Dartmouth and the World: Religion and Political Economy @1769
Scholarly conference on the life and times of Dartmouth's founding, with emphasis on the relationship between religion and political economy. Open to the public.
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2019
9 AM: Sanborn House, Wren Room
SHANNON STIMSON, Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom, Georgetown University, “Heterodoxy and Wealth: Sir William Petty and the Ends of Political Economy.”
PHILIP J. STERN, Gilhuly Family Associate Professor, Department of History, Duke University, “Charters, Contracts, and Corporations: The Legacies of the Eighteenth-Century British Empire in Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)”
TIMOTHY H. BREEN, William Smith Mason Professor of American history at Northwestern University, emeritus, “Reconciliation and Revenge: The Refugee Crisis that Ended the American Revolution.”
11 AM: Sanborn House, Wren Room
EMMA GRIFFIN, Professor of History, University of East Anglia, “Life and Living Standards in Britain’s Industrial Revolution”
MARA CADEN, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, “New England and the Currency Acts: Paper Money and its Discontents”
J. PATRICK MULLINS, Assistant Professor of History, Marquette University, "Virtue, Corruption, and Tyrannicide: 1769 and the Roots of Mercy Otis Warren's Radicalization."
2:30 PM: Sanborn House, Wren Room
KRISTEN BEALES, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University, “God Saved the Audit: George Whitefield and Eighteenth-Century Accounting”
MARK VALERI, Reverend Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics, Washington Univ., “Religious Conversion, the Stamp Act, and Political Economy in Revolutionary New England”
KATE CARTÉ, Department of History, Southern Methodist University, “Wheelock to Dartmouth: The Apotheosis of British Protestantism”
Free and open to the public.
