Thursday, February 25
3:00-6:00 Registration
6:00-7:15 Reception

7:30 Keynote address:  Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin:  Jesuits and the Early-Modern Global Imagination:  The Case of Quito, c. 1750

Friday, February 26

8:30-10:15 Session 1
1 A ROUNDTABLE Nationalism, Republicanism, Abolitionism:  The Americas in the Age of Revolution

Panel sponsored by ARENA, Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas

Chair: Bernard Powers, College of Charleston: 

• Don H. Doyle, University of South Carolina
• Hilda Sabato, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Matthew Childs, University of South Carolina

• Kenneth G. Johnson, United States Military Academy: Vendee to Saint-Domingue: Logistical Deficiencies of the French Navy
• C. Thomas Long, George Washington University: The British Royal Navy's Green Water Revolution (1776-1778 on the Southern Chesapeake): Too Big, Too Late
• Kevin D. McCranie, Naval War College: Dominant to the End? The British Navy in the Late Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812

• William L. Chew, III, Vesalius College, Brussels, Belgium: James Price: American Eyewitness of the “Second French Revolution”
• Pieter François, Royal Holloway College, University of London and Ghent University: Where did British Writers of Travel Guides on the Continent Get their Information?  The Transnational Context of Information Gathering by Travel Writers in Post-revolutionary Europe (1815-36)
• Michele A. Kinney, University of Texas at Arlington: The Curious Case of the British Foreign Office and Mrs. Davidson:  A Potential Diplomatic Landmine in Anglo-American Abolition Relations (1845)

• Jeffrey D. Burson, Macon State College:  Renovation of Ancient Materialism and the Radical Catholic Enlightenments of abbé Claude Yvon
• Varad Mehta, Independent Scholar:  “Lightning in Vast Shadows”: Sparta and the Reign of Terror
• Dean Kostantaras, Northwestern University:  Merchants and “Moral Revolution” in Contemporary Schemes (and Reconstructions) of National Awakening (Balkans)

• Simon Hill, Liverpool John Moores University, UK:  British Imperial Policy-Making:  Liverpool and the American Revolution
• David N. Woodworth, Johns Hopkins University: Napoleon and the Bourse: Policing Financial Speculation and Public Opinion during the French Consulate

• Leora Auslander, University of Chicago
• Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University
• Stefan Dudink, Radbound University, Nijmegen
• Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Sarah Chambers, University of Minnesota

• Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas: General Yorck’s ‘Robber Bands:’ The Collapse of Allied Discipline on the Road to Paris, 1814
• Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University-Shreveport: The Russian Eagles on the Seine: Russian Occupation of Paris, 1814
• Llewellyn Cook, Jacksonville State University: 1814 Denouement: Austrians Enter Paris

• Brecht Deseure, University of Antwerp, Belgium:  Revolutionizing the Past:  The Paradoxes of Local History in French Revolutionary Discourse
• Melissa Geiger, East Stroudsburg University: Combating Change:  Thomas Cole and the Nostalgic American Landscape
• Cindy Ermus, Florida State University: The Good Friday Fire of 1788: Implications of a Disaster in Spanish Colonial New Orleans

• June K. Burton, University of Akron, Emerita:  Lafayette’s Early Years: Wunderkind, Wanderlust, and Gloire
• Neal Polheums, South Carolina Historical Society:  “Celebrating the Cause”: Memory, Liberty, and Lafayette in America in 1824-25
• Robert Rhodes Crout, College of Charleston:  Lafayette’s Other Tours: America, 1784 and France, 1829

• Daniel Heimmermann, University of Texas at Brownsville:  Status, Skill, and Identity in the Eighteenth-Century French Trades:  The Bordeaux Shoe Carnival, 1772-1791
• Megan Conway, Louisiana State University – Shreveport:  Patriotism to the Rescue: Olympe de Gouges’s Proposed Political Reforms of 1788
• Tim Best, Florida State University: A Nascent Beginning?: The French Economy, Industrialization, and Foreign Trade

• Scott Eastman, Creighton University:  The Sins of Women and the Ruin of the Nation:  Gender and Identity during the wars of Independence across the Spanish Monarchy
• Curtis Richardson, Northwest Missouri State University: Domestic Violence and Domesticity in the 1830s and 1840s:  the Russian Intelligentsia, Intimacy, and National Identity
• Maureen MacLeod, Florida State University:  Qui est Marianne?  Aristocratic Women’s Constructs of Identity in Revolutionary France, 1787-1799

