Fw: Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction

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FORUM ON EUROPEAN EXPANSION AND GLOBAL INTERACTION
Third Biennial Meeting, St. Augustine, Florida, February 17-19, 2000

Thursday, February 17, 2000

7:30 P.M. Opening Remarks, Flagler College Grand Ball Room

William L. Proctor, President,  Flagler College
Thomas Graham, Flagler College & Historic St. Augustine Research
Institute
        
7:45-9:30 First Spanish Contacts in the Caribbean and Florida

1. "The Archaeology of the First Spanish Cities in the Caribbean:
Concepción de la Vega, Hispaniola"
        Kathleen A. Deagan, University of Florida & Historic St.
Augustine Research Institute

2. "The Uncovering of Santa Elena: A Case Study in Ethnohistoric
Collaboration"
        Eugene Lyon, Flagler College and University of Florida, Emeritus

3. "The Spiritual Conquest of Spanish Florida: Mortuary Data from the
Missions"  
        Bonnie G. McEwan, San Luis Archaeological and Historic Site

Chair/Discussion Moderator, Michael Gannon, University of Florida &
Historic
St. Augustine Research Institute

Friday, February 18, 2000, Flagler College Grand Ball Room

8:00-9:30 A.M.  Cities and Trade

1. "Taiwan as a Transit Port of Precious Metals, 1633-1668" 
        Kayoko Fujita,  Leiden University

2. "How Africa Exploited Europe: Regulation and Manipulation in the
Atlantic
Trade on the Gold Coast"
        Rebecca Shumway Manelski, Emory University

3. "Competition or Co-operation? The Relationship Between European and
Indian Merchants in Indian Port Towns, 1750-1850"
        Bhaswati Bhattacharya,  Leiden University

4. "Colonial Cities and the Contours of Consumption in the
Eighteenth-Century North Atlantic"
        Robert S. DuPlessis, Swarthmore College

Chair/Discussion Moderator 

9:30-9:45 A. M.  Coffee Break in the Rotunda

Friday, February 18, 2000

9:45-11:15 A.M. Interstitial People and Cultural Brokers

1. "Wives, Whores, and Concubines: Women in Early Dutch Asia"
        Eric Jones, University of California-Berkeley

2. "Cross-Cultural Sex and Colonial Community Building from a Comparative
Perspective: Intimate Relations between Dutch Men and Native Women in New
York and Ghana, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"
        Mark Meuwese, University of Notre Dame

3. "Between the British and the French: The Contrasting Fortunes of the
Afro-Brazilian Communities of Ouidah and Lagos"
        Elisee Soumonni, Université Nationale du Benin

4. "Jews and the Cosmology of ‘Place' in British American Port
Towns,1700-1800"
        Holly Snyder, Brandeis University

Chair/Discussion Moderator, James Williams, Middle Tennessee
StateUniversity

11:25-12:55  Nature, Science, and Expansion 

1. "The Wonders of the Sea in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic"
        Peter Mancall, University of Kansas

2. "Scientific Travelers in Hawaii, 1815-1830"
        Harry Liebersohn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3. "Spanish Naturalists in Cuba and the West Indies, 1785-1800"
        Iris H. Engstrand, University of San Diego
        
4. "King George's Sandbox: Playing at Politics, Science and Empire in the
Royal Gardens at Kew, 1760-1769"
        Robert Olwell, University of Texas
        
Chair/Discussion Moderator, Rosemary Brana-Shute, College of Charleston

1:00-2:15 Lunch and Business Meeting

2:30-4:00 Imperial Peripheries

1.  "Arctic Outpost: The English Mining Camp at Kodlunarn, 1577-78"
        Joyce Chaplin, Vanderbilt University 

2. "War, Race and Indian Politics in the Darien: The Spanish Attempt to
Establish an Eastern Panama Frontier, 1739-1751"
        Ignacio Gallup-Díaz, Bryn Mawr College

3."The Periphery of the Periphery: Vila Boa de Goiás, 1780-1835"
        Mary Karasch, Oakland University

4. "Native Responses to European Expansion in the North Pacific,
1750-1850"
        Christon I. Archer, University of Calgary

Chair/Discussion Moderator, Murdo MacLeod, University of Florida

Friday, February 18, 2000 

4:00-4:15 P.M.  Coffee Break in the Rotunda

4:15-5:40 P.M. Slave Health,  Medicine, and Healing

1. "Slave Diet and Health During the Final Passage: Cartagena de Indias
to
Lima in the Early 17th Century"
        Susie Minchin, University of London and Linda Newson, University
of
London

2. "Recreating Africa: Mbundu ‘Calundu' Rituals and Portuguese Response
in
Seventeenth-Century Brazil"
        James Sweet, University of Wisconsin, Appleton

3. "Of Sickness and Slavery: French Medical Doctors in Egypt and the
Trans-Sahara Slave Trade, 1798-1858"
        George Michael La Rue, Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Chair/Discussion Moderator, Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University

6:00-8:00 Reception, St. Augustine Historical Society's Oldest House (14
St.
Francis St.)

