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)