The 2nd Academic Conference of The Filson Institute
Comparative Perspectives on North American Borderlands
Friday and Saturday, October 20-21, 2006

To register for this event, contact The Filson Historical Society, call or fax:
(502) 635-5083 ph
(502) 635-5086 fax

Friday, October 20, 2006

9:00 a.m. - Opening Remarks: Andrew Cayton, Miami University

9:30 a.m. - Session 1: Spiritual Borderlands

Philip N. Mulder, High Point University
"Borderlands Redemption: Christians in the Ohio River Valley"

Dael Norwood, Princeton University
"‘Heathens they will still be’?: The S.P.G. Mission to the Mohawks and the History of Indian Missions in North America"

Michael Pasquier, Florida State University
"French Missionaries and Borderland Catholicism in the Upper South"

Commentator: Christine Heyrman, University of Delaware

11:15 a.m. - Session 2: Racial Borderlands

Ginette Aley, University of Southern Indiana
"Sheriff Tipton and ‘the Negress Susan’: Society and Race in the Ohio River Valley during the Early Republic"

Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Petit Jean: An African Spy in the Gulf Coast Borderlands"

Julie Winch, University of Massachusetts-Boston
"‘The Mark Unmistakably Fixed Upon their Brows’: A Free Family of Color in the Borderlands"

Commentator: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University

1:00 p.m. - Lunch

2:15 p.m. - Session 3: Violent Borderlands

Tyler Boulware, West Virginia University
"Border Conflict and Group Identity in the Early South: Cherokee and Euroamerican Conceptions of Community"

Jimmy L. Bryan, University of Nevada-Reno
"El Encuentro Mexicano: U.S. Adventurers in the Borderlands"

Carla Gerona, University of Texas at Dallas
"Los Desaparecidos as a Constitutive Principle of the Borderlands: Finding the Missing People of Early Texas"

Commentator: Wayne E. Lee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Saturday, October 21, 2006

9:00 a.m. - Session 4: Imposed Borderlands

Derek R. Everett, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
"Organizing the Wide-Open Spaces: Imposing Boundaries on the Antebellum Trans-Mississippi West"

Julien P. Vernet, University of British Columbia Okanagan
"Petitions from the Peripheries of Empire: Louisiana and Quebec"

Denise Wilson, PhD, Independent Scholar
"The French Response to American Laws and Lawmakers in Frontier Vincennes"

Commentator: Stephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles, and Autry National Center

10:45 a.m. - Session 5: Political Borderlands

Brian DeLay, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Opportunity Costs: Southern Comanches between Texas and Mexico, 1836-1846"

Rob Harper, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Coalition Politics and Strategic Ambiguity in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley"

Daniel S. Murphree, University of Texas at Tyler
"Rejecting Spanish Florida: Reinterpreting the Florida Borderlands Through a Transnational Perspective"

Commentator: Andrew K. Frank, Florida Atlantic University

12:30 p.m. - Lunch

2:00 p.m. - Session 6: Ethnic Borderlands

Steven M. Fountain, University of California, Davis
"Between Borderlands: Ethnocultural Change in and between the Snake and Tulare Borderlands"

Rebekah M. K. Mergenthal, University of Chicago
"The Meaning of Mingling: Natives, Slaves, and Settlers in the Missouri Valley"

Christina Snyder, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Rethinking the Southeastern Borderlands: Creek Sovereignty in the Late-Eighteenth Century"

Commentator: Daniel Usner, Vanderbilt University

3:30 p.m. - Closing Remarks: David J. Weber, Southern Methodist University

*Due to the generosity of C. Ballard Breaux’s bequest, The Filson Historical Society is able to offer these public conferences of The Filson Institute for a nominal fee. If you are interested in planned giving or underwriting opportunities, please contact The Filson at (502) 635-5083.

The Filson Institute for the Advanced Study of Kentucky, the Ohio Valley, and the Upper South consists of conferences, lectures, seminars, fellowships, and internships that provide systematic and sustained interaction between scholars, the public, and The Filson Research Collections.

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To make reservations for these events, call (502) 635-5083

The Filson Historical Society
1310 South Third Street - Louisville, KY 40208
Phone: (502) 635-5083 Fax: (502) 635-5086

Hours
The Ferguson Mansion and Office
Monday - Friday: 9 am. - 5 pm.
Saturday and Sunday closed
Library
Monday - Friday: 9 am. - 5 pm.
Saturday: 9 am. - 12 noon