Program
Friday 2/22
5:00 - 6:30pm Keynote Address _ Smith-Buonanno Hall, room 106
Rebecca Tinio McKenna (University of Notre Dame)
"Parlor, Port, Company Town, and Saloon: Scenes from a History of the Piano"
Reception to follow in Lobby of Smith-Buonanno
5:00 - 6:30pm Keynote Address _ Smith-Buonanno Hall, room 106
Rebecca Tinio McKenna (University of Notre Dame)
"Parlor, Port, Company Town, and Saloon: Scenes from a History of the Piano"
Reception to follow in Lobby of Smith-Buonanno
Saturday 2/23
*All events are in Smith-Buonanno Hall, room 201, room 206 and the adjacent lobby.
9:30 - 10:00am Registration, coffee, breakfast
10:00am - 12:00pm Session 1
Contest for Control along Early American Waterways _room 206
Chair: Linford Fisher (Brown University)
Chair: Francoise Hamlin (Brown University)
12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch _ provided to registered participants
1:00 - 2:30pm Session 2
Making and Unmaking of Peripheries: Economic Networks, Natural Resources, and Diverging Spaces _ room 206
Chair: Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University)
Chair: Naoko Shibusawa (Brown University)
2:30 - 3:00pm Coffee and refreshment break
3:00 - 4:30pm Session 3
Boundaries of Belief: Contesting Belonging in the Premodern World _ room 206
Chair: Tara Nummedal (Brown University)
Chair: Marcus Nevius (University of Rhode Island)
*All events are in Smith-Buonanno Hall, room 201, room 206 and the adjacent lobby.
9:30 - 10:00am Registration, coffee, breakfast
10:00am - 12:00pm Session 1
Contest for Control along Early American Waterways _room 206
Chair: Linford Fisher (Brown University)
- Alice King (University of Virginia), "Pyquaagg nowe called Wythersfeild:" Connecticut River Communities and Conflict in the Pequot War, 1636-1638 "
- Donovan Fifield (University of Virginia), “Charles Apthorp’s Warehouse: Oceanfront Property, Information Access, and Monopolization in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts”
- Jennifer Levin (University of Virginia), “‘The Good Union of the Two Crowns’: Cautious Collaboration on the Gulf Coast during the War of the Spanish Succession”
- Chris Whitehead (University of Virginia)
Chair: Francoise Hamlin (Brown University)
- Sam Hege (Rutgers University), “Living in the Flats: A Study of Race, Water, and Toxicity in America’s Agricultural Heartland”
- Carie Rael (Rutgers University), “From Farmland to Fantasyland: Anaheim’s History of Racialized Violence”
- Joseph Kaplan (Rutgers University), “Normalizing Repression: How the United States Turned Assata Shakur into a Terrorist and Resuscitated COINTELPRO”
- Ian Gavigan (Rutgers University), “Ballot Box Radicalism and the Limits of the City: Pennsylvania Socialists in the Great Depression, 1927-1937”
12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch _ provided to registered participants
1:00 - 2:30pm Session 2
Making and Unmaking of Peripheries: Economic Networks, Natural Resources, and Diverging Spaces _ room 206
Chair: Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University)
- Keegan Cothern (Brown University), "Engineering the Periphery: Reclaimed Land and the Growth of Tokyo Bay"
- Ji Soo Hong (Brown University), “From Hinterland to Powerhouse: The Rise of Oil Towns and Siberian Development, 1960-1980"
Chair: Naoko Shibusawa (Brown University)
- Kevin Caprice (University of Virginia), “Premium Veteranhood: Union Veteran usage of Place, Space, and Peripheries”
- Brooke Thomas (Rutgers University), “To Make Black Girls Aware of Their Surroundings, Problems and Culture:” The 1970 Conference on Black Girl Scouting and Black Power”
- Anna Richey (Rutgers University), “The Politics of Space in Feminist Anti Rape Activism in Columbus, Ohio”
2:30 - 3:00pm Coffee and refreshment break
3:00 - 4:30pm Session 3
Boundaries of Belief: Contesting Belonging in the Premodern World _ room 206
Chair: Tara Nummedal (Brown University)
- Amanda Rivera (Boston University), “The Rise of a Phoenix: Liminal Transformation in Moschus’ Europa”
- Micaela Kowalski (University of Virginia), “From the Marvelous to the Demonic: Shifting visual vocabulary of peripheries during the Reformation”
- Tyler Kynn (Yale University), “Encountering Islam and Empire: The Early Modern Hajj and the Political Meanings of a Trans-Imperial Space”
Chair: Marcus Nevius (University of Rhode Island)
- Jerrad P. Pacatte (Rutgers University), “Cartographies of Captivity and Resistance: The Spatial History of Slavery and Unfreedom in Pre-Revolutionary War New England”
- Whitney Fields (Rutgers University), “Contested Grounds: The Grave, Community, and Resistance in the Antebellum South”
- Evan Turiano (City University of New York), “Its Head in the City, Its Body in the Country: Rural Activism and the Fugitive Slave Crisis”