• Charlotte A. Lerg, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich: High Hopes of Revolution: Transatlantic Exchange of Ideas in 1848
• Heléna Tóth, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich:  National Costumes in Gaslight: Performing the Revolution of 1848 in the United States
• Michael Boyden, University of Ghent:  The Representation of the Revolutions of 1848/49 in the Reminiscences of Carl Schurz and Henry Villard

• Derek R. Miller, College of William and Mary and R. Grant Gilmore, III,  St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research:  The Jewish Merchants of St. Eustatius: A Diasporic People’s Contribution to the American War of Independence
• Barry Stiefel, College of Charleston: Jews Taking up Arms During the Age of Revolution: An Atlantic World Perspective

• Huw J. Davies, King’s College London: Wellington's First and Final Commands: The Political Level in Military Operations, 1800-1818
• William Anthony Hay, Mississippi State University:  Friends, Rivals, Allies:  George Canning, Lord Liverpool and late Georgian Politics
• Kirsty Montgomery, University of Chicago:  Paternalism, Politics and the Potato: Examining the True Impact of Wellington’s Policies in Government 1809-1830

• Carol Ann Băchl Dennis, Auburn University:  An Invitation to Tea:   Ritual and Identity in the British Atlantic World
• Rebecca Brannon, University of South Carolina, Aiken: Atrocity Tales as a Coping Tool in the Service of Revolution
• Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley, New Jersey City University: “A most unconquerable magnanimity of spirit”: Between a State of Coercion and the Battlegrounds of Lexington and Concord from the Pen of Mercy Otis Warren

• Charles Lipp, University of West Georgia: “Bestowed a Kingdom and Denied Bread: King Theodore of Corsica in the British Imagination”
• Jonathan Awtrey, University of West Georgia:  A Classical Idiom as Intellectual Framework for Rebellion, Revolution, and the Creation of an American Political Identity, 1770-1776
• Mark Jones, University of West Georgia:  Editorial Reactions in South Carolina to the Haitian Revolution

• Paul Lee, Texas A&M University:  Gender, Politics, and Identity in the Occupied Territory of Boston, 1768-1770
• Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst:  “Console yourselves, the thunder of war is extinguished”:  Gender and Visions of Peace in Napoleonic and Early Restoration France
• Martina Lüke, University of Hamburg / University of Connecticut:  Jewish, German, Women:  Rahel Levin Varnhagen and the Anti-Napoleonic Wars, 1806-1815

• Jay M. Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Christopher Clark, University of Connecticut
• Tom Kaiser, University of Arkansas – Little Rock

• Saskia Hanselaar, Independent Scholar: Ossian, or the Melancholic Savage: a New Way of Expressing Nature
• Rachael Lindheim, City University of New York:  Imperial Aesthetics: Théodore Chassériau’s Hybrid Classicism
• David O’Brien, University of Illinois: Civilization and Barbarism as Themes in Delacroix’s Late Work

• Daniel Mandell, Truman State University: “A Natural & Unalienable Right”: The Revolution and African American Liberation in New England
• Margaret Gillikin, University of South Carolina: Free People of Color and St. Philip’s Protestant Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina: 1790-1822
• Eric W. Rose, University of South Carolina:  Freedom by Degrees: Race and Urban Independence in the Early American Republic

• Padhraig Higgins, Mercer County College:  Paddy’s Resource: Irish National Identity and the Public Sphere
• Jennifer Davis, University of Oklahoma: To Make a Revolutionary Cuisine: Gender and Politics in French Kitchens, 1789-1799.
• Mary Faulkner, Pennsylvania State University:  Vandals at the Gilded Gates:  Preservation and Conservation in Revolutionary France

• J. Mark Alcorn, St. Cloud State University:  James Wilson on the Authority of the British in North America
• Joshua Piker, University of Oklahoma: The Last Refuge of a Governor: Indian Country, Imperial Reform, and the Career of James Glen
• Carole Watterson Troxler, Elon University, Emerita:  Beyond the Reach of His Majesty?  Two Granville, County, North Carolina, Challengers of Local Corruption c. 1765

• Leighton James, University of Swansea: “An honourable man”: Masculinity, the Body and Career Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars in Germany and Austria 
• Charles Ludington  University of Chapel Hill at North Carolina: Masculinity, War and Wine in Britain, 1780-1820

• Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania:  Michel Ney, Diplomat: General Ney’s 1802 Mission to Switzerland
• J. David Markham, International Napoleonic Society:  From Malmaison to Aix, Napoleon’s Last Days in France

• Karen Breuer, Ithaca College:  Contesting Freedom and Fatherland:  Burschenschaft Alumnae in the German Revolutions of 1848
• James J. Kirschke, Villanova University: Becoming Revolutionary:  The Development of the American Rebellion in Late Colonial Georgia
• Jennifer E. Steenshorne, Papers of John Jay, Columbia University:  Social Clubs in Revolutionary Era New York City

• Peter Hicks, Fondation Napoléon and Bath University: Late 18th - and early 19th-century British Biographies of Napoleon: Myth and History
• Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University:  Napoleon, Genius
• Alexander Mikaberidze, LSU Shreveport:  Napoleon and the Russian Romantics

• Eva Gratta, City University of New York, Graduate Center: Imaging/Imagining the American Revolution: Franz Habermann’s La Destruction de la Statue Royale a Nouvelle Yorck and the Transatlantic Dialogue of Print Culture in the Revolutionary Era
• Michael S. Stevens, California College of the Arts: A Moral Lesson from the Harem: Folkloric Orientalism in the Early Nineteenth Century
• Ronen Steinberg, Michigan State University:  Seeing Terror in Post-Revolutionary France: On Robertson’s Phantasmagoria

• W. Stephen Belko, University of West Florida:  The Philadelphia Free Trade Convention of 1831
• Stephen Meardon, Bowdoin College:  Negotiating free trade in theory and fact: the doctrine and diplomacy of Condy Raguet
• Simon Morgan, Leeds Metropolitan University:  American protectionism and the British Corn Laws, c. 1824-1846

• Gloria Main, University of Colorado Boulder: Gender, Child Labor, and the Economic Revolution in New and Old England, 1750-1850
• Ruth Watterson, Harvard University:  Elopement Advertisements and the Regulation of the Household in Revolutionary-era America and Ireland
• Louis Ruprecht , Georgia State University: Winckelmann and Casanova in Rome: A Case Study in Religion and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome

• Katie Hornstein, University of Michigan:  Horace Vernet’s “Panoramic” Battle Paintings and Modes of Engaged Spectatorship during the July Monarchy
• Andrew Shelton, Ohio State University, Achille Devéria’s Quatre Sergents de La Rochelle (1822)
• Cyril Lécosse, University of Grenoble:  Bonapartist Propaganda from the Pencil of Isabey: An Attempt to Legitimize 18 Brumaire

• Bette Oliver, Independent Scholar:  From Paris to the Ohio Frontier:  A Case of Cultural Dissonance
• Robert Alderson, Georgia Perimeter College: Memory and Gratitude: Charleston and the Early Years of the French Revolution

• Matthew Childs, University of South Carolina: “The Revolution Against the French”: Competing Notions of Race, Patriotism, and Identity in the 1809 Riot in Havana”
• Ernesto Bassi, University of California, Irvine: Caribbean Encounters:  The Guajira Peninsula and its Wayuu Inhabitants during the Age of Revolution, 1769-1803
• Dennis R. Hidalgo, Virginia Tech:  “The Immigrations that the American and Haitian Revolutions Created”

• Mette Harder, SUNY-Oneonta: La garantie des representants du peuple n'est qu'un mot: Violence against Conventionnels and the Debate on Parliamentary Immunity in the Year III
• Micah Alpaugh, University of California, Irvine: Parisian Political Demonstrations in the Year III: Alternatives to Physical Violence in the Germinal and Prairial Movements
• Antoine Renglet, University of Namur, Belgium:  Surveillance Committees in Occupied Belgium, 1794-1795: A Revolutionary Police Reconsidered

• Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina: Engineers with Borders: The Politics of Importing Engineering Institutions
• Hayden R. Smith, University of Georgia:  Forgotten Fields: South Carolina Lowcountry Inland Rice Cultivation in the Revolutionary Era
• Patricia R. Perrella, Florida State University:  The Enlightened Quest of Robert Fulton:  Encountering Naval Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe

• Patricia Reid, University of Dayton: The Haitian Revolution, Black Petitioners, and Refugee Widows in Maryland, 1796-1820
• Seth Meisel, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater: Women’s Petitions and Political Culture in Early Independence Argentina
• Margaret B. Crosby-Arnold, Howard University: “White” by the Sword:  Napoleon, the first Genihilation and the Deadly Birth of Modern Race

