Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions Conference: “Andrew Jackson at 250: Race, Politics, and Culture in the Age of Jacksonian “Democracy””

Event time: 
Saturday, December 2, 2017 - 9:30am to 4:30pm
Location: 
Luce Hall, Rooms 202 and 203 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions presents a two day conference:

“Andrew Jackson at 250: Race, Politics, and Culture in the Age of Jacksonian “Democracy””

On the 250th anniversary of Andrew Jackson’s birth, the Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YCRI) invites you to a conference reassessing the “Age of Jackson” and Jacksonian “Democracy.” Join us for two days of panels, with presentations by historians and political scientists, as well as a special roundtable discussion of Andrew Jackson’s legacy.

Saturday, December 2, 2017

9:30-10:00am: Breakfast

10:00-11:30am: Panel 3. Jacksonian Political Thought Revisited (Luce 202)

  • Alex Zakaras (The University of Vermont): “Nature and the Market in Jacksonian Thought”
  • Robert S. Richard (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): “Jacksonian Populism and the Bank Question”
  • Joshua A. Lynn (Yale University): “Race and the Jacksonian Counter-Enlightenment”
  • Chair: Steven B. Smith (Yale University)

11:30-1:00pm: Lunch

1:00-2:30pm: Panel 4. Jacksonian White Male Supremacy (Luce 202)

  • Kristofer Ray (Dartmouth College): “Discourses of Indigenous Sovereignty in Jackson’s America”
  • Laurel Clark Shire (Western University): “Sentimental Racism and Sympathetic Paternalism: Feeling like a Jacksonian American”
  • Jameson Sweet (Yale University): “Native Suffrage: Race, Citizenship, and American Indians in the Midwest”
  • Chair: Ned Blackhawk (Yale University)

2:30-3:00pm: Coffee

3:00-4:30pm: Panel 5. Slavery and Antislavery in the Age of Jackson (Luce 202)

  • Matthew Mason (Brigham Young University): “Judged in His Own Age’s Balance and Found Wanting: Jackson’s Whig Critics on Slavery and Race”
  • Emily A. Owens (Brown University): “Making Violence Ordinary: Cultures of Sex and Domination in the Antebellum South”
  • Gunther W. Peck (Duke University): “Labor Abolition and the Politics of White Victimhood, 1820-1840: Rethinking the History of Working-Class Racism”
  • Chair: David W. Blight (Yale University)

4:30pm: Closing Remarks and Reception

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public