Friday, February 13 — Session II — 3:00-4:30 p.m.
5. Identity in Mexico and Early California
Baker 107
Chair: Annie Peterson (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
- Cameron Jones (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “‘Se Llaman Gente de Razón’: Afro-Latinos in Early Spanish California, 1769-1821”
- Covadonga Llamar Prieto (University of California, Riverside), “Liminal Frontiers in XIX Mexico: California”
- Ana Sabau Fernandez (University of California, Riverside), “Liminal Frontiers in XIX Mexico: Yucatan”
6. Women and the Development of Creole Culture
Baker 102
Chair: Kevin McLaren (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
- Sarah Horne (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “Conflating Women and Universalizing Female Nature: Spectator 11’s Negation of Difference”
- C. Ryan Hilliard (University of California, Los Angeles), “Manon’s Sisters: Female Transportation to the Early French Colonies”
- Kim Pineda (University of Oregon), “Baroque Sister Act: Music in the Educational Outreach of the Ursuline Nuns in Eighteenth-Century New Orleans”
- Judith Broome (William Paterson University), “Gender, Class, and Creolization in the British West Indies”
7. Saved, Savaged, and Sexed: Christianity in Empire
Baker 113
Chair: Kathleen Murphy (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
- Richard Pointer (Westmont College), “Captives Together: How Papunhank and Moravian Missions Saved Each Other”
- William Cordeiro (Northern Arizona University), “Turning Turk in a Christian Tragedy: Parodies of Masculine Paradigms in The Beggar’s Opera”
- Roland Finger (Cuesta College), “Euro-Women, Natives, and the Seductions of American Empire”
8. Lost in Translation: Literature Manipulation, Revision, and History
Baker 112
Chair: Sholeh Prochello (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
- Kristina Bross (Purdue University), “Amboyna and the Archive”
- Anthony Breakspear (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “Scandalous Fetishism: The Production of Cultural Capital in Sheridan’s School for Scandal”
- Alina Romo (New York University), “Reflecting on Historical Time: Translation in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man”
Plenary Address, 4:45 p.m.
Baker 101
- Brycchan Carey (Kingston University London), “Replenish, Subdue, and Dung: Samuel Martin and James Grainger’s Advice to Planters”