• Elizabeth Mansfield, New York University: Vincent’s Democritus among the Abderites and Revolutionary Politics c. 1790
• John Lambertson, Washington and Jefferson College: Guérin’s Classical Lithographs and Pedagogy
• Katie Hanson Iseman, City University of New York: Formal Fiction and Sublime Legacy: Jacques-Louis David and Classical Narrative in 1824

• Lee W. Eysturlid, The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy: The Military Principles of the Archduke Carl in the Context of His Intellectual Antecedents and His Military Reality
• Charles E. White, US Army Forces Command: The Philosophical Roots of Scharnhorst’s “Prussian Way of War”
• Robert Citino, University of North Texas: From Disgrace to Redemption: The Prussian Army at Eylau

• Anthony Crubaugh, , Illinois State University:  The Peasant at the Gates of Heaven:  The Religious Ideals of La Feuille villageoise in the French Revolution
• Sarah Lippert, Louisiana State University – Shreveport:  Brutal Reality Meets Supernatural Escapism: Anne-Louis Girodet and the Metamorphosis from Artist to Priest
• Maxmilian Owre, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: :The Making of a Post-Revolutionary Pariah:  The Case of Jacques-Antoine Manuel

• Emmanuel Berger, European University Institute:  How to control Criminal Justice under Napoleon?  The Stakes of Information Control (1799-1814)
• Maria Betlem Castellà i Pujols, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne: And They Controlled the Correspondence and Soon They Seized the Power . . . The Legislative Branch under the Constituent National Assembly
• Rachel Lambrecht, Emory University:  Empowering Politics: Crime, Justice, and Strategies of Authority in the Early Stages of State Formation in Argentina (1820)

• Itai Sneh, John Jay College:  Anti-Torture as the Core of Progressive Enlightenment: Beccaria’s Revolutionary Discourse
• Colin F. Wilder, University of Chicago: A Brief History of Inalienable Rights:  From the French Royal Demesnes to the Rights of Man
• Bryan Banks, Florida State University: Politics and Religion:  Napoleon and State-Sponsored Protestant Transformation

• Marc Lerner, University of Mississippi: The Radical Conceptions of Popular Sovereignty in Revolutionary Vaud
• Ellen Koehler, University of California, Davis: Religion, Political Culture and Radical Revolution in the Canton of Vaud
• David Lasater Ellis, Augustana College: Constitution as Revolution? Interpreting the Debate among Conservatives Regarding Prussia's Octroyed Constitution of 1848
• John Deak, Notre Dame: Channeling the Revolution after Kremsier: Stadion's Constitution of March 1849

• Paul Strietelmeier, University of North Texas): Ideology, Discipline and the Motivation to Kill: A Re-Evaluation of Turreau’s Colonnes Infernales
• Jonathan Abel, University of North Texas: Theory and Practice: Guibert and Napoleon Bonaparte’s First Italian Campaign
• Michael R. DeFeudis, Florida State University: The Evolution of Napoleon’s Operational Art: Bonaparte in Egypt, 1799

• Erica Johnson, Florida State University: “A Saint-Dominguan Public Sphere”
•  Tarah Luke, Florida State University: “‘A Brief and Accurate View of the Wonderful Bonaparte!’: New England/Mid-Atlantic Views of Napoleon, 1796- 1800”
• Edward Paul Pompeian, College of William and Mary: “Speculating on Revolution: The 1806 Leander Expeditionand Popular Visions of South American Liberation in the Early U.S. Republic”

• Edna Mueller, Independent Scholar:  A View from the Saddle:  Using Google Earth® to Interpret Napoleonic Sites
• Kevin Kiley, Independent Scholar: When Artillery was Crowned King:  French Artillery Reform and Innovation, 1763-1815

• Billy G. Smith, Montana State University: “The Vagabonds of All Nations”: The American Revolution and the Institutionalized Poor in the New Nation’s Capital
• Paul Sivitz, Montana State University: The Political Identity of the Scientific Community in Revolutionary America, 1763-1776
• Thomas J. Humphrey, Cleveland State University: Breaking the Ties that Bind: Property, Power, and Citizenship during the American Revolution

• Andrew Moore, University of Baltimore
• Evelyn Spratt, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland
• Robert Crout, College of Charleston