Conference Details

Click on the right to download a range of information for the 2009 conference at Stirling, which is on the theme "Rethinking Africa and the Atlantic World." Besides the original CFP, you will find directions to Stirling, information on accommodation, a virtual campus tour, the conference programme, and registration information. Click on the "Read More" for word documents and the image for pdfs.

Conference Papers

Some participants have kindly offered to make their papers available in advance, for others to view. Click on the titles below to view pdfs of these files.

• Edna Bay, "Questioning Syncretism: Vodou in Haiti and Roman Catholicism in Benin."
• Trevor Burnard, "Credit, Kingston Merchants and the Atlantic Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century."
• Simon Smith, "The "Curse of the Caribbean"? Absentee Estate Ownership on St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1817-34."

Conference Committee

• Ben Marsh , University of Stirling
• Simon Newman, University of Glasgow
• Catriona Paul , University of Dundee(postgraduate representative)
• Phia Steyn, University of Stirling
• Silke Strickrodt, German Historical Institute, London
• Matthew Ward , University of Dundee
• Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Billy G. Smith (Montana State University, USA) will be delivering the Caroline Robbins lecture, sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Americas.

Prof. Elisée Soumonni (Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Benin)

Dr. Sarah Knott (Indiana University, USA) and Dr. Sarah Pearsall (Oxford Brookes University) will be the BGEAH "Book Club" speakers, talking respectively about Sensibility and the American Revolution (UNC, 2008) and Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Eighteenth Century (OUP, 2009).

Prof. Paul E. Lovejoy (York University, Toronto, Canada)

Prof. Kenneth Morgan (Brunel University)

Sponsors

This year's BGEAH meeting is being generously supported by: The British Academy, the University of Stirling Department of History, the Cambridge Mellon Fund, the United States Embassy (Cultural Affairs Office), the Stirling Principal's Fund, the European Association of Early American Studies, Oxford University Press, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.