Friday, April 1, 2016
1014 Tisch Hall

9:15-9:30 am: Welcome

• Jay Cook (University of Michigan)

9:30-11:30 am: The Age of Revolutions
Chair: Jacques Vest (University of Michigan)

• Kathleen Brown (University of Pennsylvania), “Free, Requited, or Family Labor: ‘Free’ Labor Produce in the Antebellum United States”
• Seth Rockman (Brown University), “Innovation, Alienation, and the Russet Brogan: Plantation Provisioning and New England’s Industrial Revolution”
• Andrew Zimmerman (The George Washington University), “What’s Hidden in the Hidden Abode of Production? A Case Study from the Civil War Era”
• Comment: Konstantin Dierks (Indiana University Bloomington)

1:00-3:00 pm: Circulations from Slavery Through the Great Migration
Chair: Rachel Miller (University of Michigan)

• Jay Cook (University of Michigan), “What Phillis Wheatley Knew About Global Capitalism”
• Alison Isenberg (Princeton University), “Second-Hand Cities: Race and Region in the Antique Americana Trade, from the Civil War to Urban Renewal”
• Susan Scott Parrish (University of Michigan), “Disaster’s Public: Mediating the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927”
• Comment: Geoff Eley (University of Michigan)

3:15-5:15 pm: Twentieth-Century Enchantments
Chair: Katherine Lennard (University of Michigan)

• Nan Enstad (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Enchantment of the Corporate Person”
• Nathan Connolly (New York University), “The Strange Career of Black Liberalism”
• Elspeth Brown (University of Toronto), “’You’ve Got to be Real’: Markets and Models in the Long 1970s”
• Comment: Howard Brick (University of Michigan)

Saturday, April 2, 2016
1014 Tisch Hall

9:30-11:30 am: Wrap-Up Session with Graduate Students
This final session will include all of the Friday panelists and will be driven by graduate student questions.