Episodes of unsuccessful European colonial initiatives have long occupied an awkward place in our understanding of the global expansion of European economic, military, and political power. They are usually portrayed as faltering first steps, wrong directions, or evolutionary dead ends in the genealogical tree of Europe’s rise to domination.
By examining a number of these “lost colonies,” spread across the world, over four centuries after 1450, and among many different political, cultural, and economic contexts, this conference hopes to challenge or at least to problematize the “rise of the west.” Focusing attention on the many cases in which European colonial enterprises did not achieve their purpose can begin both to illuminate the many difficulties that confronted European expansionism and to open the larger historical narrative of western expansion to new questions and perspectives.
Conference papers will be pre-circulated and should be read by all who plan to attend. Those who preregister for the conference will be provided free Web access to the papers beginning in February 2004. Paper copies will also be available at a modest cost.
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Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street (click here for map)
Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center for Early American Studies/University of Pennsylvania
Robert Olwell, University of Texas
The Archaeology of Elizabeth’s Empire
Eric Klingelhofer, Mercer UniversitySt. Croix Island—Lost and Found
Steven R. Pendery, National Park ServiceAlmost Lost: The Remarkable Forts of Bermuda, 1612-1622Norman F. Barka and Mark Kostro, College of William and MaryComment: Marley Brown, Colonial Williamsbrug Foundation
Cassatt House, 1320 Locust Street, Philadelphia (click here for map)
Terrace Room, Logan Hall, University of Pennsylvania Campus
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Lost in Atlantic Space: Colonizing and Maritime Intelligence, 1450-1650
Lauren Benton, New York UniversityTaiwan Made in Holland
Leonard Blussé, Leiden UniversityComment: Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
Grandezza in Newfoundland
Andrew Fitzmaurice, University of SyndeyNew Caledonia 1698-1700: Scotland’s Twice-Lost Colony
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Bryn Mawr CollegeInternal Colonialism and the British Diaspora
Mark Netzloff, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeComment: David Armitage, Columbia University
The Ottoman Naval Expeditions to the Swahili Coast, 1584-1589
Giancarlo Casale, Harvard UniversityThe Lost Colony of New Scotland and its Successors
John G. Reid, St. Mary’s University‘Englands Honour Revived’: English Anti-Catholicism and the Conquest of Quebec and Saint Sauveur
Cynthia Van Zandt, University of New HampshireThe Fall of New Sweden
James Williams, Middle Tennessee State UniversityComment: James Muldoon, The John Carter Brown Library
France and the Floridas: The Meaning of Fort Caroline to European Settlement in the New World
Daniel S. Murphree, University of Texas at TylerLost, Found, Lost Again: The Narrative Histories of French Florida
John Pollack, University of PennsylvaniaPirates, Nobles, and Missionaries: the French in the North of Brazil, 1612-1615
Silvia C. Shannon, St. Anselm UniversityComment: Leslie Choquette, Assumption College
McNeil Center for Early American Studies
3619 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania Campus(click here for map | click here for building view)
Terrace Room, Logan Hall, University of Pennsylvania Campus
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Malinche, the Spanish, and the New Kingdom of Coatzacoalcos
Camilla Townsend, Colgate UniversityThe Rise and Fall of Dutch Taiwan, 1624-1662
Tonio Andrade, Emory UniversityNative American Responses to the Portuguese (Re)Conquest of Dutch Brazil, 1654-1656
Mark Meuwese, University of Notre DameComment: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
Juan de Castellanos and the Conquistadores who Lost
Marcy Norton, George Washington UniversityDecadence and Decline: The Collapse of a Portuguese Mining Center in Colonial Brazil
Mary Karasch, Oakland UniversityFrom Gold Camp to Ghost Town: Bonanza Denied in the Sixteenth-Century Andean Piedmont
Kris E. Lane, College of William and MaryCon Son: Island of Lost Empires
Marc Gilbert, North Georgia State UniversityComment: Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto
Senegambia, 1763-1781: A British Colony in West Africa after the Seven Years War
Christopher Brown, The Johns Hopkins UniversityEmpire Ex Nihilo: French Ambition and Acadian Labor in the Caribbean, 1762-1767
Christopher G. Hodson, Northwestern University‘Neglected as an Abandoned People?’: Forging Loyalty and Identity in the Lost Colonies of Eighteenth-Century Illinois
Bob Morrissey, Yale UniversityComment: John R. McNeill, Georgetown University
Alison Games, Georgetown University