The Worlds of Lion Gardiner: Program



PROGRAM Friday, 20 March 8:15-9:00 a.m. Registration and coffee 9:00-9:15 a.m. Welcomes Ned Landsman, Stony Brook University Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center for Early American Studies 9:15-10:45 a.m. Session 1: CROSSING CULTURES: INHABITING THE DUTCH WORLD Chair: Alix Cooper, Stony Brook University Boundaries and Friendships in the Contested World of Trade Alison Games, Georgetown University Scots in Old and New Netherlands Esther Mijers, University of Reading Foreigners in a Dutch Colonial City Joyce Goodfriend, University of Denver Commentator: Evan Haefeli, Columbia University 10:45-11:15 a.m. Coffee break 11:15-12:45 p.m. Session 2: MAPPING BOUNDARIES AND BORDERS Chair: Cynthia Van Zandt, University of New Hampshire Mapping Interimperial Identity Christian Koot, Towson University “Their Private Business Let Them Agree, the Dutch for Him, the Englishman for Me”: Denizens of Inter-Colonial Trading Worlds in New Netherland and New England, 1624-1664 Kim Todt, Cornell University Status, Authority, and Exchange in the English Atlantic World Michael Lacombe, Adelphi University Commentator: Walt Woodward, University of Connecticut 12:45-2:00 p.m. Lunch ($15/person; pre-registration required) 2:00-3:45 p.m. Session 3: CULTURAL MEDIATORS AND BOUNDARY CROSSERS Chair: Christina Snyder, McNeil Center for Early American Studies Nathaniel Sylvester of Amsterdam and Shelter Island Mac Griswold, Sylvester Manor Project Cultural Brokers on the Long Island Frontier John Strong, Long Island University Women in the Dutch Atlantic Annette Cramer van den Bogaart, Stony Brook University The Role of Cultural Chameleons James Williams, Middle Tennessee State University Commentator: Faren Siminoff, Nassau Community College 3:45-4:15 p.m. Coffee and Tea 4:15-5:30 p.m. PROVOSTIAL LECTURE Chair: Jennifer Anderson, Stony Brook University The Love-Hate Relationship with Experts in the Early Modern Atlantic Karen Kupperman, New York University 5:30-6:15 p.m. Reception 6:15-8:00 p.m. Dinner ($55/person; pre-registration required) 8:00-9:00 p.m. CONCERT The Holland-America Line, 1609 Egidius Kwartet Saturday, 21 March 9:00-10:45 a.m. Session 5: FIGHTING WARS: ARMS AND ALLIANCES Chair: Andrew Lipman, University of Pennsylvania The Dutch-Mohawk Alliance Joanne van der Woude, Harvard University Algonkian Peoples and English-Dutch Rivalries Mark Meuwese, University of Winnipeg The Long Wake of the Pequot War Katherine Grandjean, College of Holy Cross Lion Gardiner’s Third Foot Gary Ralph, University of Delaware Commentator: Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center for Early American Studies 10:45-11:15 a.m. Coffee and Tea 11:15-12:45 Session 6: WRITING WARS:PERSPECTIVES ON GARDINER’S NARRATIVE Chair: Susan Scheckel, Stony Brook University Lion Gardiner and the Pequot Parallax Edward White, University of Florida American Mordecai Michael Householder, Southern Methodist University Cultural Crossings and Boundary Negotiations in the Anglo-Dutch World Sabine Klein, University of Maine, Farmington Commentator: Andrew Newman, Stony Brook University 12:45-2:00 p.m. Lunch ($15/person; pre-registration required) 2:00-3:15 p.m. PLENARY SESSION Chair: John Murrin, Princeton University A Reexamination of Lion Gardiner’s Role in the Pequot War Kevin McBride and David Naumec, University of Connecticut and Pequot Museum and Research Center Closing Comments: Ned Landsman and Andrew Newman


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