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Potosi
Jane Mangan, Davidson College, "World-Famous and a World Unto Itself:
Integrating the Local and Global Significance of Potosí in Early Modern
History" -- October
5
Catherine Julien, Western Michigan University, "Spanish Reform and Change
in the Potosí Hinterland" -- October 12
Ana Maria Presta, University of Buenos Aires (CHR Senior Fellow), "The
First Jewel in the Crown of the Southern Andies: Discovery and Exploitation
of Porco, 1538-1576" -- October
12
Ouidah
Neil Norman, University of Virginia, "Ouidah Town and Country: The
Urbanization and Ruralization of an Emerging African Atlantic Entrepôt." (CHR
Dissertation Fellow) -- Nov. 9
Robin Law, University of Stirling,"'A Crossroads of Cultural Microcosms':
Ouidah as a Multi-Ethnic Community" -- November 16
Charles Town
NOTE: This session will be held in Psychology 0002 from 1:30-3:30
Alan Gallay, The Ohio State University, "Charles Town and the Atlantic
World" -- April 18
Robbie Ethridge, University of Mississippi, "Mapping the Mississippian
Shatter Zone: The European Invasion and Regional Instability in the American
South." -- April 18
Quebec/Detroit
NOTE: These sessions will be held in University Hall 014 from 3:30-5:30
Brett Rushforth, Brigham Young University, "'To Make a New World’:
France, New France, and the Rise of Modern Imperialism" -- May 9
Kenneth Banks, University of Ottawa, "A Little Versailles in the Wilderness:
Quebec, and the Aesthetics of Royal Power, 1670-1760"
-- May 16
Robert Duplessis, Swarthmore College, "Hotspots and Hinterlands:
Socio-Cultural Impacts of Textiles Across the Atlantic." -- May 16