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Seascapes, Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges
February 12 through 15, 2003
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Compiled by Debbie Ann Doyle and Brandon Schneider. Format by
Chris Hale.
Conference Organizers
Introduction, Abstracts, and Bios
POLITICAL AND IMPERIAL ORGANIZATION
Keynote Speaker
The Organization of
Oceanic Empires: The Iberian World in the Habsburg Period
Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota
Oceans and Empires:
Defining the Coastline: Eyewitness
Testimony and the Mapping of Spain's First American Possessions,
1492-1536
William D. Phillips, Jr., University of Minnesota
Oceans, Migrants, and the Character of Empires:
English Colonial Schemes in the Seventeenth Century
Alison Games, Georgetown University
Affinities and Empires:
Tales from the Pacific
Matt K. Matsuda, Rutgers University
Laws, Oceans, and Laws of Oceans
Oceans of Law: The Legal Geography of the
Seventeenth-Century Seas
Lauren Benton, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers
University
Lines of Plunder or Crucible
of Modernity? Toward a Legal History of the English-Speaking Atlantic,
1660-1825
Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire
Transgressive Exchange: Rewriting Atlantic
Law in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
Alan L. Karras, University of California at Berkeley
Questions of Ideology and Political Economy
Maritime Ideologies and Ethnic Anomalies:
Sea Space and the Structure of Subalternity in the Southeast Asian
Littoral
Jennifer L. Gaynor, University of Michigan
"The Ottoman –Discovery" of
the Indian Ocean in the Sixteenth Century: The Age of Exploration
from an Islamic Perspective
Giancarlo Casale, Harvard University
OCEANIC SOCIOLOGIES
Keynote Speaker
Littoral Society: The Concept and the
Problems
Michael N. Pearson, University of New South Wales
The Port City Environment
"Tavern of the Seas"? The Cape
of Good Hope as an Oceanic Crossroads during the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries
Kerry Ward, Rice University
A West African Cosmopolis: Elmina (Ghana)
in the Nineteenth-Century
Larry W. Yarak, Texas A&M University
Societies of the Sea
The Business of the Hajj: Seaborne Commerce
and the Movement of Peoples
Michael B. Miller, Syracuse University
A Work of Compassion?Dutch Slavery and slave
trade in the Indian Ocean in the Seventeenth Century
Markus P. Vink, State University of New York at Fredonia
South Asian Seafarers and Their Worlds,
c. 1870s to 1930s
Gopalan Balachandran, Graduate Institute of International
Studies, Geneva and the Delhi School of Economics
Pirates
Marking Water: Piracy and Property in the
Pre-Modern West
Emily Sohmer Tai, Queensborough Community College
The Pirate and the Gallows: An Atlantic
Theater of Terror and Resistance
Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh
Japanese Pirates and Sea Tenure in the
Seto Inland Sea of the Sixteenth Century: A Case Study of the
Murakami Kaizoku
Peter David Shapinsky, University of Michigan
CULTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SCIENTIFIC ISSUES
Keynote Speaker
Islands in the Making of an Atlantic Oceania,
1400-1800
John R. Gillis, Rutgers University
Oceans and Other Geographical Constructions
The Maritime Logic of Vietnamese History?
Hoi An's Trading World, c. 1550-1830
Charles Wheeler, University of California at Irvine
Transformations of East Asian Politics in
Maritime East Asia: A Comparison of the Ryūkyū
Kingdom, Taiwan, and Korea, 1600-2000
R. Bin Wong, University of California at Irvine
Democratization, 1789-92 and 1989-92:Global
Social Movements and Their Oceanic Connections
Patrick Manning, Northeastern University
Oceans and Identities
The Jews of Nineteenth Century Charleston:
Ethnicity in a Port City
Gemma Louise Romain, University of Southampton
Lascar Sailors and English Converts: The
Imperial Port and Islam in Late 19th Century England
Diane Liga Robinson-Dunn, University of Detroit
"That Turbulent Soil: Seafarers, the
–Black Atlantic," and the Shaping of Afro-Caribbean Identity
Alan Gregor Cobley, University of the West Indies, Cave
Hill Campus
Material Culture: Technological, Cultural, and Biological Exhanges
Vessels of Exchange: The Global Shipwright
in the Pacific
Hans Konrad van Tilburg, University of Hawaięi at Manoa
Patrons, Travelers, and Scientific
World Voyages, 1750-1850
Harry Liebersohn, University of Illinois
Traffick According to Their Own Caprice:
Trade and Biological Exchange in the Making of the Pacific World,
1766-1825
Wade Graham, University of California at Los Angeles
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