Department of History

Early Modern Global History Seminar
2009-2010

Sponsored by the Georgetown Institution for Global History, Department of History, Georgetown University

(Chair: Alison Games— gamesa@georgetown.edu)

All seminars will meet on the Georgetown campus on Fridays from 3:30 to 5pm, followed by a social hour. Papers are circulated in advance. All graduate students, faculty members, and independent scholars are invited to attend.

Fridays, 3:30-5 (seminar) 5-6 (wine, cheese, snacks provided) in Mortara Center for International Studies Conference Room, 3600 N Street, NW, Washington, DC

If you are interesting in joining us please email aak469@georgetown.edu to be added to our listserv.

2009-2010 Early Modern Global History Seminar Schedule

September 18: Jordan Sand, Department of History, Georgetown University, "Property in Two Fire Regimes: Edo-Tokyo in the Seventeenth through Twentieth Centuries"

October 16: Jennifer Anderson, Department of History, Stony Brook University, “The Quest for Mahogany & the Globalization of the Tropical Timber Trade in the 18th Century”

November 13: Shona Johnston, Doctoral Candidate and Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow, Department of History, Georgetown University, " 'All the Popes Trinkets': Catholic Artifacts and Religious Practice in the English Atlantic World"

January 22: Zara Anishanslin, Patrick Henry Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, "Transatlantic Industry, Idleness and Protest: Weaving and Wearing Silk in the Age of Homespun"

February 26: Marcy Norton, Department of History, George Washington University, "A New Approach to Human-Animal Relationships: Modes of Interaction"

March 26: Justin Pope, Doctoral Candidate, George Washington University, "The 'Hand of Popery:' Exploring British Colonial Fears of an alliance between Catholics and Slaves, 1729-1743"

April 30: Philip J. Stern, Department of History, Duke University, "'Planting and Peopling Your Colony': The Global and the Local in an Early Modern Company-State"