Friday, October 26:

8:30-9:00 am -- Coffee

9:00-9:15 am – Welcome and Introductions

9:15-10:15 am -- Keynote Address:

Eric Hinderaker (University of Utah) and François Furstenberg (Université de Montréal)

10:30-12:15 noon -- Panel One: Violence and Warfare in the Ohio Valley

David Preston (The Citadel), "La Bataille de la Malengueulee, 1755: New Perspectives on the French and Indian Forces at Braddock's Defeat"

Rob Harper (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point), "Government Sponsored Escalation and the Revolutionary War in the West"

Brandon Downing (University of Cincinnati).  "'Ending Kentucky's Indian Menace': How Kentucky Frontiersmen and Ohio Valley Indians Shaped War in the Northwest Territory, 1787-1815"

Comment: John W. Hall (University of Wisconsin)

12:15-1:00 pm -- Lunch

1:00-2:45pm -- Panel Two: Native American Polities and Communities

Tyler Boulware (West Virginia University), "'These Norwards or French Indians': Destabilizing the Southeastern Borderlands, 1748-1754"

Kristopher Ray (Austin Peay State University), "Cherokees and Franco-British Confrontation in the Tennessee Corridor, 1748-1754"

Patrick Bottiger (Florida Gulf Coast University), "Prophetstown, Vincennes, and the Invasion of the Miami Borderland, 1795-1825"

Commentator: Christina Snyder (Indiana University)

3:00-4:45 pm – Panel Three: The Illinois Country and the Problem of Empire

Robert Michael Morrisey (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "'Poor Inhabitants . . . in a State of Slavery': George Morgan, Trade, and Empire in the Ohio Valley Backcountry, 1765-1780"

Jacob F. Lee (University of California, Davis), "A New World?: Kinship, Power, and Empire in the Illinois Country, 1763-1778"

M. Scott Heerman (University of Maryland), "'The Manner of Execution Cannot be too Cruel': Slave Power and Imperial Authority in the Illinois Country"

Commentator: Jay Gitlin (Yale University)

Saturday, October 27, 2012:

9:00-9:30 am -- Coffee

9:30-11:30 am -- Panel Four: Merchants and Trade

William J. Campbell (California State University, Chico), "'Crocqueu . . . grande-interprete Anglois pour les Sauvages': George Croghan and Empire in the Ohio Country, 1740-1774"

Hanno Scheerer (University of Trier, Germany), "The Impact of Land Speculation on the Early Development of Ohio's Virginia Military District: A Case Study on the Speculative Partnership between Nathaniel Massie and John Graham"

Kim M. Gruenwald (Kent State University), "Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters: Another Look at Reed and Forde, Merchant Adventurers"

Lawrence B. A. Hatter (Washington State University), "'Robbery under pretext of Law': Federal Agents and the Laurentide Trade in the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution, 1799-1817"

Commentator: Catherine Cangany (University of Notre Dame)

11:30-12:15 -- Lunch

12:15-2:00 pm -- Panel Five: Families, Clans, and Kin

Natalie Inman (Cumberland University), "Diplomatic Clans: Founding Anglo-Indian Alliances During the Seven Years War"

Honor Sachs (College of Charleston), "'He Hath Become a Spanish Subject': Marriage, Divorce, and Treason in Eighteenth-Century Kentucky"

Karen Marrero (William Clements Library, University of Michigan), "'What the Indians Desired Them to Say': The Complex Roles of Detroit's French-Native Intermediaries in the Latter Eighteenth Century"

Commentator: Andrew Frank (Florida State University) 

2:15-4:00 pm -- Panel Six: Circuits of Rumor and News

Alyssa Zuercher Reichhardt (Yale University), "A War of Words: French and British Newspaper Coverage of the Ohio Valley, 1748-1763"

Susan Gaunt Stearns (Mary Baldwin College), "Rumors, Reality, and Realpolitick: Spanish Officials and the Openings of the Mississippi, 1788-1804"

Matthew Smith (Miami University, Hamilton), "'Open to All Parties, Influenced by None': Ohio Valley Print Culture and the Louisiana Conspiracy"

Commentator: Ellen Eslinger (DePaul University)