Program

October 28-29, 2016
Yale University
320 York Street, Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211
Free and open to the public

Day 1, October 28

8:00 – 9:00 AM • Registration and Coffee

9:00 – 9:15 AM • Welcome Remarks
Marcela Echeverri (Yale) — Clément Thibaud (Université de Nantes)

9:15 – 11:15 AM • Panel 1: Revolution and Counterrevolution
Chair: Steve Pincus (Yale)

  • Alexandre Dupont, Institut d’Etudes Politiques Aix-en-Provence (France), “Popular Royalism in the Pyrenees and its Paradoxes” 
  • Doris Garraway, Northwestern University (USA), “Legitimating Monarchy in an Abolitionist State: The Case of Henry Christophe in Haiti”
  • Aurélien Lignereux, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble (France), “The Royalist Insurgency of Spring 1815: A European Perspective” 

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM • Panel 2: Legality and Monarchical Legitimacy
Chair: Marcela Echeverri (Yale)

  • Hendrik Kraay, University of Calgary (Canada), “Cabanos, Black Kings, and the Guarda Negra: Popular Royalism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil”
  • Sergio Serulnikov, Universidad de San Andrés-Conicet (Argentina), “What Invoking the King’s Name Meant (and What it Did Not): Popular Royalism in Late Colonial Charcas”
  • Randy Sparks, Tulane University (USA), “‘Britons Never Shall Be Slaves’: Consular Manumissions in the Atlantic World, 1830 – 1860”

2:45 – 4:45 PM • Panel 3: Military Organization and Violence
Chair: Ed Rugemer (Yale)

  • Ruma Chopra, San Jose State University (USA), “The Loyal Maroons”
  • Claudia Guarisco, El Colegio Mexiquense (Mexico), “Indians, Royalism, and War in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: New Spain, 1810 – 1821”
  • Maria Alessandra Bollettino, Framingham State University (USA), “‘I am willing to fight for his Majesty King George’: Black Royalism in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World”

Day 2, October 29

8:00 – 9:00 AM • Coffee

9:00 – 11:00 AM • Panel 1: Politics and Religion
Chair: Stuart Schwartz (Yale)

  • Andréa Lisly, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (Brazil), “Two Loyalties, a Single Emperor: Restorers and Liberals in Defense of D. Pedro I of Brazil and IV of Portugal (1828-1834)”
  • Simon Sarlin, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre (France), “Saints and Soldiers: Miracles, Prophecies and Sainthood in Mass Mobilizations in Italy, from the Insorgenze to the Risorgimento”
  • Tomás Straka, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Venezuela), “Father Llamozas’ ‘Revolution’”

11:15 AM – 1:15 PM • Panel 2: Alliances
Chair: Clément Thibaud (Nantes)

  • Paul Chopelin, Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France), “Popular Royalism in France (1789-1900)”
  • Steinar A. Saether, University of Oslo (Norway), “Decorations as Signs of Royalism during the Latin American Wars of Independence”

2:30 – 4:30 PM • Concluding Roundtable
Moderator: Marcela Echeverri (Yale)

Gabriel Di Meglio, Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET (Argentina)

Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University (USA)

Elena Schneider, University of California, Berkeley (USA)

Clément Thibaud, Université de Nantes (France)