necropolitics of Early American Historical Romance
Jillian Sayre (University of Texas at Austin)
- Corporeal Grammar: the use of body parts in the seventeenth century Borderlands
Margaret Ball (University of Colorado at Boulder)
- Comment: Spectacular Bodies
Kathleen Donegan (University of California, Berkeley)
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Gamache-Krogar Theater (Ringhaver Student Center, 1st foor)
Chair: Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (University of Florida)
4:15-4:30 Coffee Break, Virginia Room (Ringhaver Student Center, 2nd floor)
4:30-6:00 SESSION IV
- RELATIONS ACROSS IMPERIAL BORDERS (II)
Room 201
Panel Chair: Kristina Bross (Purdue University)
- Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish Clashes in Salvador da Bahia: a Brazilian Contact Zone
Lúcia Helena Costigan (Ohio State University)
- The Development of a French Colony in the Detroit River Border Region, 1740s-1830s
Guillaume Teasdale (York University)
- Geography and Ethnography in Early American Landscape Painting: Global Imagery on the Painted Fireboards by M. F. Corné
Patricia Johnston (Salem State College)
WRITING THE AMERICAS IN THE AGE OF HUMBOLDT
Room 202
Panel Organizers: Vera M. Kutzinski (Vanderbilt University) and Christopher Iannini (Rutgers University)
Panel Chairs: Vera M. Kutzinski (Vanderbilt University) and Christopher Iannini (Rutgers University)
- 'An Investigation of the Facts, Bordering on the Obsessive:' Epistemology and Form in Alexander von Humboldt's Political Essay on the Island of Cuba
Christopher Iannini (Rutgers University)
- Falling Kings: Humboldt, Independence, and the End of the Subject
John Ochoa (Penn State University)
- From 'Total Impression' to the Fractal Representation of Traveling: Thoughts on a Humboldtian Poetics of Science
Tobias Kraft (University of Potsdam)
- Comment: Vera M. Kutzinski (Vanderbilt University)
INTERIOR FRONTIERS: RACE AND SEXUALITY ACROSS THE EARLY AMERICAS
Room 213
Panel Organizer: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (Rutgers University)
Panel Chair: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (Rutgers University)
- Mulataje vs. Mestizaje: The Limits of the Racial Imaginaries Between Tierra Firme and the Caribbean in the Extended Colonial Period
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (Rutgers University)
- 'Keeping Them Ignorant Who I Was': Performativity and Colonialism in The Female American
Heather Nelson (Purdue University)
- Limits of the Grid in the Late Colonial Frontier
Raquel Albarrán (University of Pennsylvania)
- Early American Intersectionalities: Race, Criminal Confession Narratives, and the
Development of a Discourse of Sexuality, New England, 1790-1800
Greta Lynn (University of Pennsylvania)
BORDERLINE PEDAGOGIES: SCHOOLING THE CRIOLLO, MESTIZO AND NATIVE ELITES IN MEXICO AND PERU (1540-1621)
Room 214
Panel Organizer: Martín Carrión (Calvin College)
Panel Chair: Martín Carrion (Calvin College)
- Pedagogies Baroque
Sara Castro-Klarén (The Johns Hopkins University)
- Pedagogy, Politics and Power: The Meanings of Education in 16th-century Missionary Historiography of New Spain
Ann de León (University of Alberta)
- The Making of Cuzco's Colonial Subjects of Knowledge
Martín Carrión (Calvin College)
BORDERLANDS AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD
Room 215
Panel Chair: Candace Ward (Florida State University)
- 'we can use those folk and turn them into Hollanders': Cosmopolitan Citizenship and Adriaen van der Donck's Description of New Netherland
John Easterbrook (New York University)
- Integrating the Borderlands into the Atlantic World: A Case Study from the Revolutionary Southeast
Nathaniel Millett (Saint Louis University)
- Margaretta as Federalist Fantasy
Richard S. Pressman (St. Mary's University)
TEACHING WORKSHOP: Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's La Florida del Inca
Gamache-Krogar Theater (Ringhaver Student Center, 1st foor)
Chairs: Lisa Voigt (Ohio State University) and Kimberly Borchard (Randolph-Macon College)
6:00-7:30 Reception
(Mackland House, Flagler College, 102 King St.)
