April 5–6, 2012
I Hotel and Conference Center / 1900 South First Street, Champaign
Featured Speakers:
April 5 – 7:30 p.m.: Keynote Address by Marcus Rediker
(Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History, History, University of Pittsburgh)
“The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic History from Below”
April 6 –
8:45 a.m.: Keynote Address by Julia Clancy-Smith
(History, University of Arizona, and Woodrow Wilson Research Fellow, 2012)
“Barbary Coasts: How Mediterraneans Came to Be”
1:00 p.m. Keynote Address by Tony Ballantyne
(History, University of Otago, New Zealand)
“Water and the Dynamics of Colonial Domination in Southern New Zealand”
And presentations by IPRH Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows and UI scholars.
The full symposium schedule can be found here. (PDF Version)