2:15 to 4:00 PM – Panel 1: Secession
Moderator, Greg Afinogenov (Harvard)
Marigold Black (Sydney), “The Idea as Text: The Performance of Legitimacy in the Transition from
Imperial Dependency to an Independent American State (and Beyond)”
Sophie Hunt (Michigan), “Native American States in Transition: The United Nation of Creeks and Cherokees and the State of Muskogee, 1791-1836”
Hasan Siddiqui (Chicago), “Order and Authority in Late Mughal India”
4:00 to 4:30 PM – Coffee Break
4:30 to 6:00 PM – Public Keynote Address by Jane Burbank (NYU)
“Escaping Empire, Escaping Europe? History and Historians in Transition”