FRIDAY, MAY 14
8:30-10:00: SESSION V
THEORIZING TRANS-ATLANTIC STUDY
Room 201
Panel Organizer: Steven Thomas (St. John's University)
Panel Chair: Steven Thomas (St. John's University)
- The Translocal and the Transatlantic
Julie Ellison (University of Michigan)
- Atlantic Localities: Toward a Theory of Literary and Cultural Regionalization
John Funchion (University of Miami)
- Against Gilroy?: The Political Atlantic
Steven Thomas (St. John's University)
EARLY AMERICAN TRANSHEMISPHERIC PERFORMANCES
Room 202
Panel Organizer: Astrid M. Fellner (Saarland University in Saarbruecken)
Panel Chair: Astrid M. Fellner (Saarland University in Saarbruecken)
- Performing the Unknown: Fantastic Travels to the Westward
Kerin Holt (Utah State University)
- Performing the Classics
Joseph M. Johnson (Emory University, Atlanta)
- The Performance of Sovereignty and the Performance of Alterity in Colonial Peruvian and Brazilian Festival Accounts
Lisa Voigt (Ohio State University)
TEXTUALITY, READING, AND LANGUAGE AT THE BORDER
Room 213
Panel Chair: Santa Arias (University of Kansas)
- Moctezuma as Reader: Using Textual Encounters to Understand the Colonial Encounter
Heather Allen (University of Chicago)
- Exploring Rhetoric at the Interface of Literature and History: Bartolomé de Flores's poem "Obra nuevamente compuesta" and Other Spanish and French Texts Dealing with the French-Spanish Fight for Florida
Pedro Cebollero (Auburn University)
- 'Very Singular Hieroglyphs': The Semiotic Borderlands and Early American Literature
Birgit Brander Rasmussen (Yale University)
BEFORE OÑATE: REPORTS, HISTORIES AND ITINERARIES TO NEW MEXICO, 1536-1592
Room 214
Panel Organizer: Maureen Ahern (Ohio State University)
Panel Chair: Maureen Ahern (Ohio State University)
- Prelude to Invasion: Indigenous Warfare, Politics, and Slavery on the Northern Frontier of New Spain
Daniel T. Reff (The Ohio State University)
- 'Lo que hay en esta tierra': Itinerary and Landscape in Baltasar de Obregón's Historia de los descubrimientos de Nueva España (1584)
Rebecca Carte (Georgia College & State University)
- The Itinerary to Pecos and Santo Domingo in Gaspar Castaño de Sosa's Memoria ...(1592)
Maureen Ahern (The Ohio State University)
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Room 215
Chairs: Rocio Quispe-Agnoli (Michigan State University) and Hilary Wyss (Auburn University)
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break, Virginia Room (Ringhaver Student Center, 2nd floor).
10:15-11:45 SESSION VI
CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES OF EARLY AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Room 201
Chair: Yolanda Martínez San Miguel (Rutgers University).
