Beyond Freedom: New Directions in the Study of Emancipation Gilder Lehrman Center's 13th Annual International Conference November 11-12, 2011 Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue Yale University New Haven, Connecticut Participant Biographies FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Coffee and Registration 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome Remarks David W. Blight, Yale University 9:15 - 10:45 a.m. Opening Roundtable: State of the Field James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center, "When Everybody Was Wrong" Eve M. Troutt Powell, University of Pennsylvania, "The Different Endings of Slavery in the Ottoman Middle East" Eric Foner, Columbia University, "Emancipation and Its Aftermath: The State of the Field" Vincent Brown, Duke University, "Escaping Slavery: Political Strategy Under the Maroon Metaphor" Moderator: Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania VIDEO (part 1) | VIDEO (part 2) 10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Emancipation and Politics Kate Masur, Northwestern University, West Point and the Problem of Equality Chandra Manning, Georgetown University, Will Work for Citizenship Brandi C. Brimmer, University of Maryland, College Park, Recovering the Political Vision of Poor Black Women in the Late-Nineteenth Century South Moderator: David W. Blight, Yale University VIDEO (part 1) | VIDEO (part 2) 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Emancipation and Ideology Dylan C. Penningroth, Northwestern University, Beasts and Blood: Legacies of Slavery in Colonial Ghana Susan Eva O'Donovan, University of Memphis, Writing Slavery into Freedom's Story: Mobility and Messages in the Late Antebellum South Allyson Hobbs, Stanford University, "A Grave Social Question Has Arisen": Interracial Encounters and Racial Identity in Reconstruction-Era Washington, D.C. Moderator: Greg Downs, City College of New York VIDEO (part 1) | VIDEO (part 2) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Coffee and Registration 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Emancipation and Borders Sandra Gunning, University of Michigan, The Deadly Voyage of the Allanshaw: Rebellion, Indenture, and Sex Across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans Jim Downs, Connecticut College, Contraband Camps and Indian Reservations: Federal Authority Beyond the Reconstruction South Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania, The South, the West, and the Imperial State Moderator: James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center VIDEO (part 1) | VIDEO (part 2) 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Emancipation and Violence Carole Emberton, SUNY Buffalo, The Militarization of Freedom Hannah Rosen, University of Michigan, Writing the History of Postemancipation Violence Justin Behrend, SUNY Geneseo, Overthrowing Local Democracies: The Political Geography of Reconstruction Violence in the Natchez District Moderator: David W. Blight, Yale University VIDEO (part 1) | VIDEO (part 2) 3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Coffee break 3:15 - 4:30 p.m. Concluding Roundtable: New Directions in the Field Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University, "Free Black Men" Thavolia Glymph, Duke University, "The Liberty to be Free: The Problem of Freedom as a Problem of American Exceptionalism" Greg Downs, City College of New York, Emancipated into the Necessary, Impossible Arms of the State: Governance and the Limits of Liberation Moderator: David W. Blight, Yale University VIDEO (part 1) | VIDEO (part 2)