Below readers will find a conference programme for the second event in our Geographies of Power on Land and Water AHRC Network. Interested attendees can register here. Postgraduate students, adjuncts, and temporary members of staff will be asked to pay £25; permanent staff, associate professors, and members of the public will be asked to pay £35. This money will cover coffee and tea on all three days, and lunch on the 23rd and 24th.
Zones and Lines, Water and Land: New Conversations on Borders
Day 1: LINES?
22 May 2019
Wallace Lecture Theatre
Main Building, Park Place
Cardiff, CF10 3AT
1pm-5pm
1-2:15pm
Introductory remarks and introductions to each other
2:30-4:30pm
Panel: Rivers – Panel Comment: Rachel Herrmann
*Nathan Braccio, ‘Freshwater Boundaries: The Overlay of Indigenous and English Border Conflicts in 17th-century New England’
*Andrea Frohne, ‘Waterways of the 18th Century New York City African Burial Ground: New Approaches’
*Jane Thomas, ‘Borders and boundaries: salmon fishing rights and disputes in 18th century Scotland’
*Kim Gruenwald, ‘When a River is a Border: Commerce and Conflict in the Eighteenth-Century Ohio and Mississippi Valleys’
Day 2: ZONES?
23 May 2019
Main Building Council Chamber
Main Building, Park Place
Cardiff, CF10 3AT
9:30-5pm
Coffee
9:30-11am
Panel: Maps – Panel Comment: Kris Lane
*Melissa Morris, ‘Guiana and Geographies of Resistance’
*Linda Rupert, ‘Navigating Landscapes of Freedom and Geographies of Empire: Runaway Slaves in the Early Modern Circum-Caribbean’
†Lucas Kelley, ‘“It is right to mark our boundaries on the map”: Constructing and Enforcing Borders in the Tennessee and Cumberland River Valleys, 1791-1798’
Comment – Jessica Roney
11:15am-12:45pm
Panel: Coasts – Panel Comment: Andrew Lipman
*Oliver Walton, ‘Exploration and Encounter on the Shores of Early Modern New England: A Conversation about Indigenous and European Borders’
*Kelly Chaves, ‘Exploration and Encounter on the Shores of Early Modern New England: A Conversation about Indigenous and European Borders’
*Matthew Crow, ‘Early Modern Kelp Forests and the Methods of Legal Oceanography’
Lunch 12:45-1:50pm
1:50-3:20pm
Panel: Spaces – Panel Comment: Daniel Richter
†Stephanie Mawson, ‘Frontier Warfare in Seventeenth Century Northern Luzon’
Comment – Kris Lane
*Ian Tonat, ‘A Confusion of Borders: Contested Conceptions of Space and Colonial Crisis in the Upper Mississippi, 1700-1755’
*Jason Daniels, ‘Crafting Captivity: God’s Protecting Providence, Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal, and Negotiating the Vicissitudes of Contested Borderlands’
Coffee
3:30-5pm
Keynote – Lissa Wadewitz
‘The Nature of Borders: Pirates, Power, and Sovereignty in the Pacific World’
Optional Conference Dinner – evening
Day 3: MOVEMENT
24 May 2019
Main Building Council Chamber
Main Building, Park Place
Cardiff, CF10 3AT
9:45-2pm
9:45-11:15am
Panel: Migrants and Merchants – Panel Comment: Mark Williams
*Lawrence Hatter, ‘Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border’
†Ryan Langton, ‘King of the Irish Traders: George Croghan and Imperial Power on Colonial Pennsylvania’s Frontier’
Comment – Daniel Richter
*Travis Glasson, ‘Trans-Atlantic Subjecthood and Citizenship in an Age of New Borders, 1783-1789’
11:30am-1pm
Panel: Migrants and Fugitives – Panel Comment: Andrew Lipman
†Christy Davenport, ‘“Draining the Swamp:” Perceptions of the Great Dismal Swamp from Antebellum Days to Current Times’
Comment – Rachel Herrmann
*Adrian Finucane, ‘Borderland as Opportunity: Early Imperial Struggle on the Georgia-Florida Frontier’
*Roger Nichols, ‘Opportunity and Safety: American Indians and the US-Canadian Border’
Lunch – 1-2pm
† pre-circulated paper
* standard presentation
Rachel B. Herrmann 