Schedule Information

2007-2008 Schedule

ALL EVENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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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