The ASLH program committee has organized an exciting short program of online panels to be held on November 13-14, 2020. You can find the schedule below. Registration is free for all ASLH members, and you must be a member to attend.
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American Society for Legal History
Virtual Mini-Conference November 13-14, 2020
Friday, November 13, 2020
(All times are U.S. Eastern Standard Time)
10:30-12:00: Panel 1 – The Everyday Materials of Colonial Legal Spaces
Introduction
Kalyani Ramnath, Harvard University
“Half Real: Space, Imagination and the Juzgado de Naturales in Spanish America”
Bianca Premo, Florida International University
“Paper, People, Cloth: Mixed Courtrooms and Materiality in Colonial Indonesia”
Sanne Ravensbergen, Leiden University
“Legal Performances in the Boundary Lands: Violence, Objects and Indigenous Claims in Colonial Mexico”
Yanna Yannakakis, Emory University
“Out of Bounds in the Circum-Caribbean”
Laurie Wood, Florida State University
12:00-1:00: Lunch Break
1:00-2:30: Panel 2 – Documenting Identity in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800: A Conversation
Introduction
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California
Hannah Muller, Brandeis University
“Licenses in Servitude, Military Service, and Slavery: Views from the Lower Courts”
Sonia Tycko, Oxford University
“‘That no such Alien shall depart…without previously obtaining a Passport’: identification and documentation under the Aliens Acts, 1793-1794”
Hannah Muller, Brandeis University
“Between Land and Sea: Maritime Identification Documents and Terrestrial Legal Regimes”
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California
Comment
Susan Pearson, Northwestern University
2:45-4:15: Panel 3 – The Preyer Prize Panel
Introduction
Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara
“‘Los Hijos Son La Riqueza Del Pobre:’ Postwar Mexican Child Migration and the Making of Domestic (Im)migrant Exclusion, 1940-1965”
Ivón Padilla-Rodriguez, Columbia University
Comment
Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota
“Policing the ‘Police State’: Detention, Supervision, and Deportation During the Cold War”
Smita Ghosh, University of Pennsylvania
Comment
Lucy Salyer, University of New Hampshire
4:30-6:00: Panel 4 – Roundtable: Publishing Legal History Books in the Coronavirus Era
Wendy Strothman, The Strothman Agency
Reuel Schiller, Hastings College of the Law/Cambridge University Press
Michael Lobban, London School of Economics/Cambridge University Press
Tim Bent, Oxford University Press
Debbie Gershenowitz, University of North Carolina Press
Comment
Michael Willrich, Brandeis University
Saturday, November 14, 2020
(All times are U.S. Eastern Standard Time)
10:30-12:00: Panel 1 – Jefferson, Madison, and the Challenge of Abolition in the Era of the Haitian Revolution
“Slavery in the Era of the Founders”
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University
Peter Onuf, University of Virginia
“Caribbean Migrants and the Non-enforcement of the 1807 Ban on the Slave Trade”
Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan
Andrew Walker, Kenyon College
Comment
Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:00-1:00: Lunch Break
1:00-2:30: Panel 2 – Presidential Address & Prize Announcements
Lauren Benton, Yale University