- Barbarism and the Spanish Frontier: Chichimecs and the Limits of Empire
Amber Brian (University of Iowa)
- Francisco Pizarro: His Concept of City and Territories
Song No (Purdue University)
- The Cultural Geography of the Port: Envisioning Coastal Borders in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish America
Mariselle Meléndez (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
READING CAPTIVITY IN THE EARLY AMERICAS
Room 202
Panel Chair: Hilary Wyss (Auburn University)
- 'Without thinking from whence I came': Rowlandson, Radisson, and the International Context of Captivity in America
Samantha Cohen (University of California, Irvine)
- German-language Captivity Narratives and the Construction of Identity in Colonial Pennsylvania
Rebekah Starnes (Ohio State University)
- Mary Godfrey and the Nexus of Otherness
Robert Bowman (Florida State University)
- Blacksnake's Path: The True Adventures of William Wells: a fiction reading
William Heath (Hood College)
RACE, IDENTITY AND THE CRITICAL HISTORY OF SPACES
Room 213
Panel Chair: Paul Moyer (SUNY Brockport)
- Boundaries of Race and Sentiment in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands, 1828-1853
Robert Gunn (University of Texas at El Paso)
- Sport and Recreational Venues as Biracial Borderlands in the Early Lower South
Hunt Boulware (Western Carolina University)
- An Exhortation among Friends: The Problem of Slavery in Early Quaker Pennsylvania
Michael Goode (University of Illinois at Chicago)
FLORIDA BORDERLANDS
Room 214
Panel Chair: Denise Bossy (University of North Florida)
- The Brown Sisters Encounter the Florida Borderlands
Keith L. Huneycutt (Florida Southern College)
- 'Those Who Camp at a Distance': Seminole Ethnogenesis on the Florida Borderlands
Andrew K. Frank (Florida State University)
- La presencia y utilización de la Florida en los últimos escritos de Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
Rosario Michelle Ramírez Matabuena (Florida State University)
FEMALE CONQUISTADORES: WOMEN AS AGENTS OF COLONIZATION
Room 215
Panel Organizers: Rocio Quispe-Agnoli (Michigan State University) and John G. McCurdy (Eastern Michigan University)
Panel Chair: John G. McCurdy (Eastern Michigan University)
- Autobiographical Spaces: Catalina de Erauso's Mapping of Colonial
Spanish America
Amanda Smith (Michigan State University)
- Domesticating the Border: Women as Intercultural Mediators in Early Colonial Andes
Rocío Quispe-Agnoli (Michigan State University)
- Imagining Women in Anglo America: Depictions of Gender in Hakluyt's Principal Navigations
John G. McCurdy (Eastern Michigan University)
- Comment: Mónica Díaz (University of Texas Pan American)
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Gamache-Krogar Theater (Ringhaver Student Center, 1st foor)
Chair: Cristobal Silva (Florida State University)
12:00-12:45 Luncheon
(Casa Monica Hotel, Ballroom)
12:45-145: Keynote Address
Amy Turner Bushnell (Brown University)
"The Reconciled Frontier and Its Markers: A Design
for the Borders of Early America"
(Casa Monica Hotel, Ballroom)
2:00-3:30 SESSION VII
CULTURAL BOUNDARIES IN EARLY AMERICAN VISUAL ARTS
Room 201
Panel Organizer: Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (University of Florida)
Panel Chair: Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (University of Florida)
- Transhemispheric Representations of 'America'
Astrid Fellner (Saarland University)
- Crossing the Boundary between Aztec and Maya Artist Traditions: Postclassic to
Colonial Period.
Susan Milbrath (University of Florida)
- Indigenous Identity and the Heraldic Imagination in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Mónica Domínguez Torres (University of Delaware)
- Performing Ethnicity or Simply Performing Piety? Donor Portraits from the Colonial Andes
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (University of Florida)
BLOODY BORDERS: WAR, COMMUNITY, AND CULTURAL TRANSITION IN SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NORTH AMERICA
Room 202
Panel Organizer: Andrea Robertson Cremer (Macalester College)
Panel Chair: Andrea Robertson Cremer (Macalester College)
- Mantiou and Militia Days: Religious Practice, Manliness, and Warfare in Early New England
