Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies
Spring 2009 Schedule
All sessions are held on Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. in the Stephanie
Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil
Center for Early American Studies,
3355
Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets),
University of Pennsylvania.
A free buffet supper follows at 6:30 p.m.
20 January
Jeremy Popkin
Department of History, University of Kentucky
Was the French Abolition
of Slavery in 1794 Inevitable?
The Burning of Cap Français
(June 1793)
and the History of the Atlantic
World
17 February
Chi-ming Yang
Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
From China to Peru:
Chinoiserie as Global Culture
24 March
Herman L. Bennett
Department of History, Rutgers University
Slave Insurgents and the
Political Impact of
Free Blacks in the Revolutionary
Atlantic:
The Revolt of 1795 in Coro,
Venezuela
21 April
Lauren Benton
Department of History, New York University
Acquiring Empire by Law