Conference Schedule

Welcoming Remarks
Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, University of Virginia
Distinguished Scholar, SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution

Sylvia L. Hilton, Complutense University
“Global Game Changer: U.S. Independence from Spanish Perspectives”

Julia Osman, Mississippi State University
“American Nationality: A French Invention?”

Welcome
Curtis G. Viebranz, President and CEO
George Washington’s Mount Vernon

After Dinner Remarks
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, University Paris Diderot
“Revisiting the Historical Work of Jacques Godechot
                            and Robert R. Palmer, Founders of Atlantic History”

Victor Enthoven, Free University of Amsterdam
“John Paul Jones’ Friends in the Netherlands in 1779”

Munro Price, University of Bradford
“Lafayette, the Lameths and 'republican monarchy', 1789-1791”

Jean-Marie Kowalski, University of Paris IV, Sorbonne
“The Battle of the Chesapeake from the Quarterdeck”

Olivier Chaline, University of Paris IV, Sorbonne
“Season, Winds and Sea: The Improbable Route of de Grasse to the Chesapeake”

Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Bernardo de Gálvez: Friend of the American Revolution, Friend of Empire”

Patrick Villiers, Université du Littoral, Cote d’Opale
“La Fayette and the Passage of the Ship La Victoire in 1777: New Interpretations”

Paul A. Gilje, University of Oklahoma
“Ideology AND Interest: Free Trade, the League of Armed Neutrality, and the American Revolution”

Timothy Walker, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
“Atlantic Dimensions of the American Revolution: Imperial Priorities and the Portuguese Reaction to the North American Bid for Independence”

Public Discussion
“Modern Franco-American Relations”

Jonathan R. Dull, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University

Robert Crout, College of Charleston