7:30–8:30 a.m.
Breakfast, De La Guerra Dining Commons. The cost of breakfast
is included in all the housing packages for people who are staying on campus.
If you are staying elsewhere, you may buy breakfast at the door for $10.00,
payable by credit card only, or eat on your own.
8:30
Conference registration and book exhibits
open in the Multicultural Center Lounge.
8:30–10:30
• Session 9 • New Perspectives
on Iroquois Diplomacy after the American Revolution
Flying A Room, University Center (UCEN)
Chair: Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis
Haudenosaunee Border Crossings: Space, Place, and Identity, 1672–1760
Jon W. Parmenter, Cornell University
Oneida Aspirations to Landlordship in the Early Republic
Karim M. Tiro, Xavier University
Black Cap and the Onondagas’ Declaration of Independence
Michael Leroy Oberg, State University of New York, Geneseo
Comment: David Preston, The Citadel
• Session 10 • Their
Brothers’ Keepers? Euro–American Siblings and Gender in the Revolutionary
Era
Harbor Room, University Center (UCEN)
Chair: Anne Lombard, California State University, San Marcos
“Your Affectionate Brother”: Complementary Manhoods in the Letters
of John and Timothy Pickering
John Gilbert McCurdy, Moravian College
Siblings, Gender, and Obligation in the Revolutionary Era: A Macro View
C. Dallett Hemphill, Ursinus College
Comment: Lorri Glover, University of Tennessee
• Session 11 • Social
Imaginaries and their Media in the Eighteenth Century
State Street Room, University Center (UCEN)
Chair: Robert C. Ritchie, The Huntington Library
Letter Writing and Bourgeois Recognitions of Power in Early America: The
Colonial, the Imperial, the Atlantic, and the Global
Konstantin Dierks, Indiana University
Franklin, Saur, and the Exclusionary Politics of Print
Patrick M. Erben, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Noah Webster’s Foundations: The Charitable Society and the Language
of Commerce
Eric Wertheimer, Arizona State University
Comment: Caroline Winterer, Stanford University
• Session 12 • Slaves,
Slavery, and Social Control in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Multicultural Center Theater
Chair: Philip D. Morgan, The Johns Hopkins University
The Architecture of Slavery in Louisiana
Shannon Lee Dawdy, University of Chicago
Americanization and Becoming Creole: The Development of an African American
Community in Early Natchez
Timothy R. Buckner, University of Texas, Austin
Comment: Daniel H. Usner, Vanderbilt University
10:30–11:00 • Coffee Break. Lagoon Patio, University Center (UCEN)
