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| 9:00 |
Welcome and Introductions
Professor Richard Ross, University of Illinois College of Law and History Department |
| 9:05 to 10:35 |
Opening Panel: The Ideology of Citizenship: Strategic Identities
"Ties Unbound: Membership and Community during the Wars of Independence: The Thirteen North-American Colonies (1776-1783) and New Spain (1808-1821)"
Erika Pani, History Faculty, CIDE, Mexico City
"Becoming an Absolute Citizen: The Counter-Experience of France"
Peter Sahlins, University of California (Berkeley) History Department
"Political Culture" and the Concept of Law as an Aspect of Early Modern Citizenship: Britain and Germany"
Mark Weiner, Rutgers-Newark Law
Commentator #1: Amalia Kessler, Stanford University Law School
Commentator #2: Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania Political Science Department
Chair: Bruce Smith, University of Illinois College of Law |
| 10:35 to 10:50 |
Refreshment Break |
| 10:50 to 12:20 |
Author-Meets-Readers Session
Tamar Herzog, Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America (New Haven, 2003)
Reader #1: Sarah Chambers, University of Minnesota History Department
Reader #2: Clare Crowston, University of Illinois History Department
Reader #3: Kunal Parker, Cleveland-Marshall Law School
Reader #4: A. Gregg Roeber, Pennsylvania State University History Department
Response: Tamar Herzog, Stanford University History Department
Chair: Claire Priest, Northwestern University Law School
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| 12:20 to 1:40 |
Lunch
Participants and audience members are invited to try the restaurants in the neighborhood around the Newberry. |
| 1:40 to 3:10 |
Panel: Liberties and Loyalties in Transatlantic Context
"Treacherous Places: Atlantic Riverine Regions and the Law of Treason"
Lauren Benton, NYU History Department
"A Tale of Two Unions: Nationhood and Citizenship in the Dutch Revolt and the American Revolution"
Douglas Bradburn, SUNY, Binghamton History Department
"Slaves, Strangers, and the Limits of Revolutionary Citizenship: The Jacobin Structure of Colonial Rule"
Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona History Department
Commentator #1: Max Edelson, University of Illinois History Department
Commentator #2: Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan History and Law
Chair: Richard Ross, University of Illinois College of Law and History Department |
| 3:10 to 3:25 |
Refreshment Break |
| 3:25 to 4:55 |
Panel: The Limits of Citizenship: Troublesome Peoples (Free Blacks, Jews, and Dependent Laborers)
"Colonial Manumission and the Citizenship Revolution in Saint-Domingue and British North America."
Malick Ghachem, MIT Political Science Department
"Navigating Nationhoods: The Jewish Moment in the British Atlantic World, 1654-1831"
Holly Snyder, Brown University Library
"Servants, Citizens and What Lies Between: European Migration and Civic Identity in Early Anglo-America"
Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation
Commentator #1: William Forbath, University of Texas Law and History
Commentator #2: Margaret Somers, University of Michigan Sociology
Chair: Dana Rabin, University of Illinois History Department |
| 5:00 |
Adjourn |
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