Saturday, February 19, 2000, Flagler College Grand Ball Room

8:00-9:30 A.M.  Slave Trade

1. "Letters of the Old Calabar Slave Trade, 1761-1789"
        Paul Lovejoy, York University and David Richardson, University of
       Hull

2. "Agents in the King's Pound: An Examination of Authority Around
European
Outposts On Africa's West Coast"
        Donald Wright, SUNY-Cortland

3. "Administering the Slave Trade: The Multifarious Functions of Cape
Coast
Castle, 1750-1790"
        Ty Reese, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

4. "A Work of Compassion: The Dutch Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean in
the
Seventeenth Century"
        Markus Vink, SUNY-Fredonia

Chair/Discussion Moderator, Ralph Austen, University of Chicago

9:30-9:45 A. M.  Coffee Break in the Rotunda

9:45-11:15 A.M. The Spanish Global Empire

1. "Sino-Spanish Collaboration and the Making of Colonial Manila,
1571-1834"
        Andrew Wilson, United States Naval War College

2.  "Gold, Silk, Wine, and Wool: Patterns of the Quito Trade, circa 1599"
        Kris E. Lane, College of William and Mary

3.  "Port Cities and ‘Pirates': Problems and Opportunities in Trying
toPull
the Nails out of the Fabric of the Early-Modern Spanish Global Empire"
        Bruce P. Lenman, University of St. Andrews

4. "Spain's Last Attempt at Empire, 1790-1792"
        Donald C. Cutter, University of New Mexico

Chair/Discussion Moderator, Amy Turner Bushnell, College of Charleston 

Saturday, February 19, 2000

11:25-12:55 Cosmopolitanism and Identities in Transition

1. "English Cosmopolitans and the Mediterranean Origins of the First
British
Empire"
        Alison F. Games, Georgetown University

2. "Spanish Town, Jamaica: A Colonial Capital in the Atlantic World"
        James Robertson, University of the West Indies, Mona

3.  "Post-Colonialism ‘avant la lettre'? Patriotic Epistemology in
Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish America"
        Jorge Cañizares Esguerra, SUNY- Buffalo 

Chair/Discussion Moderator, David Hancock, University of Michigan 

1:00-2:15 Lunch (On your own)

2:30 P.M.- 4:00 P.M. Cities, Entrepots, and Outposts on Russian's Eastern
Frontier, 1550-1770 

1.  "Monastic Colonization on the Russian Frontier: Urban Networks in the
Volga-Ural Region, 1552-1682"
        Matthew P. Romaniello, Ohio State University    
        
2. "Raid, Trade, or Crusade? Patterns of Interaction on the
Russian-Ottoman
Steppe Frontier"
        Brian J. Boeck, Harvard University

3. "Soft Frontier Expansion, Weak Urban Centers, Soft Cash and Hard
Bigotry:
Seventeenth-Century Russian Expansion in Siberia"
        Peter B. Brown, Rhode Island College

4. "Interracial Cities in Siberia: Nerchinsk, Kyakhta, and the
Russo-Chinese
Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"
        Eva-Marie Stolberg, University of Bonn

Chair/Discussion Moderator, William M. Reger IV, Illinois State
University

4:00-4:15 P.M.  Coffee Break in the Rotunda

4:15-5:45 P.M. Archaeology of Cities and Trade

1. "Contributions to a Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire:
Artifacts of Trade and Social Change in Palestine"
        Uzi Baram, New College of the University of South Florida

2. "Lost Colonies: the Search for Raleigh's Outposts"
        Eric Klingelhofer, Mercer University

3. "Jamestown, 1607-1699: Archaeology of an English Colonial Capital in a
Global Perspective"
        Audrey Horning, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

4. "Williamsburg and Yorktown: Virginia's Second Capital and its
FamousSeaport"
        Andrew Edwards, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Chair/Discussion Moderator, Meaghan Duff,  Western Kentucky University

Saturday, February 19, 2000

6:00-7:00 P.M. Walking Tour

8:00 Dinner, Markland, Flager College
        
"Spanish Florida as Colonial Borderland, 1784-1821: Trade, Travel,
Culture
and the Atlantic World," 
        James G. Cusick, P. K . Yonge Library of Florida History,
University
of Florida

The Forum for European Expansion and Global Interaction
would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of 
Flagler College, The St. Augustine Historical Society, and 
the College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University 
Jane Landers
Associate Professor
Department of History
Vanderbilt University
Box 1802 Station B
Nashville, TN 37235, USA
Tel: 615-322-3403 (office)
Fax: 615-343-6002 (dept)
E-mail: jane.landers@
vanderbilt.edu