R. Todd Romero (University of Houston)
- Dismembering the Body of Christ: Conflict in the Godly Community
Heather Miyano Kopelson (University of Alabama)
- The American Borderland Goes West: Bougainville, the Pacific Voyages, and Honor
Christian Crouch (Bard College)
- 'By All Subtle Insinuations and Persuasions:' The Art and Artifice of War Alliances in Seventeenth-Century New England
Andrea Cremer (Macalester College)
FRONTIER DISPATCHES
Room 213
Panel Organizer: Kelly Wisecup (University of North Texas)
Panel Chair: Kelly Wisecup (University of North Texas)
- 'Invisible Bullets' and the Literary Forms of Colonial Promotion in Thomas Hariot's Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia(1588)
Kelly Wisecup (University of North Texas)
- Boslopers and Brothers: Ritual Metaphor in the Mohawk-Dutch Alliance
Joanne van der Woude (Harvard University)
- Documenting Deerfield
Jeffrey Glover (Loyola University, Chicago)
- Medical theology and Just War in Las Sergas de Esplandián by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Martha Maus (University of Maryland)
- Comment: Karen Ordahl Kupperman (New York University)
EXCEPTIONALIST IDENTITIES IN THE EARLY AMERICAS
Room 214
Panel Organizer: Elise Bartosik-Velez (Dickinson College)
Panel Chair: Elise Bartosik-Velez (Dickinson College)
- North American Vassals: Negotiating the Contours of Allegiance Across Trans-Appalachian Backcountry, 1784-1791
Kevin Barksdale (Marshall University)
- The Rhetoric of Exceptionalism in Newspapers of the Early Americas
Elise Bartosik-Vélez (Dickinson College)
- Exemplary Iconoclasts of Education: Sarmiento, Franklin, and the Franklincitos of the Future
Ronald Briggs (Barnard College)
- Contesting Sovereignty: Class, Race, Church and Loyalty in the Natchez Rebellion, 1795-1798
Susan Gaunt Stearns (The University of Chicago)
TEACHING WORKSHOP: Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa, Jornada
Room 215
Chair: Mariselle Meléndez (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain)
3:30-3:45: Coffee Break,
Virginia Room (Ringhaver Student Center, 2nd floor).
3:45-5:15 SESSION VIII
EXCEPTIONAL WOMEN IN THE AMERICAS: CHALLENGING COMPARISONS
Room 201
Panel Organizers: Tamara Harvey (George Mason University) and Andrew Newman (SUNY Stony Brook)
Panel Chairs: Tamara Harvey (George Mason University) and Andrew Newman (SUNY Stony Brook)
- Daughters of Kahnawake: Tekakwitha and Williams
Andrew Newman (Stony Brook University)
- Calidad and Qualifications: Comparative Approaches to 'Exceptional' Black Women in the Americas, Juana Esperanza de San Alberto and Phillis Wheatley
Joan Bristol (George Mason University) and Tamara Harvey (George Mason University)
- Mapping the Women Authors of the Colonial Americas
Caroline Wigginton (University of Texas at Austin)
- Comment: Allyson M. Poska (University of Mary Washington)
THE MISSIONARY FRONTIERS
Room 202
Panel Chair: David A. Boruchoff (McGill University)
- Captive Psalmody
Glenda Goodman (Harvard University)
- Conflicting Visions of the Other in Fray Diego de Landa and Ah Nakuk Pech
Tiffany Dawn Creegan Miller (University of Kansas)
- Just Causes through History and Time: Democrates Secundus vs. The Challenge of Peace
Naida Saavedra (Florida State University)
LIMINAL LIVES: AMERICAN ENVOYS TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789-1799
Room 213
Panel Organizer: Wil Verhoeven (University of Groningen)
Panel Chair: Wil Verhoeven (University of Groningen)
- Ruth Barlow's Cosmopolitanism
Amanda Gilroy (University of Groningen)
- 'Unprincipled rascals': American Purveyors to the French Revolution, 1789-1795
Wil Verhoeven (University of Groningen)
- James Cole Mountflorence, Chancellor to the American Consulate in Paris
Wesley Campbell (Stanford University)
WATERY BORDERS: THE OCEAN IN EARLY MODERN TRANSATLANTIC LITERATURE
Room 214
Panel Organizer: Steve Mentz (St. John's University)
Panel Chair: Steve Mentz (St. John's University)
- From God's Sea to Saint Augustine: The Ocean and Jonathan Dickinson
Steve Mentz (St. John's University)
- To the Beach: Rewriting the Land/Sea Border
Martha Rojas (University of Rhode Island)
