Thursday, June 25

Detailed schedule

THURSDAY, June 25

9.00-10.30       Session 1

Panel 1: How We Remember 1619, Roundtable
Chair: Hilary Emmett

Shirley Samuels
Tara A. Bynum
Brigitte Fielder
Jonathan Senchyne

Panel 2: Public Histories of 1620
Chair: Mairin Odle

Did It Come Over on the Mayflower? Provenance as a Path toward Recognition and Respect, Kenneth Cohen
Memory and ‘Religious Freedom’ in England and America, 1620-1660, Erin Bell
Migrant Film: Reframing Contemporary Refugee Discourse Through the Separatists, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

Panel 3: Remembering Other Places on the Early American Map
Chair: Carla Pestana

Muddled Orthodoxies, Laura Stevens
Charting Commercial Prospects & Imperial Perils in Jamaica’s Port Royal: Late-Seventeenth Century Pilotage Charts of Port Royal Jamaica, Alistair Maeer
Beyond Pen and Ink Treaties, Zoe Waldman

10.30-11.00     BREAK

11.00-12.30     Session 2

Panel 4: New England History Before the Fact
Chair: Laura Stevens

“Overthrown, and Undone:” Plymouth Colony’s Purge of 1625, Len Travers
'O Tempora, O Mores!' Remembering the Academy in Early New England, Theodore (Teddy) Delwiche
Law and Religion in Plymouth Colony, Scott Douglas Gerber
Living Biblically: Mosaic Law in Puritan Massachusetts, Israel Ben-Porat

Panel 5: Life and Afterlife in Early American Literature
Chair: Matthew Pethers

Portable Things in Captivity, Chloe Wigston Smith
Questionable Quarantine, Emelia Robertson and Lindsey Wedow
Remembering Racialized Violence, Katie Simon
The Sea and the Silent Woman, Rachel Trocchio

Panel 6: Imperial Collection and Atlantic Circulation
Chair: Hilary Wyss

A ‘box of scalps & some Indian arms’: The Atlantic Circulation of War Trophies, Mairin Odle
Recovering Relations: Speaking with Indigenous Wampum in European Collections, Margaret Bruchac
A Chickasaw Chief Abroad: Better Understanding the Visit of a Chickasaw Chief to England between 1743 and 1746, Anthony Perry

Panel 7: In Search of Lost Texts: Early American Memory and/as Book History
Chair: Phillip Round

Speak, Materialities: How Early Indigenous Book Objects Remember, Steffi Dippold
Memorializing the Transatlantic Book Trade Through Marginalia, John J. Garcia
Of Mobility, Textuality, and Memory: Locating “New France”, John H. Pollack

12.30-13.30     LUNCH

13.30-15.00     Session 3

Panel 8: Sovereign Rhetorics and Memory
Chair: Phillip Round

Tisquantum, The Red Atlantic, and the Anglo-Wampanoag War, Neal Salisbury
Remembering Apess Remembering, Katy Chiles
Public Historical Reflections, Christina Metzger

Panel 9: Remembering Other Places on the Early American Map
Chair: Oliver Scheiding

Make America Dutch Again: Pre-Yankee Nostalgia in Washington Irving’s Bracebridge Hall, Hannah Lauren Murray
Puritan and Cavalier? Why not Pennsylvania-German?, Karen Auman
Commemorating the Pilgrim Fathers on the Humber, Sam Edwards
“Plantation” over “Pilgrims”: Collective Agency and Its Discontents, Anton Povzner

Panel 10: Lost Voices, Forgotten Voyages: Colonial Ghosts in a Postcolonial World
Chair: Nicole Aljoe

Curating the Virtual Caribbean: Digital Memory and Cultural Legacies, JoAnne Harris
Voyages: Savages on Canoes or Adept Navigators with Sails?, Eva de Lourdes Edwards
Georgia Connections: Caribbean Indigenous Influence on Native Confederacies of the Southeastern United States, Melinda Maxwell-Gibb

15.00-15.15     BREAK

15.15-16.45     Plenary Roundtable, “Publishing Early America”
Chair: Kristina Bross

Sinéad Moynihan, Journal of American Studies
Jean O’Brien, Native American and Indigenous Studies (Co-editor, with Robert Warrior [Osage], 2013-2019)
Marion Rust, Early American Literature
Oliver Scheiding, Amerikastudien (Editor-in-chief, 2011-2019)
Gordon Hutner, American Literary History

16.45-18.00     Welcome to the Conference, Kristina Bross; Reception