Dublin Seminar | Statement | 2008 Conference | Publications for Sale | Forthcoming Publications
C O N F E R E N C E
New England and the Caribbean
Advertisement by Nicholas Brown seeking to buy Surinam horses. Providence Gazette, 1761.
Saturday, and Sunday, June 14 and 15, 2008
Deerfield, Massachusetts
New England and the Caribbean is a two-day conference on New England’s involvement with the West Indies and the Caribbean basin in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The conference opens with papers on American and Caribbean slavery practices and New Englanders’ roles in slave revolts and anti-colonial revolutions. It continues with an examination of extractive and provisioning trades (sugar, mahogany, and draft animals). Saturday evening sessions address maritime issues such as whale-hunting and piracy. The conference concludes on Sunday with lectures on New England business ventures, plantation ownership, the ice trade, and the decorative arts. The Seminar is designed for educators, historians, collectors, dealers, authors, librarians, and museum curators; students and the general public are cordially invited to attend. Past Seminar Proceedings and publications by program speakers will be available for purchase at the conference.
The thirty-third annual topic in the Seminar series, New England and the Caribbean will take place on the weekend of 14 and 15 June 2008 at Deerfield, Massachusetts. The lecture program will be held at the White Church beginning on Saturday morning and will continue until approximately 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. Meals will include lunch and dinner on Saturday, June 14; coffee and donuts will be available each morning before the lectures. Dormitory accommodations will be available at Deerfield’s Eaglebrook School beginning Friday afternoon. (A list of nearby motels and bed and breakfast establishments is available at www.co.franklin.ma.us/accom). A selected and edited transcript of this conference will appear as the 2008 Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, which will be issued about eighteen months after the conference.
GALLERY TOUR
Friday Afternoon, June 13
Philip Zea, Historic Deerfield:
Conference-related gallery tour.
Flynt Center for Early New England Life, 4:30 p.m.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Saturday Morning, June 14
Slavery
Eric B. Kimball, University of Pittsburgh: Hidden Dimensions of the Triangle Trade: Colonial Rhode Island and the West Indies
Peter Benes, Dublin Seminar: “A [useful] Spanish Indian Damsel”: Native Caribbean Slavery in New England before 1770
George Schwartz, Peabody Essex Museum: “The Chief Spirit…Our Venerable Fellow Citizen”: The Life of John Remond in Antebellum Salem, Massachusetts
Age of Revolution
Curtis Jacobs, University of the West Indies: The Carys of Massachusetts and Grenada, 1774–1810
Saturday Afternoon, June 14
Extractive and Provisioning Trades
Gaynell Stone, Suffolk County [L.I.] Archeological Association: Screening of “The Sugar Connection: Holland, Barbados, Shelter Island”
Jennifer L. Anderson, Stony Brook University: The Card Family and the Mahogany Trade: From New England to the Bay of Honduras
James Roberts, Johns Hopkins University: Caribbean Ambitions and Entanglements: A Selection of Southern New England Family Networks in the British West Indies, 1760–1810
Chocolate
Amanda Lange, Historic Deerfield: Sweet Concoction: The History of Chocolate in Early America.
To be followed by open-hearth chocolate making and tasting at the Hall Tavern.
Saturday Evening, June 14
Whaling, Piracy
Michael P. Dyer, New Bedford Whaling Museum: New England Whaling in the Caribbean
Stephen C. O’Neill, Boston University and Pilgrim Hall Museum: Caribbean Buccaneers in New England: The Material Trail
David Rickman, State of Delaware, Division of Parks and Recreation, and Deborah Kraak, Independent Curator: From the Spanish Main to Hollywood: The Evolution of Pirate Dress, Real and Imagined
Sunday Morning, June 15
Plantations and Business Ventures
Joseph Avitable, University of Rochester: Connecticut Trade with the West Indies
Barbara M. Ward, Moffatt-Ladd House & Garden and Tufts University: The Moffat Family of Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Connections to the West Indies, 1740–1783
Kimberly Alexander, Strawbery Banke Museum: Leonard Cotton’s Cuban Ventures and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Portsmouth
Amanda Warnock, University of Texas at Austin: Cold Drinks in Hot Weather: The Boston-Havana Ice Trade, 1801–1834
Decorative Arts
Daniel K. Ackermann, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts: Expressing the Sacred within the Secular: Architecture and the Jewish Communities of Willemstad, Curaçao, and Newport, Rhode Island
ADVANCE REGISTRATION
To register for this conference, please check the appropriate box (or boxes) on this form. Reservations are limited, will be accepted in the order they are received, and must arrive on or before June 4, 2008. Registrants may request complimentary lecture abstracts through e-mail. Advance registrations are refundable (less $10 handling) if returned before June 4, 2008.
[ ] Registration for gallery tour and lecture program, June 14 and 15, including lunch and dinner on Saturday, June 14. $105
[ ] Registration for full-time students including lunch and dinner on Saturday. Please indicate school and year of graduation. $85
Optional Housing
[ ] Housing at Eaglebrook School dormitory, Friday and Saturday nights, June 13 and 14. $85
[ ] Single-room surcharge. $50
[ ] I wish to apply for a scholarship to attend the conference. My résumé and two letters of recommendation are enclosed.
[ ] Please send me e-mail abstracts of speakers’ papers.
Optional Museum Pass
[ ] Reduced-rate ticket to Historic Deerfield, Thursday, June 12, through Monday, June 16 (must be reserved in advance). $5
Dublin Seminar Annual Membership and Scholarship Fund
[ ] Members receive topic, conference, and publication announcements; a copy of the current Annual Proceedings; 10 percent discount on conference fees; and 10 percent discount on all Seminar publications purchased at the conference. $30
[ ] Donation to Scholarship Fund. Amount _________.
Funds will be applied to applications received this year. Any leftover scholarships
will be applied to this purpose in 2009.
Note to Massachusetts public school teachers: This conference may be used for Professional Development Points.
Mail to:
Peter Benes, Director, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Boston University Scholarly Publications
985 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215
Phone: 978/369-7382 • E-mail: dublsem@bu.edu
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