American Historical Association

Precirculated Paper Sessions

2011 Annual Meeting

Precirculated paper sessions are one of the ways the AHA attempts to increase audience participation and discussion at the Annual Meeting. These sessions are organized around presentations (papers, PowerPoint, text from online) and made available online for audience members to access and read before the Annual Meeting. Follow the links below to the diverse range of precirculated paper sessions at the 125th Annual Meeting in Boston.

Precirculated Paper Sessions

• Session 72 - Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space, part 2: Memory, Slavery, and Tourism

• Session 90 - "Sacred History" and Ancient Near Eastern Antiquity

• Session 110 - Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space, part 3: Black Atlantic Lives: Biography in the African Diaspora

• Session 147 - Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space, part 4: Plural and Contested Memories of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa

• Session 159 - Early Modernity, Empire, and Cultural Difference: Insights from Sri Lanka

• Session 185 - Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space, part 5: Public Memory of Slavery in Britain and France

• Session 224 - Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space, part 6: Slavery and Public Narratives: Comparative Perspectives in Africa and the United States

• Session 260 - Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space, part 7: The Slave Past in the Public Space: Europe, Americas, and Africa

 

 

AHA Session 72

Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space, Part 2: Memory, Slavery, and Tourism
Friday, January 7, 2011: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM
Room 310 (Hynes Convention Center)

Chair: Jeffrey A. Fortin, State University of New York College at Oneonta

Papers:

• Looking the Thing in the Face: Slavery and the Public Landscape in Charleston, South Carolina
  Ethan J. Kytle, California State University at Fresno

• Point of Origin: The U.S. Domestic Slave Trade in the Public History Narrative
  Stephanie E. Yuhl, College of the Holy Cross

• Freedom Fighter or Criminal? The Politics of Memorializing Sally Bassett and Slavery in Bermuda
  Quito Swan, Howard University

• "So, Are You in the Market for a Slave?": Slavery and the Tourism Industry in Charleston, South Carolina
  Blain Roberts, California State University at Fresno

Comment: Mitch Kachun, Western Michigan University

 

AHA Session 90

"Sacred History" and Ancient Near Eastern Antiquity
Friday, January 7, 2011: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Clarendon Room (Marriott Boston Copley Place)

Chair: Steven J. Garfinkle, Western Washington University

Papers:

• Introduction
  Seth Richardson, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

• Why Mesopotamia?
  Paper by Guillermo Algaze, read by Jason Ur, Harvard University

• The Beginning of (Sacred) History in Egypt
  Andréas Stauder, Swiss National Science Foundation and The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

• The Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle: A Case-Study in Mesopotamian Sacred History
  Alhena Gadotti, Towson University

• Sacred History and Empire in Assyria
  Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

 

AHA Session 110

Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space, Part 3: Black Atlantic Lives: Biography in the African Diaspora
Friday, January 7, 2011: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Room 310 (Hynes Convention Center)

Chair: Paul E. Lovejoy, York University

Papers:

• Constituting Value in A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa
  Bryan Sinche, University of Hartford

• Enslaved Ship Pilots: Navigating the Green Waters of Race and Slavery
  Kevin Dawson, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

• Paul Cuffe and the Question of Sierra Leone, 1795–1817
  Jeffrey A. Fortin, State University of New York College at Oneonta

Comment: Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina

 

AHA Session 147

Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space, Part 4: Plural and Contested Memories of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa
Saturday, January 8, 2011: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Room 310 (Hynes Convention Center)

Chair: Carolyn A. Brown, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Papers:

• Memories of Slavery in Southern Benin: Between Public Commemorations and Lineage Intimacy
  Joel Noret, Université Libre de Bruxelles

• Mapping the Fugitive Nation: Public Memories of Resistance and Maroonage in Twenty-First-Century Angola and Brazil
  Jessica Krug, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• The Public Memory of the Slave Trade in Togo
  Alessandra Brivio, University of Milano-Biccoca

• With or Without Roots: The Compared and Conflictual Memories of Slavery and Indentured Labor in the Mauritian Public Space
  Mathieu Claveyrolas, CNRS, and CEIAS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Comment: Edward A. Alpers, University of California at Los Angeles

 

AHA Session 159

Early Modernity, Empire, and Cultural Difference: Insights from Sri Lanka
Saturday, January 8, 2011: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Room 204 (Hynes Convention Center)

Chair: Martha Chaiklin, University of Pittsburgh

Papers:

• Position paper for session

• Local, Regional, and Global Factors in Portugal's Imperial Stance in Sri Lanka
  Zoltán Biedermann, Birkbeck College, University of London

• Stranger-Kingship and the Stranger's Religion in an Early Modern Focus
  Alan Strathern, University of Cambridge

• Sinhala Poetry and Early Modernity in Comparative Perspective
  Charles Hallisey, Harvard University

• War, Cultural Difference, and Kingship: Perspectives from the British Defeat in Kandy of 1803, in Comparative Context
  Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge

• The 1868 Caste Controversy in Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective
  John D. Rogers, American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies

 

AHA Session 185

Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space, Part 5: Public Memory of Slavery in Britain and France
Saturday, January 8, 2011: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Room 310 (Hynes Convention Center)

Chair: Jane G. Landers, Vanderbilt University

Papers:

• Teaching and Commemorating Slavery and Abolition in France: From Organized Forgetting to Historical Debates
  Nelly Schmidt, CNRS, and Université Paris IV-Sorbonne

• Making Slavery Visible? The Electronic Memory of the Slave Trade and Slavery in Post-1998 France
  Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, Université de Sherbrooke; Léon Robichaud, Université de Sherbrooke

• Commemorating a Guilty Past: The Politics of Memory in the French Former Slave Trade Cities
  Renaud Hourcade, CRAPE-CNRS, Université de Rennes

Comment: Lorelle D. Semley, Wesleyan University

 

AHA Session 224

Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space, Part 6: Slavery and Public Narratives: Comparative Perspectives in Africa and the United States
Saturday, January 8, 2011: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Room 310 (Hynes Convention Center)

Chair: Joshua M. Rosenthal, Western Connecticut State University

Papers:

• Dorugu Kwage Adam's Memoirs: Jihad and Slavery in Central Sudan in the Nineteenth Century
  Mohamed Bashir Salau, University of Mississippi

• Distant Cousins: African Americans and Ambiguity in Ghanaian Newspapers during the Nkrumah Years
  Zahida Sherman, Northwestern University

• Making Slavery Visible (Again): The Nineteenth-Century Roots of a Revisionist Recovery in New England
  Margot Minardi, Reed College

• Memories of Slavery in the Region of Kayes (Mali): History of a Disappearance
  Marie Rodet, University of Vienna

Comment: Paul E. Lovejoy, York University

 

AHA Session 260

Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space, Part 7: The Slave Past in the Public Space: Europe, Americas, and Africa
Sunday, January 9, 2011: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Room 310 (Hynes Convention Center)

Chair: Mitch Kachun, Western Michigan University

Papers:

• Museums and Sensitive Histories
  Richard Benjamin, International Slavery Museum

• Transnational Memory of Slave Merchants: Making the Perpetrators Visible in the Public Space
  Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University

• Museums, History, and Community: U.K. Museum Response to the Bicentenary of the 1807 Act of Abolition
  Geoffrey Cubitt, University of York

• The Art of Memory: São Paulo's AfroBrasil Museum
  Kimberly Cleveland, Georgia State University

Comment: Martin Klein, University of Toronto