FEEGI 2010: Program
John Hope Franklin Center
Duke University, Durham, NC
18-20 February, 2010
Maps & Parking (PDF) • Registration & Local Information • Abstracts • Download Flyer (PDF)
Thursday 18 February
Arriving on Thursday? Come meet the program committee, members of the FEEGI executive committee and other conference attendees at an informal (no-host) gathering. We'll be at the Six Plates Wine Bar, about 1/2 mile from the conference hotel (map with hotel, bar, and Franklin Center). They serve small plates based on local food until late, so you can get dinner there if you choose. Look for the room in the back—we're certain to be there between 7:00pm-9:00pm.
Friday 19 February
Please download these two very useful maps highlighting all conference locations, with information on parking.
Registration and all panels on Saturday and Sunday will be in the John Hope Franklin Center. The Friday Reception will be on Duke University's West Campus at the Perkins Library, about a 10-minute walk away.
8:15–Registration
Coffee & light breakfast will be served.
8:45–Welcome
Alison Games, Georgetown University, President of FEEGI.
Circuits & Currents
9:00 - 11:00 Session One
The Itinerant Artist in an Age of Expansion: Cassas’s Mediterranean Gambit • Elizabeth Fraser, University of South Florida
Witsen & Sons: Local Power and Global Enterprise, 1600-1750 • Henriette De Bruyn Kops, Georgetown University
A Catholic Atlantic in a Protestant Empire: Seventeenth Century Missionary Circuits in the English Atlantic World • Shona Johnston, Georgetown University
Cultural Implications of Maritime Networks: Dutch Ivory Trade in Early Modern Japan • Martha Chaiklin, University of Pittsburgh
Chair: Carla Gardina Pestana, Miami University
Coffee Break
Allies & Enemies
11:30 - 1:00 Session Two
The Danish East India Company’s War against the Mughal Empire, or how the Factors of a European Chartered Company Plundered Bengali Ships • Kathryn Wellen, KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and
Caribbean Studies
Encountering the ‘Enemy’ on the Amazon Frontier • Nicholas Bomba, Princeton University
Caribbean Encounters: The Guajira Peninsula and its Wayuu Inhabitants during the Age of Revolution, 1769-1803 • Ernesto Bassi, University of California, Irvine
Chair: Linda M. Rupert, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Research & Technology Workshop
1:00 – 3:00 Lunch Program
Lunch will be provided.
From Shelves to Maps: Reconstructing Networks of Exchanges in the Early Modern Low Countries • Laura Cruz, University of Western Carolina
Chair: Laura J. Mitchell, University of California, Irvine
Ideas of Otherness
3:00 – 4:30 Session Three
Rome, Carthage and Shakespearean Migrations • Pompa Banerjee, University of Colorado, Denver
Remapping the Boundaries of the World: Indian Ocean and the New World in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Imperial and Geographical Consciousness • Pinar Emiralioglu, University of Pittsburgh
Maps, Myths, and Mentalities in the Discovery of Ethiopia and the African Kingdom of Prester John • Andrew Kurt, University of Western Carolina
Chair: Giancarlo Casale, University of Minnesota
Reception
6:00 – 7:30
Rare Books Room, Perkins Library, on Duke's West Campus. The reception will feature a small exhibit of related rare materials from the Perkins Library.
Saturday 20 February
Registration and all panels on Saturday and Sunday will be in the John Hope Franklin Center.
8:00 Registration
Coffee and light breakfast will be provided.
Local Politics
8:30 - 10:00 Session Four
Annexing Sindh: South Asian Merchants and British Imperialism • Matthew Cook, North Carolina Central University
Controlling the Tenant-Patron: Fante-British Relations on the Gold Coast, 1750-1807 • Ty Reese, University of North Dakota
“In Times of Hunger All Men Quarrel and All Have Reason”: The Politics of Food Shortage in Late Seventeenth-Century Florida • Amy Turner Bushnell, Brown University
Chair: Alison Games, Georgetown University
Coffee Break
Slaves, Markets, & Politics
10:30 - 12:00 Session Five
The Evil King and the Portuguese Rulers • Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University
The British Slave Trade and Spanish Sovereignty in the Eighteenth-Century Americas • Elena Schneider, Princeton University
The Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Windward Coast of Africa • Jelmer Vos, Old Dominion University
Chair: Dayo Nicole Mitchell, University of Oregon
Lunch & Business Meeting
The business meeting is open to all FEEGI members, and lunch will be provided for those who attend the meeting, which will feature elections for new members of the executive committee.
Identity Formation I
1:30 – 2:45 Session Six
“Those Who Camp at a Distance”: Native American Expansion into the Florida Interior • Andrew Frank, Florida State University
From Engagé to Habitant to Large-Scale Slaveholder: Tracing the Instability and Variability of Identity and Culture in 18th Century Creole Louisiana • Andreas Heubner, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Forging and Identity in the Colonial City: Havana • Katrina Gulliver, Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität
Chair: Mark Meuwese, University of Winnipeg
Identity Formation II
3:00 - 4:00 Session Seven
Otherworldly Colonizers: The African Dead in the Early Modern • Pablo Gomez, Vanderbilt University
Gender, Race and Freedom: Ambiguous Identities among the ‘Castle Slaves’ of the Gold Coast (Ghana) in the Era of the Slave Trade • Rebecca Shumway, University of Pittsburgh
Chair: Mark Meuwese, University of Winnipeg
Coffee Break
Science & Medicine
4:30 - 6:00 Session Eight
Natural History, Humoral Pathology and the Enigma of Tropical Nature: Disease Etiology and Early Expansion in West Africa, 1450 to 1500 • Hugh Cagle, Rutgers
Amerindian Doctors, European Practitioners, and the Making of Empiricism in the Sixteenth Century • Antonio Barrera-Osorio, Colgate
The Medicines Trade in the Portuguese Atlantic World: Dissemination of Plant Remedies and Healing Knowledge from Brazil, c. 1580-1830 • Timothy Walker, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Chair: Philip J. Stern, Duke University
Banquet & Keynote Address
7:00 – 9:30 pm
Alison Games, Georgetown University and outgoing FEEGI President, will offer brief and informal remarks on "A Tale of Two Massacres: Virginia (1622) and Amboyna (1623) in Comparative Perspective."
The banquet will be held at Dos Perros, a new Mexican restaurant in downtown Durham (additional fee required).
Acknowledgments
FEEGI greatly appreciates the generous support and co-sponsorship of multiple units at Duke University: the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, the Department of History, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Center for European Studies, and the Department of Romance Studies. FEEGI also thanks the UNC Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the Georgetown University Institute for Global History, the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge Publishing, and Maney Publishing/Terrae Incognitae for additional support.