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