[Hum_Calendar_Events] Conference Announcement: The British Atlantic in an Age of Revolution and Reaction: From Boston to Peterloo and Tea Party to Massacre, Oct 24-25

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The British Atlantic in an Age of Revolution and Reaction: From Boston
to Peterloo and Tea Party to Massacre


Part 1 - The American Crisis

 

Friday, October 24 - Saturday, October 25

 

In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

 

A conference at the Clark Library directed by Saree Makdisi and Michael
Meranze, Center and Clark Professors, 2008-09

 

>From Boston to Peterloo proposes a renewed examination of the British
Atlantic in the great age of revolutionary upheaval and
counter-revolutionary resurgence that spanned the decades between the
American Revolution and the triumph of British imperial reaction at the
end of the Napoleonic period. It is our contention that the upsurge of
utopian thinking and practice at the end of the eighteenth century
cannot be considered simply against the backdrop of the French
Revolution. Instead, it must be seen to have emerged in the aftermath of
the first great crisis of the British Empire and to have confronted a
political terrain dominated by the power of an immensely creative (but
retrenching) British elite. In the interplay between the ideals of
radical America and radical London, on the one hand, and the powers of
authority, on the other, the great efforts of a new utopian literary and
political imagination (Romanticism, Paineite radicalism, feminism, and
early socialism) took shape.

 

The American Crisis will focus less on the American War itself than on
its consequences in the 1780s and after. The loss of the American
colonies led to a searching reconsideration of imperial governance that
led not only to new interventions in India but to a rise in anti-slavery
organization and a renewed challenge to the power of slaveholders in the
British Caribbean. In the United States, of course, what has long been
known as the "critical period" included plebeian upheaval, intense
political and economic debate, and the initial stirrings of efforts to
create a national literary culture. Concluding with the ratification of
the Federal Constitution of 1787-1788 and the first news of the spread
of revolutionary ideals in France, the decade marks the earliest effort
to grapple with the new world of modern revolutions.

 

Registration Deadline: September 26, 2008

 

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID:
no charge*

*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the
registration form.

Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

 

To register, please visit:

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm

 

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration
closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we
will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach
capacity.


 


Schedule:


 

Friday, October 24

Please note there is no morning session on Friday, October 24.

 

1:30 P.M.         Peter H. Reill, UCLA

                        Welcoming Remarks

 

                        Saree Makdisi, UCLA

                        Introductory Remarks

 

                        Session 1: War, Violence, and Independence

 

                        Sarah Crabtree, UCLA Ahmanson-Getty Fellow

                        The Church Militant: The Quakers Go to War

 

                        Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire

                        The Making of American Independence

 

                        Christian Thorne, Williams College

Virginia Will Burn: Goths, Romans, and Imperial Crisis in the Atlantic

 

5:00 P.M.         Reception

 

 

Saturday, October 25

 

9:30 A.M.        Morning Coffee

 

10:00 A.M.      Session 2: American Crisis, Cultural Crisis

 

                        Harriet Guest, University of York

                        The Death of James Cook and the American Crisis

 

                        Sarah Knott, Indiana University

Sensibility and the 'Critical Period'

 

12:00 P.M.       Lunch

 

1:30 P.M.         Session 3: The Ancient Regime in the Revolutionary Age

 

                        Catherine Molineux, Vanderbilt University

                        Race, Slavery, and the American Revolution in
Britain, 1780-1807

 

                        Philip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University

The West Indies during the American Revolutionary Era

 

Michael Meranze, UCLA

Closing Remarks

 

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