Featured Speakers for the 36th Annual Conference

Thursday evening, March 2, 2006
Opening Reception and Keynote Address

Laurent Dubois
Michigan State University

Laurent Dubois is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, where he teaches Caribbean and Atlantic History. He has published three books: Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004), the award-winning A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (2004), and Les Esclaves de la République: l’Histoire oubliée de la première émancipation, 1789-1794, (1998). He has published articles in The William and Mary Quarterly, Cultural Studies, Transition, and Annales. He is currently working on A History of the Caribbean (for Univ. of North Carolina Press) and, with John Garrigus, on Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A History in Documents (forthcoming with Bedford Press). He is also beginning research on a project on the history of religion in Haiti.

Friday, March 3, 2006
Luncheon Keynote Address

Michael Broers
Oxford University

Michael Broers was born and raised in Connecticut and educated in Ireland, Scotland and finally at Oxford University. After a career in several universities in the USA and UK, and became a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and a member of the History Faculty of Oxford University in 2004. In Fall 2003, he was a Visiting Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of five books, among them The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy, 1801-1814 (Routledge, 2002) and, most recently, The Napoleonic Empire in Italy. Cultural imperialism in a European context? (Palgrave, 2005). He is currently writing a book provisionally entitled 'The Napoleonic Vision: a regime and its agendas'.

Saturday, March 4, 2006
Closing Banquet Keynote Address

Linda Colley
Princeton University

Currently, the Shelby M.C.Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University, Linda Colley has taught and written on history and  politics  on both sides of the Atlantic. Her books include In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760 (1982), Namier(1988), Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (1992), and Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 (2002). She writes regularly for the New York Review of Books , the London Review of Books, the Nation, and the London Guardian, and has served on the Boards of the British Library, the Lewis Walpole Library, and the Yale Center for British Art. She is currently writing The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Life and Death in Global History.