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Held on
Saturday, April 2, 2011
On the campus of Southern
Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
After
an initial meeting and public program held
in the fall at the
The McNeil Center for
Early American Studies at University of
Pennsylvania,
participants
gathered in the spring at SMU to present
their revised papers.
Bridging conceptions of
borderlands -- continental and hemispheric
-- and seen through Atlantic World
conceptions of the "spaces" of the Americas,
this symposium creates dialogue across both
cartographic and academic borders that tend
to divide historians. Beginning as a
public symposium and culminating in a book
of essays, this event takes as its model and
inspiration the lifetime of work by
David J. Weber, founding director
of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies
and Dedman Professor of History, who
made the most persuasive case yet that
Herbert E. Bolton was right: the
Americas do have a common history.
Conference Co-organizers and Book
Editors:
Edward Countryman, Southern
Methodist University
Juliana Barr, University of
Florida
GROUND AND GEOGRAPHY
t
Population
Collapse in Early North Dakota: The
Mandans 1500-1838, Elizabeth Fenn,
Duke University
MOVEMENT AND
MOTION
t
San Ildefonso de
Ostimuri: Colonial Spaces in the
Fragmented Communities of Northern New
Spain,
Cynthia
Radding,
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
t
Remaking
Americans: Louisiana, Upper Canada, and
Texas,
Alan
Taylor,
University of California Davis
AUTHORITY
t
Blurred Borders:
The Forgotten Apache Reservations of
Early North America,
Matthew
Babcock,
University of North Texas at Dallas
t
Visualizing the
Violent Spread of Equestrianism:
Revisiting the Segesser Hide Paintings,
Ned Blackhawk,
Yale University
t
Between War and
Peace: The Spanish Borderlands in the
Río de la Plata during the Bourbon Era,
Raul
Mandrini,
Universidad de Buenos Aires
VIOLENCE AND
POWER
t
Forced Transfer of
Indians in Nueva Vizcaya: A Hispanic
Method of Colonization,
Chantal Cramaussel-Valet,
El Colegio de Michaocán
t
People and Peoples
in Borderland Relations: Blood Talk in
New Mexico,
Brian DeLay, University of California Berkeley
t
Greater Than the
Sum of Its Parts? Place, Power, and
Narrative in Early American History,
Pekka
Hämäläinen,
University of California, Santa Barbara
NARRATIVE
CRISIS AND MEMORY
t
A Kiowa’s Odyssey:
Reading E-tah-dle-euh Doanmoe’s 1877
Sketchbook from Fort Marion,
Birgit
Brander Rasmussen,
Yale University.
t
The Borderlands
and Lost Worlds of Early America,
Samuel
Truett,
University of New Mexico
The author of
several prize-winning books on the American
Southwest including Barbaros: Spaniards
and Their Savages in the Age Enlightenment
(Yale University Press) and The Spanish
Frontier in North America (Yale
University Press),
David J. Weber
was the founding director of the William
P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies and
the Dedman Professor of History at SMU in
Dallas. Two
governments gave him the highest honor they
bestow on foreigners: in 2002 King Juan
Carlos of Spain named him to membership in
the Real Orden de Isabel la Católica, the
Spanish equivalent of a knighthood, and in
2005 Mexico named him to the Orden Mexicana
del Águila Azteca (the Order of the Aztec
Eagle). In 2007 he was inducted into the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. David Weber
passed away in August of 2010.
Image:
Antonio Pereira 1545
map. Courtesy of
the John Carter Brown Library.
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