Conference schedule - Loyalism and the Revolutionary Atlantic World

Loyalism and the Revolutionary Atlantic World
University of Maine, Orono
June 4-7, 2009

Organizational Notes:
Most conference events will take place at the University of Maine in Orono, 12 miles north of Bangor. Free shuttle van service will be provided to presenters from the Bangor International Airport (BGR) and bus station (Concord Coach Lines has superior service from Boston, Logan airport, and Portland: http://www.concordcoachlines.com/maine_bus_schedule.htm)

Participants will be provided with lodging at the University Inn Academic Suites, adjacent to campus, which includes an expanded continental breakfast. Most papers will be delivered at the Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall. The walk there from the hotel takes about 25 minutes, shuttle van service will also be available. On the afternoon of Saturday, June 6 we will travel to the coastal town of Castine (75-minutes away) for a panel, walking tour of loyalist sites, & banquet.

Betsy Arntzen is overseeing logistical plans, please contact her regarding travel, lodging, or any special needs (email: barntzen@umit.maine.edu, phone: 207.581.4225).

Thursday, June 4
Optional Pre-Conference Discussion (1:00-3:00)
Professors Calhoon and Davis will lead a discussion of their forthcoming book (Robert M. Calhoon, Timothy M. Barnes, and Robert Scott Davis, eds., Tory Insurgents: The New “Loyalist Perception and Other Essays” [University of South Carolina Press, 2009]) with graduate students in a loyalism seminar taught by Liam Riordan that is running parallel to the conference. All conference participants are welcome to attend and participate in this session. If you have an interest in leading another session with graduate students on the shoulder days of the conference please contact Liam (riordan@umit.maine.edu).

Opening Session (4:00-6:30)

Jeff Hecker (Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Maine)
Welcome

Plenary Lectures

Maya Jasanoff (Harvard University)
“‘Notes on the Historiography of Loyalism’ Revisited”

15-minute break between papers

Philip Gould (Brown University)
“What is an Author?: Loyalists Respond to Common Sense”

Cocktails & Dinner: University Club, Fogler Library, University of Maine

Keynote Lecture
Robert Calhoon (University of North Carolina-Greensboro)
“Loyalist Historians Come in Pairs”

Friday, June 5

Panel 1 (8:30-10:00) Loyalism and Trans-Atlantic Allegiance

Keith Mason (University of Liverpool)
“The American Loyalist Problem of Identity in the Revolutionary Atlantic World”
John G. Reid (St. Mary’s University)
“Imperial-Aboriginal Friendship in Eastern British America, 1775-1815”
chair and comment: Elizabeth Mancke (University of Akron)

Coffee Break (10:00-10:30)

Panel 2 (10:30-12:30) Loyalism and Warfare

Todd W. Braisted (Independent Scholar, Royal Provincial Research)
“The Americanization of the American War”
Timothy Compeau (University of Western Ontario)
“‘A Captivity So Much to be Dreaded’:
Loyalists, Honour, and Imprisonment in Revolutionary Connecticut”
Robert S. Davis (Wallace State College)
“The March of the Scoffelites: Loyalism on the Frontier and the Failure of British Military Policy in the Southern Colonies”
Gary Hughes (New Brunswick Museum)
“A Durable Legacy: The Transfer of Loyalist Militaria from New York to New Brunswick”
chair and comment: Stephen Miller (University of Maine)

Lunch at Barrows Hall (12:30-1:30)

Panel 3 (1:30-3:30) Objects and Owners:
The Symbolic Meanings of Loyalist Property during the Revolution

Edward M. Griffin (University of Minnesota)
“After the Siege: The Two Trials of Mather Byles”
Edward Larkin (University of Delaware)
“Securing Possession of the Nation: Loyalism and the Legitimacy of Patriot Property”
Katherine Rieder (Harvard University)
“Protecting Possessions: American Loyalists and the Meaning to Things”
chair and comment: Philip Gould (Brown University)

30-minute break

Panel 4 (4:00-6:00) Protestantism, Loyalty, and Politics

Brad A. Jones (California State University Fresno)
“Founding Traitor: Benedict Arnold, Protestantism, & Loyalist Political Culture in the Revolutionary Atlantic”
Allison O’Mahen Malcom (University of Illinois-Chicago)
“Anti-Revolutionary Ideology, Memory, & the Paradoxes of Orange Loyalism in Upper Canada”
Allan Blackstock (University of Ulster)
“‘Papineau-O’Connell Instruments’: Irish Loyalism and Trans-Nationalism in the 1837
Rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada”
chair and comment: Scott See (University of Maine)

Bear’s Den (Memorial Student Union)
Concert: Stephen Sanfilippo (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
Loyalist Laments and the Music of Rebellion
cocktails and hors d’oeuvres
Dinner (on your own here or in downtown Orono)

Saturday, June 6

Panel 5 (8:15-10:15) Loyalism in Motion

Bradford J. Wood (Eastern Kentucky University)
“Traveling Loyalties: James Murray in Britain, North Carolina, and Massachusetts”
Gwendolyn Davies (University of New Brunswick)
“Loyalist Printers as Editors of Cultural Transfer in the Maritime Provinces”
Bonnie Huskins (University of New Brunswick)
“‘Shelburnian Manners’ or Something More?:
Another Look at Loyalist Sociability in Port Roseway, Nova Scotia”
chair and comment: Robert Calhoon (University of North Carolina-Greensboro)

Coffee Break (10:15-10:45)

Panel 6 (10:45-12:45) Loyalism, Slavery and Afro-Britons

Harvey Amani Whitfield (University of Vermont)
“Loyalist Slaves in Nova Scotia”
Jennifer K. Snyder (University of Florida)
“American Revolutionary Repercussions:
Tracing Free and Enslaved Loyalist Slaves Throughout the Deep South”
Carole Watterson Troxler (Elon University)
“Uses of the Bahama Islands by Southern Loyalist Exiles”
chair and comment: Maya Jasanoff (Harvard University)

Lunch at Barrows Hall (12:45-1:30)

75-minute drive to the Castine Historical Society

Panel 7 (3:15-5:15) The Migration of Cultures: Loyalists in the Maritimes

David Bell (University of New Brunswick)
“The Migration of Legal Ideas into Loyalist New Brunswick”
Darrell Butler (King’s Landing Historic Site, New Brunswick)
“Architecture and Furniture: Defining Identity in Loyalist New Brunswick”
Margaret Conrad (University of New Brunswick)
“A Gentleman in the Wilderness:
Edward Winslow’s Loyalist Legacy in Colonial New Brunswick, 1783-1815”

chair and comment: James Leamon (Bates College)

Walking Tour of Castine (5:15-6:00)

Conference Banquet at the Castine Inn (6:15)

Sunday, June 7

Panel 8 (9:00-11:00) Loyalism in the Mid-Atlantic

Susan Garfinkel (Library of Congress/University of Maryland-College Park)
“Philadelphia Quakers and the Loyalty Oath of 1777: Mapping the Politics of Belief”
Ruma Chopra (San Jose State University)
“Loyalist Persuasions: The Case of New York City”
Aaron (Nathan) Coleman (Kentucky Christian University)
“Whig Ideology and Loyalist Reintegration in New Jersey”

chair and comment: Liam Riordan (University of Maine)

Coffee (11:00-11:15)

Concluding Session (11:15-12:00)

Cassandra Pybus (University of Sydney)
“All the King’s Men: The Many Faces of Loyalism”