Borderlands as Physical Reality: Producing Place in the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
King’s College London / UNC Chapel Hill
Council Room, King’s College London
FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER
9.15
WELCOME
9.30
AMERICAN BORDERLANDS, part I
Negotiating North America’s New National Borders
Benjamin Johnson (Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University)
Environment, Territory, and Landscape Changes in Northern Mexico during the Era of
Independence
Cynthia Radding (Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill)
10.30: Coffee
10:45
AMERICAN BORDERLANDS, part II
Twisted Logic: Freedom and Bondage along the Ohio River Border
Matthew Salafia (Department of History, North Dakota State University)
Frontier, Rangeland, Overland Trail: Borderlands as Sites of Rootedness in the NineteenthCentury American West
Nina Vollenbröker(Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London)
Commentator (parts I and II): Bernard L. Herman (UNC-Chapel Hill)
12.45: Lunch
14.00
INTRA-STATE BORDERLANDS: THE CASE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
After the Fire: Building London and Shaping the Urban Atlantic World, 1666-1710
Bernard L. Herman (Department of American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill)
Living a British Borderland: Northumberland and the Scottish Borders
Paul Readman (Department of History, King’s College London)
Unofficial Frontiers: Welsh-English Borderlands in the Victorian Period
Roland Quinault (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)
Commentator: Arthur Burns (King’s College London)
16.00: Tea
16.30
BORDERLANDS OF THE PACIFIC RIM
“The Men Who Made Australia Federated Long Ago”: Frontiers, Borderlands and the
Writing of Australian History
Frank Bongiorno(Australian National University)
“We are Comfortable Riding the Waves”: Landscape and the Formation of a Border State in
Eighteenth-Century Island Southeast Asia
Timothy Barnard (Department of History, National University of Singapore)
Commentator: Richard Drayton (King’s College London)
18.00: Drinks
SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER
9.00
BORDERLANDS AND THE FORMATION OF IDENTITIES
Frontier Indians: IndiosMansos, Indios Bravos and the Layers of Indigenous Existence in the
Caribbean Borderlands
Jason Yaremko (Department of History, University of Winnipeg)
Church fights: Nationality, class and the politics of church-building in a German-Polish
borderland, 1890-1914
James Bjork (Department of History, King’s College London)
Borderlands and Nation-Building in the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon
Michael Rowe (Department of History, King’s College London)
Commentator: Chad Bryant (UNC-Chapel Hill)
11.00: Coffee
11.30
TRADE, EXCHANGE AND THE UNCERTAINTY OF BORDERLANDS
Migration, Sanitation and Trade on the Russo-Polish Borderland, 1762-1795
Oksana Mykhed (Department of History, Harvard University)
Insecure Boundaries: The Slave Trade and Slavery in mid-19th CenturyLiberia
Lisa Lindsay (Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill)
Commentator: Dr Jim Bjork (King’s College London)
13.00: Lunch
14.00
BORDERLANDS, THE SEA, AND ISLANDS
Borderland or Finite Space? Conceptions of the Island in Eighteenth-Century France
Mary Sheriff (Art Department, UNC-Chapel Hill)
From Planting Boundaries to Setting Borders in Cement
Daren Ray (Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia)
“Set in the Seas between Britain and Germany”: Heligoland and the Anglo-German
Relationship
Jan Rüger (Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck University of London)
Commentator: Lloyd Kramer (UNC Chapel Hill)
16.00: Tea
16.30
SOME IMPERIAL BORDERLANDS
Separating Man from Beast: Borders of Fear within Colonial Singapore
Mark Emmanuel (Department of History, National University of Singapore)
Imperialism Inside/Out: Internal Borderlands and the Limits of Colonialism in South Asia
Eric Beverley (Department of History, SUNY Stonybrook)
Commentator: Lisa Lindsay (Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill)
18.00 Drinks