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)