Conference Schedule

The 2015 SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution

The Marquis de Lafayette and the European Friends of the American Revolution

George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon, Virginia
June 12-14, 2015

Friday, June 12, 2015

3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.	Registration, Bookout Reception Hall
4:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.	Session 1 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?”
6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.	Reception, Founders’ Terrace Welcome Curtis G. Viebranz, President and CEO George Washington’s Mount Vernon
8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.	Dinner, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington After Dinner Remarks Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, University Paris Diderot “Revisiting the Historical Work of Jacques Godechot and Robert R. Palmer, Founders of Atlantic History”

Saturday, June 13, 2015

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.	Continental Breakfast, Bookout Reception Hall
9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	Session 2 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”
10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Session 3 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”
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.	Lunch, Founders’ Terrace
1:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m.	Session 4 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”
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.	Session 5 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”
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.	Cocktail Reception, Elliptical Garden, Ford Orientation Center
7:00 p.m.	Dinner, Ford Orientation Center Public Discussion “Modern Franco-American Relations”

Sunday, June 14, 2015

8:00 a.m. -
9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast, Bookout Reception Hall

9:15 a.m. -
11:15 a.m.

Roundtable Discussion of Presenters

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

Robert Crout, College of Charleston

11:30 a.m.

Tour of Gristmill & Distillery

This conference is dedicated to the memory of Jacques Godechot and Robert R. Palmer, the founders of Atlantic History.

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