Schedule - Thursday, February 8, 2024
Breakfast & introductions (9:00-9:30 am)
Guest scholar presentation #1 (9:30-10:30 am) - “The Brazilian-Baltimore Connection: A Nineteenth Century Geographical Perspective” (Alan Marcus)
Graduate workshop #1 (10:30-11:30am) - "Migrating Mariners: African American Emigration from the Chesapeake Bay to Samaná Bay, 1824" (Matthew Randolph)
Lunch (11:30-12:30pm)
Guest scholar presentation #2 (12:30-1:30pm) - "Developing a Baltimore Commercial Presence in Brazil: An Early 19th-Century Pernambuco Connection" (Laura Jarnagin Pang)
Graduate workshop #2 (1:30-2:30pm) - "The Rise and Fall of James Birckhead, Baltimorean Merchant Established in Rio de Janeiro, 1817-1850" (Christian Robles-Baez)
Coffee & Tea Break (2:30-3:00pm)
Guest scholar presentation #3 (3:00-4:00pm) - “Sweetness and Flour: Antebellum Baltimore's Pursuit of the Brazilian Bread Market” (Daniel Rood)
Keynote lecture (4:00-5:00pm) "Comparative Urban Histories of Slavery and Freedom in the Age of Abolition" (Mariana Dantas)