Friday, April 30, 2021

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gold-sugar-tobacco-the-stuff-of-the-early-modern-atlantic-world-tickets-145179581035

10:30-11:45 AM: Law, literature, and economics

Edward Holberton (Bristol), “Liberty, Law and Lyric in The Barbados Gazette”

Nathan Nikolic (Graduate Center), “Tobacco, Trade, and Utopia: Atlantic Coordinates of the English Social Imaginary on the Cusp of the English Civil Wars”

Feisal G. Mohamed (Yale), “Godly Mammon: The Logic of Anti-Monopolist Puritan Slaving”

12:30-1:45 PM: The cultural impact of commodities

Domna C. Stanton (Graduate Center), “Enslaved to Chocolate: Material Culture and Emergent Frenchness”

Valerie Forman (NYU), “Sugar and Enslaved People, Productivity and Aesthetics”

Eric B. Song (Swarthmore), “Bitumen: That Other Stuff of the Early Modern Atlantic”

2:00-2:45 PM: Dynamics of the slave trade and rivalry with Spain

John Donoghue (Loyola Chicago), “The Royal African Company, the ‘company of buccaneers’ and the ‘free trade in slaves’”

Herman L. Bennett (Graduate Center), “Representing ‘Black’ Stuff: Finance, Fiscal Crisis, Labor, & Early-Modern Political Economy”

3:15-4:00 PM (9:15-10:00 AM, Saturday, Auckland): Categories of emerging empire

Russ Leo (Princeton), “Spinoza’s Dream, Caribbean Slavery, and the Emergence of Political Economy”

Jonathan Scott (Auckland), “Agricultural Imperialism”