Schedule – The History of Value in the Nineteenth Century North America

Friday, April 14, 2023

1-1:15 PM | Opening Remarks
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

1:15-2:45 PM | Panel 1 | Tangible Objects
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

Comment and Chair: Zara Anishanslin, University of Delaware
Alexandra Finley, University of Pittsburgh | “A Murder and Some Furniture: Gender, Value, and Household Objects in the Early U.S.”
Julia Lewandoski, California State University, San Marcos | “Compensating Lords and Confiscating Indigenous Lands: Seigneurial Valuation in 1850s British Quebec”
Kate Smith, University of Birmingham | “’A young Dog Puppy, remarkable for his Ugliness’: Constructing and Negotiating Value in London, 1750-1845”

2:45-3 PM | Break
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 210

3-4:30 PM | Panel 2 | Imagining Value
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

Comment and Chair: K-Sue Park, Georgetown University
Felicity Turner, Georgia Southern University | “To Remedy All Ills: Valuing Healthcare Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America”
Susanna Blumenthal, University of Minnesota | “The Value of Prayer”
Laura Edwards, Princeton University | “The Value of Writing: The Written Word and Legal Authority”

4:30 – 6 PM | Happy Hour Social
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 136 (Faculty Lounge)

9:30-11 AM | Panel 3 | Intangible Values
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

Comment and Chair: Tiffany Nichols, Princeton University
Maureen Brady, Harvard University | “The Role of ‘Value’ in Moral Nuisance Cases”
Emily Owens, Brown University| “Justice for Breonna Taylor!: Harm, Value, and Non-Indictment in the Movement for Black Lives”
Joanna Cohen, Queen Mary University of London | “Judging the Value of Suffering in the Nineteenth-Century”

11-11:15 AM | Break
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 210

11:15 AM-12:30 PM | Panel 4 | Bodies
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

Comment and Chair: Peter Wirzbicki, Princeton University
Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, University of California, Davis | “Speculative Bodies and the Gender of Value”
Bronwen Everill, Cambridge University | “Valuing ‘Wealth in People’ in the Nineteenth Century United States”

12:30-1:30 PM | Lunch
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 210

1:30-3 PM | Panel 5 | Transactions
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

Comment and Chair: Elizabeth Ellis, Princeton University
Dylan Penningroth, University of California, Berkeley | “The Shadow of the Law”
Jacob Lee, Pennsylvania State University | “Polly Spaniard’s Whiskey Establishment: Jurisdiction and the Alcohol Trade in Early Indian Territory”
Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia | “The Economic Promise of Freedom in Reconstruction America”

3-3:15 PM | Break
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 210

3:15-4 PM | Closing Remarks
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

4 PM | Conference Concludes