King’s College London and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joint International (Post) Graduate Workshop
The Atlantic World in the Age of Revolutions, c. 1775–1830
London, Thursday, 30 May 2013
King’s College London, Strand, Old Council Room
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Program
Fifty years have passed since Robert Palmer and Jacques Godechot’s classic elaboration of a common transatlantic revolutionary experience at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This workshop aims to revisit the validity of the concept of an ‘Atlantic Revolution’ by applying the findings of researchers working in the field. The Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution is the second and final joint KCL-UNC (Post) Graduate Workshop organised within the framework of a larger ongoing KCL-UNC project devoted to the theme of trans-Atlantic interactions at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
8:30 am: Welcome Coffee
9:00 am: WELCOME: Michael Rowe (King’s College London, Department of History) and Karen Hagemann (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
9:15 – 10:45 am: Session I: THE MILITARY AND WAR
MODERATION: Wayne E. Lee (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
PARTICIPANTS:
- Thomas Sheppard (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
“To Save What’s Far More Important”: Honor and the American Naval Officer Corps in the Interwar Years, 1798–1811
- Mark Hay (King’s College London, Department of History)
The House of Nassau between France and Independence: Great Power Politics, Armed Forces, and Dynastic Networking
COMMENT: Andrew Lambert (King’s College London, Department of War Studies)
10:45 – 11:15 am: Coffee Break
11:15 am – 12:45 pm: Session II: WAR, CITIZENS AND SLAVES
MODERATION: Alan Forrest (University of York, Department of History)
PARTICIPANTS:
- Paul Shirley (University College London, Department of History)
Freedom and Slavery in the Age of Revolution: State Manumission in the Bahamas, 1787–1793
- John D. Roche (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
When the Ends Become the Means: The British Occupation of New York City, 1776–1783
COMMENT: Stefan Dudink (Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Gender Studies)
2:45 – 2:00 pm: Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:30 pm: Session III: LANGUAGE, RHETORIC AND POLITICS
MODERATION: Karen Hagemann (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
PARTICIPANTS:
- Gregory Mole (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
Republicanism Without a Republic: The Senatus-Consulte and the Creation of the Napoleonic Empire
- Stewart McCain (University of Oxford, Faculty of History)
Language and Empire under Napoleon: Marc-Joseph de Gratet Dubouchage in the Alpes-Maritimes, 1803-1814
COMMENT: Michael Rowe (King’s College London, Department of History)
3:45 – 4:00 pm: CONCLUDING REMARKS:
David Bell (Princeton University, Department of History)