- Strange Fish: From Abundance to Endangerment in the North
Daniel Brayton (Middlebury College)
RACE, CONTACT, AND CULTURE: CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE OF THE EARLY AMERICAS
Room 215
Panel Organizer: Jennifer C. James (George Washington University)
Panel Chair: Jennifer C. James (George Washington University)
- Religion and Racial Formation in Toni Morrison's A Mercy (2008)
Jennifer C. James (George Washington University)
- History and Metaphor in Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger
Peter Dorsey (Mount St. Mary's University) and Robert Olwell (University of Texas at Austin)
- Transcontinental Borderlands: The Theme of the Voyageur in Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues
Antonio Barrenechea (University of Mary Washington)
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Kroger-Gamache Auditorium, Ringhaver Student Center, 1st foor
Chair: Dennis Moore (Florida State University)
5:15-5:30: In Memoriam: Frank Shuffelton, 1940-2010
Kroger-Gamache Auditorium, Ringhaver Student Center, 1st foor
8:00-10:00 PM Reception
(Sultan's Pavilion, Pool Deck Level, Casa Monica Hotel)
Saturday, May 15
9:00-10:30 SESSION IX
INTERSECTIONS OF GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND SOCIO-CULTURAL EXCHANGES IN THE ANGLO-IBERIAN BORDERLANDS
Room 201
Panel Organizer: Deborah Bauer (University of South Florida)
Panel Chair: Michael Kimaid (Bowling Green State University)
- 'The Other' Times Four: Morality, Power, and Sexuality in the Borderlands of British Florida
Deborah Bauer (University of South Florida)
- Women and Sexuality in the Inquisition: A Gendered Borderland
Stacey Schlau (West Chester University)
- The Girl Who Married A Turtle and Other Stories of Cross-Cultural Kinship in East Texas
Carla Gerona (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Comment: Michael Kimaid (Bowling Green State University)
CONSTRUCTING AND DECONSTRUCTING IMPERIAL GEOGRAPHIES: PIRATE EDITION
Room 202
Panel Organizer: Jason Payton (University of Maryland)
Panel Chair: Jason Payton (University of Maryland)
- Made of the Same Wood: Pirates and Philosophers as Builders of Empire: The Conquest of England, the Colonization of the Yucatan and the Invention of Spain, 1660-1720
Eva Botella Ordinas (Autónoma of Madrid University)
- Buccaneer Ethnography and the Cultural Geography of the Circum-Caribbean
Jason Payton (University of Maryland)
- The Wreck of the Speedwell and the Bad Language of Mutiny
Richard Frohock (Oklahoma State University)
- The Most Unprecedented Cruelties Have Been Practiced by These Unfeeling Monsters: The Ideology of Atrocity in Lucretia Parker's Piratical Barbarity, or The Female Captive (1825)
Daniel Williams (Texas Christian University)
RACED BODIES AND CONTESTED PLACES
Room 213
Panel Organizer: Derrick Spradlin (Freed Hardeman University)
Panel Chair: Derrick Spradlin (Freed Hardeman University)
- The Diseased Slave as the Ladies' Friend: Defining and Defending British Womanhood in Popular Medicine
Marcia Nichols (University of South Carolina)
- Body as Contact Zone: Sor Juana's Cultural Negotiations in The Divine Narcissus
Katherine D. Perry (Auburn University)
- Between Races and Places: Liminality in The Female American
Cathy Rex (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire)
- Pragmatically Indian
Derrick Spradlin (Freed Hardeman University)
JURIS/DICTION: THE POLITICO-RHETORICAL BORDERLANDS OF EARLY AMERICA
Room 214
Panel Organizer: Jordan Alexander Stein (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Panel Chair: Jordan Alexander Stein (University of Colorado at Boulder)
- Pirate Convictions: States of Mind in Colonial Piracy Trials and Narratives
Erica Burleigh (John Jay, CUNY)
- Three Women's Texts and a Critique of the Public Sphere
Jonathan Beecher Field (Clemson University)
- The Maypole of Merrymount: An Analysis of Legal Geography in the Indian-English Encounter
Nan Goodman (University of Colorado at Boulder)
- How Pamela Won the French Revolution
Jordan Alexander Stein (University of Colorado at Boulder)
GENEALOGY AND CARTOGRAPHY
Room 215
Panel Organizers: Elizabeth Pettinaroli (Rhodes College) and Ayesha Ramachandra (Stony Brook University)
