BGEAH Postgraduate and Early Career Workshop in Early American History

Feb 17, 2016 | Events

BGEAH Postgraduate and Early Career Workshop in Early American History

American History Workshop2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of BGEAH, the British Group of Early American Historians.

This day-long workshop for postgraduate researchers and early career academics working on any facet of American or Atlantic history from the seventeenth century through the early national period invites them to discuss their ideas among their peers and, where appropriate, to assess the current state of early American research in Britain.

The first BGEAH Postgraduate and Early Career Workshop is being held at the London-based Institute of Historical Research. London, with its unique colonial archival resources and lively research student populati­­on, is one of the leading centres of early American scholarship in Europe, and the IHR is a natural location for this event. The IHR Library recently opened its new North American Room, housing one of the foremost UK collections of published material relating to the early history of the United States, Caribbean, and Canada.

You can register for this workshop at the University of London Online Store

Provisional Programme

09:00- 09:30 Registration

09:30-09:45 Welcoming Remarks
Prof. Lawrence Goldman (Director of the IHR) and Gareth Davis (UCL)

09:45-11:00 Panel 1: BACK TO THE FUTURE – The State of the Job Market for Early Americanists

  • Billy Coleman (UCL)
  • Tom Cutterham (Oxford)
  • Stephen Conway (UCL)

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:15 Panel 2: CLIMATES AND IMMUNOCAPITAL IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC

  • Matthew Griffin (UCL): Climate and Regional Distinctiveness in the Environmental Imagery of the Early Republic.
  • Kathryn Olivarius (Oxford): Immunocapital, State Absence, and Yellow Fever – Becoming a Citizen of New Orleans, 1796-1840.

12:15- 13:00 Lunch

13:00- 14:30 Panel 3: CHURCH, COUNCIL AND GEOPOLITICS IN THE BRITISH ATLANTIC WORLD

  • Kennedy Sanderson (Cambridge):Kemeys v Clarke – A Case Study of Commercial Arbitration and the Transatlantic Legal System in Jamaica, 1767-1782.
  • Philip Abrahams (KCL): The Church of England, Anglican Protestantism, and Colonial Society in Later Stuart Barbados.
  • Daniel Robinson (Cambridge) Spiritual Geopolitics and Political Culture in British North America, c. 1713-1763.

14:30-14:45 Break

14:45-16:15 Panel 4: POLITICS, PIRATES, AND PROPAGANDA IN REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA

  • Rebecca Simon (KCL):“The Ideological Pirate – Propaganda during the American Revolution.”
  • Gareth Davis (UCL): ““War must decide who rules Canada” – Continentals in Quebec, 1775-1776.”
  • Angel Luke O’Donnell (KCL): ““Pregnant with Many Advantages to America” – Almanacs, Lotteries, and Consumer Politics in Philadelphia, 1765-1775”

16:15-16:45 Plenary Session: The State of Early American Studies in Britain

Tea and lunch will be provided to all attendees.