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URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/contested-foundations-2-1/
SUMMARY:Contested Foundations: Commemorating the Red Letter Year of 1619\, 
 Conference 2: “Burgesses to be chosen in all places”: Representative G
 overnance Takes Hold on British Claimed Soil [DAY 1]
DESCRIPTION:—organized by Brenda E. Stevenson (University of California\,
  Los Angeles) and Sharla M. Fett (Occidental College)\n\nThe year 1619 was
  designated as the red-letter year in Virginia\, the first permanent colon
 y in British North America\, for three reasons—it marked the beginning o
 f a representative government\; the arrival of captive African laborers\; 
 and the initiation of a successful plan to encourage permanent family deve
 lopment through the importation of English women. It was on June 29\, 1619
 \, that Sir George Yeardley\, governor general of the colony\, convened a 
 legislative assembly consisting of persons sent as representatives by its 
 free male residents. It was the first such legislative assembly in the Bri
 tish colonial New World. Two months later\, the first shipment of Africans
  arrived at Point Comfort on the southern coast of Virginia\, a foreshadow
 ing of the hundreds of thousands of African laborers who would eventually 
 arrive and help to transform Virginia\, and several other colonies\, into 
 race-based-slave economies. That same year\, the Virginia Company of Londo
 n began a concerted effort to recruit “respectable [English] women” to
  the colony so that\, in the words of one Company officer\, they could “
 ‘make wifes to the inhabitants and by that meanes to make the men there 
 more settled and less moveable.” The combination of these efforts\, all 
 meant to enhance the lives of the colonial male elite\, marked the beginni
 ng of a true settler colony for Britain in North America. This beginning c
 ame with grim implications for the indigenous populations the British enco
 untered. These experiments in governance\, settler colonialism\, and a rac
 ialized economy also proved to be the characteristic underpinnings of our 
 independent nation two hundred and fifty years later. 1619 was indeed the 
 red-letter year of British America’s 17th century!\n\nThe 2019–20 core
  program\, which marks the 400th anniversary of this notable year\, encom
 passes three conferences\, each of which will address one of the three sem
 inal events of 1619 within the geopolitical\, economic\, and social/cultur
 al contexts of 17th and 18th century North America. Across these conferenc
 es\, we will also consider 1619’s impact on the nation’s eventual char
 acter. The British\, of course\, were not the first Europeans to explore\,
  establish permanent settlements\, import African slaves\, or create gover
 ning structures in North America. The French and the Spanish made several 
 forays into the southern\, gulf\, and western regions before the British. 
 Therefore\, the program will also encompass French and Spanish forays into
  the southern\, gulf\, and western regions.\n\nThis second conference inte
 rrogates the ideals and realities of representative governance structures 
 among British (and European) residents of North America from early coloniz
 ation until the mid-18th century. There will be emphases on the barriers o
 f race\, gender and wealth to participation in these “representative” 
 governments. Scholars will investigate the impact of the development of th
 ese colonial governments\, and their legal institutions\, on native people
 s’ self-governance efforts and claims to the land vis-à-vis their settl
 er neighbors. Furthermore\, the conference will explore the contradictions
  inherent in the legal institutionalization of race-based chattel slavery\
 , and the implications of this for the U.S.’s founding political constit
 uents\, documents\, and institutions.\n\nSpeakers\n\n\nChristopher M. Blak
 ley\, Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow\nElizabeth Fenn\, University of C
 olorado\, Boulder\nMishuana Goeman\, University of California\, Los Angele
 s\nJames Horn\, Jamestown Rediscovery\nKaren Ordahl Kupperman\, New York U
 niversity\nAndrew Lipman\, Barnard College\, Columbia University\nBenjamin
  Madley\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nCarla Gardina Pestana\, 
 University of California\, Los Angeles\nDaniel K. Richter\, McNeil Center 
 for Early American Studies\, University of Pennsylvania\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n
 10:00 a.m.\nMorning Coffee and Registration\n\n 10:30 a.m.\nHelen Deutsch
 \, University of California\, Los Angeles\nWelcome\n\nBrenda E. Stevenson\
 , University of California\, Los Angeles\nSharla M. Fett\, Occidental Coll
 ege\nOpening Remarks \n\n10:45 a.m.\nPanel 1: The Nature of Early British
  Colonial Governance in North America\nChair: Alexander Haskell\, Universi
 ty of California\, Riverside\n\nJames Horn\, Jamestown Rediscovery\n“161
 9: Democracy\, Diversity\, and Race”\n\n11:15 a.m.\nCarla Gardina Pestan
 a\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n“Empire\, Religion\, and Ear
 ly Governance”\n\n11:45 a.m.\nCoffee Break\n\n12:00 p.m.\nDaniel K. Rich
 ter\, McNeil Center for Early American Studies\, University of Pennsylvani
 a\n“What Was an Assembly For? Land and Power in the 17th Century Proprie
 tary Colonies”\n\n12:30 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n1:00 p.m.\nLunch\n\n2:15 p.m
 .\nPanel 2: Indigenous Responses to Colonial Governance\nChair: Brenda E. 
 Stevenson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nAndrew Lipman\, Barn
 ard College\, Columbia University\n“Indigenous Responses on the Saltwate
 r Frontier”\n\n2:45 p.m.\nElizabeth Fenn\, University of Colorado Boulde
 r\n“Indigenous Center\, Colonial Margins: Mandans and European Contact
 ”\n\n3:15 p.m.\nCoffee Break \n\n3:30 p.m.\nMishuana Goeman\, Universit
 y of California\, Los Angeles\n“Settler Aesthetics\, Spectacles\, and Cr
 eating ‘The New World’”\n\n4:00 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n4:30 p.m.\nRecep
 tion\n\n\n\nAfter booking your spot for Day 1\, please remember to book Da
 y 2\n\nThere is no charge for this event. Advance booking is requested.
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