Panel Chairs: Elizabeth Pettinaroli (Rhodes College) and Ayesha Ramachandra (Stony Brook University)
- Identity Formation in the Face of Power
Tatiana Seijas (Miami University)
- Mapping Origins: The Cosmographic Scope of Indian Genealogies
Ayesha Ramachandran (Stony Brook University)
- Reclaiming Florida: Regional Literary Projects in Spanish America
Elizabeth Pettinaroli (Rhodes College)
TEACHING WORKSHOP: William Bartram's Travels
Kroger-Gamache Auditorium, Ringhaver Student Center, 1st foor
Chair: Thomas Hallock (University of South Florida)
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break, Virginia Room (Ringhaver Student Center, 2nd floor)
10:45-12:15 SESSION X
SEX AND ORDER
Room 201
Panel Chair: James Truman (Huntingdon College)
- Interracial Sex and the Law in Plymouth Colony
Roger Carpenter (University of Louisiana, Monroe)
- 'I Made Fresh Pursuit after Him': Law, Order and Sexual Misconduct on the Maine Frontier
Abby Chandler (Utah Valley University)
- Sir Walter Raleigh's Queens: The New World Counterparts of Elizabeth I and the Fear of the Erotic in The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana
Rebecca Lush (University of Maryland)
BORDER KNOWLEDGE
Room 202
Panel Chair: Ralph Bauer (University of Maryland)
- Everyday Medicine in Early Modern New Spain
Millie Gimmel (University of Tennessee)
- Reading and Becoming: Ethical Responses to the Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Juan Rodríguez Freyle's El carnero
Luis Fernando Restrepo (University of Arkansas)
- Marked Bodies: Physicality and Borderland Knowledge in John Stedman's Narrative of Surinam
Tasos Lazarides (University of Maryland)
- The Space of a Lost Frontier: Imagining and Mourning Mexico in its Mid-Nineteenth-century 'Memory Maps'
Mark K. Burns (Brigham Young University)
THE SPACE BETWEEN: EARLY AMERICAN 'BORDERLANDS'
Room 213
Panel Organizer: Susan Castillo (King's College, London)
Panel Chair: Susan Imbarrato (Minnesota State University, Moorhead)
- Doing the Spatial Two-Step: Aeneas and Pizarro in Cotton Mather's Pietas in Patriam
Teresa Toulouse (University of Colorado)
- François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny's relation of the Battle of Pensacola in 1719
Gordon Sayre (University of Oregon)
- American Indians in Borderlands Art History: A Comparative Study
Ned Blackhawk (Yale University)
- Comment: Dennis Moore (Florida State University)
SPANISH RELIGIOUS AND THE NAHUAS: FORMS OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN THE CONVENTS OF NEW SPAIN
Room 214
Panel Organizers: Camilla Townsend (Rutgers University) and Frederick Luciani (Colgate University)
Panel Chairs: Camilla Townsend (Rutgers University) and Frederick Luciani (Colgate University)
- Indigenous Elements in a Festejo in the Convent of San Jerónimo, Mexico City (1756)
Frederick Luciani (Colgate University)
- Sor Juana's Use of the Nahuatl Language
Camila Townsend (Rutgers University)
- Indigenous Elements in New Spain's Convent Art
James M. Córdova (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Cacique Nuns and the Fashioning of Indian Identity through Religious Discourse
Mónica Díaz (University of Texas Pan American)
PERIPHERIES AND CENTERS III
Room 215
Panel Organizer: Ivonne del Valle (University of California, Berkeley)
Panel Chair: Cristobal Silva (Florida State University)
- Geography, Climate, and the Savage Peoples: New Spain's Borderlands and their Challenge to the Idea of the Universal
Ivonne del Valle (University of California, Berkeley)
- Conquest, Rupture and the Measure of History: A Reflection on the Notion of Center and Periphery in Relación geográfica de Tlaxcala (1581-1584)
Jannette Amaral (Columbia University)
- From the Periphery to the Center: The Importance of the Territory of Taguzgalpa in the Expansion Eastward and the Configuration of the Province of Honduras
José Lara (Georgetown University)
- Spiritual Economy of the Religious Icon on the Frontiers of Spanish
Christendom
John Blanco (University of California, San Diego)
6:45: Historical Cruises of St. Augustine Bay, St. Augustine Municipal Marina
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