26th Annual Conference, Day 3
“Material Worlds/Virtual Worlds: the Physical and the Digital in Vast Early America”
June 17-19, 2021
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Program for Saturday, June 19, 2021
9:00
Registration Zoom Room opens. (Stop by and say Hello to Conference Registrar Beverly Smith, ask questions, and get help here.)
10:00-11:00
Session 15: ZOOM ROOM 1
Lightning Rounds: Mapping Policy
Cynthia Van Zandt (University of New Hampshire)
“Transatlantic English Politics in Indigenous Spaces”
William Schmidt (Independent Scholar)
“The Rileys, the Network, Indian Policy, and Land”
Session 16: ZOOM ROOM 2
Lightning Rounds: Material Culture
George Elliott (Brown University)
“Alchemy & Architecture: The Place of Gershom Bulkeley’s 17th c Laboratory within his New England Home”
Morgan McCullough (William & Mary)
“Cloth, Bodies, and Race: Enslaved Women in the Early American South”
Joanne Jahnke Wagner (University of Minnesota)
“Violence and the Material Archive”
Case Study: “Building the Flowerdew Hundred Archaeological Archive in DAACS: Analyzing Legacy Documentary Data to Understand the Emergence of Enslaved Societies at Flowerdew Hundred Plantation”
Elizabeth Bollwerk (presenting)
Jillian Galle
Lynsey Bates
Leslie Cooper
Fraser Neiman
11:30-1:00
Session 17: ZOOM ROOM 1
Leading Story: “Interpreting the Early American Indigenous Landscape: Using Big Data, GIS Technology, and Oral Tradition to Change the Narrative”
Buck Woodard (American University), Chair/Comment
Julia A. King (St. Mary’s College of Maryland)
“Revealing the Rappahannock Indian Landscape”
Scott M. Strickland (Project Archaeologist/GIS Manager, St. Mary’s College of Maryland)
“Viewshed Analysis and the Importance of Visibility in the Native Chesapeake Landscape”
Jolene Smith (Virginia Department of Historic Resources)
“Opening* Archaeological Archives: Public Archaeology Futures and Challenges”
Ashley Glassburn (University of Windsor)
“Decolonial Dreaming while Investing in Colonial Archives: searching for a home for Myaamia language files”
2:00-4:00
Session 18: ZOOM ROOM 1
“Race and Slavery in the Dutch Atlantic”
Dienke Hondius (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Chair/Comment
Danny Noorlander (SUNY Oneonta)
“Euro-African Intimacy on the Gold Coast in the 1640s: The Case of Jacob Steendam”
Nicole Maskiell (University of South Carolina)
“Dutch Masters: Family, Slavery, and the Survival of Dutch Elite Merchant Networks”
Michael Douma (Georgetown University)
“Estimating the Size of the Dutch-Speaking Slave Population of New York in the 18th c.”
Session 19: ZOOM ROOM 2
Roundtable: “Naming and Colonial Appropriation”
Paul Musselwhite (Dartmouth College), Chair/Comment
Brad Wood (Eastern Kentucky University)
“The Digital Lives of Place Names in British America, c. 1650-1740”
Mary Draper (Midwestern State University)
“The Language of Wind in the Early Modern British Caribbean”
Jack Bouchard (Folger Library)
“Recovering Lost Seascapes: Maritime place-names and geographies in the 15th & 16th c. Atlantic”
Margaret Williamson (Dartmouth College)
“Men, Stallions and Other Animals: Animal and Slave Naming in 18th-Century Jamaica”
Kaila Knight Schwartz (William & Mary)
“Same Name, Different Meaning: What Can a Name Tell Us about Embedded Assumptions?”
Session 20: ZOOM ROOM 3
“Visualizing Slavery: Digital Humanities Techniques in Analyzing Abolitionism and Fugitivity in Vast Early America”
Emily M.N. Kugler (Howard University), Chair/Comment
Jessica Parr (Simmons University)
“Using data visualization to trace the writings of Black intellectuals”
Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University)
“Seeing Null: Data and Black Life in Colonial Louisiana”
Christy Hyman (University of Nebraska)
“Using geospatial technique to map fugitivity in the Great Dismal Swamp”
Session 21: ZOOM ROOM 4
“Anglicization of and through Law: British North America, Ireland, and India Compared, 1540-1800”
- Jennifer Wells (George Washington University), Chair
- Richard Ross (University of Illinois)
- Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College, Dublin)
- Philip Stern (Duke University)
Comments:
- Jennifer Wells (George Washington University)
- Paul Halliday (University of Virginia)
- Andrew Mackillop (University of Glasgow)