Day 1: February 28, 2020
All sessions on Feb. 28 take place at the University of North Florida on the third floor of Student Union West.
9:30-11 am
Contact Zones: Pirates, Ordinary Seamen, and Indigenous Peoples
Room 3804, chair: Leonardo Moreno (University of Pittsburg)
Enemigos en común en la frontera del imperio español: alianzas comerciales entre piratas e indios en Colombia (siglos XVI y XVII), Johana Barrero (University of North Florida)
Cartografías genitales, raptos y comercio sexual en las primeras exploraciones de la ‘natura’ americana, Paola Uparela (University of Florida)
‘Vermin who are the enemies of all Mankind:’ Guardacostas, Smuggling, and Piracy in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean, Andrew Rutledge (University of Michigan)
Indígenas navegantes y piratas. El caso de Paita, Antonio Jaramillo (Universidad Autónoma de México)
Piracy and Colonial Forces
Room 3806, chair: Karen Cousins (University of North Florida)
George Anson’s Voyage to the Pacific and the Defense at the Margins of the Empire, Sabrina Guerra Moscoso (Universidad San Francisco de Quito)
Pirate Attacks on the Port of Veracruz, Andrew Grant Wood (University of Tulsa)
Pirate Incursions in the South Sea and their Impact on Lima’s Defense Policy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Judith Mansilla (Florida International University)
Piratería y Guerra de Sucesión en las noticias impresas en Lima (1700-1711), Paul Firbas (Stony Brook University)
11:00 am-noon
Lunch
On your own. Student Union West has a sit-down restaurant (The Boathouse) on the second floor, and a small food court on the first floor. For all options on campus, see the UNF Dining Services website.
Noon-1:15 pm
Plenary Address 1
Room 3703 AB, welcome and introduction, John Kantner (University of North Florida) and Mariana-Cecilia Velázquez (University of Nevada-Reno)
Of Time & Sea Bandits: Shifting Facets of Pirate Studies & New Directions, Kris E. Lane (Tulane University)
1:30-3:00 pm
Representations of Piracy: Substructures of Nations and Empires
Room 3804, chair: Mariana-Cecilia Velázquez (University of Nevada-Reno)
La mirada del pirata en Espejo de paciencia de Silvestre de Balboa, Raúl Marrero-Fente (University of Minnesota)
Piracy, Discovery and the War Machine: Deleuze & Guattari and Imperial Spanish Poetry, Jason McCloskey (Bucknell University)
Piratas católicos en la Guerra de los Nueve Años: la representación de Alonso Ramírez y Raveneau de Lussan como optimus civis de sus imperios, Leonor Taiano (University of Notre Dame)
La crónica histórica y la figura del héroe pirata: el caso de las Crónicas coloniales (1921), de Ricardo Fernández Guardia, Dorde Cuvardic García (Universidad de Costa Rica)
Uncharted Waters: Race, Nations, and Empires
Room 3703AB, chair: Denise Bossy (University of North Florida)
Wako Pirates and Spaniards in the Philippines, Song I. No (Purdue University)
Sketches of the Global in Early Modern Francophone and Hispanophone Texts about Piracy in the Caribbean, Franziska Gesine Brede (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
‘Ge-Arrgh-raphy:’ South Sea Buccaneers, Mapmaking, and the English Empire, Luke Kasbarian (University of North Florida)
3:00-3:30 pm
Break
Refreshments in Room 3805
3:30-5:00 pm
Hidden Pirates of the Caribbean: An Untold Story of Piracy and Contraband
Room 3804, chair: James G. Cusick (University of Florida)
Lesser Known Privateers in Spanish America: Robert Searle, Brandon Alford (United States Army Command and General Staff College)
Piracy and the Decline of Cartagena de Indias: A Reassessment, Leonardo Moreno-Álvarez (University of Pittsburg)
‘Las dos caras de la moneda:’ Piracy and Contraband in San Francisco de Campeche during the decade 1670s, Victor A Medina Lugo (Tulane University)
‘Young, Resolute & Wicked Fellows’: The Pirates of Providence, 1700-1740, Steven C. Hahn (St. Olaf College)
Piracy and Captivity
Room 3806, chair: Andrew Rutledge (University of Michigan)
‘4 de abril de 1579, el día que topé con Francisco Drake: Don Francisco de Zárate informa al virrey de Nueva España lo sucedido en el puerto del Realejo,’ Rafael Obando Andrade (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Piracy and Women’s Testimony in Early Modern Florida, Yolanda Gamboa Tusquets (Florida Atlantic University)
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa and his Love/Hate Relationship with Enemy Pirates, Jason Hawkins (Florida Atlantic University)
Religión y escritura en dos textos acerca de Miles Philips, Rubén Sánchez-Godoy (Southern Methodist University)
5:15-6:30 pm
Plenary Address 2
Room 3803 AB, introduction: Clayton McCarl (University of North Florida)
Sospechas, preparativos, circulación y utilización de la información: actitudes de España frente a la amenaza pirata al Pacífico Sur, Ximena Urbina (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)
7:30-9:00 pm
Dinner in St. Augustine
Columbia Restaurant, 98 St. George Street. We will be seated together, but participants will pay individually on separate checks. If you plan to join us, be sure to complete the registration survey.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT OUR RESERVATION:
Our dinner reservations are at the Columbia Restaurant in St. Augustine (98 St. George Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084). Phone Number of Columbia Restaurant: (904) 824-3341
What to say at the entrance?
One reservation for 20 people is at 7:30 under the name McCarl, and another, for another 20 at 7:45 under Velazquez. Please ask to be seated with either group, depending on when you arrive and where there is still space.
Where to park? If you don’t have other arrangements for parking in St. Augustine, your easiest option is likely this garage: The Historic Downtown Parking Facility, 1 Cordova St, St. Augustine, FL 32084
Phone Number: (904) 484-5160
On-street parking is possible but can be hard to find.
Day 2: February 29, 2020
10:00 am-noon
Organizational Meeting of the Grupo de Estudio
This meeting will take place in the Dunham Building, 271 Charlotte Street (back of the Oldest House property). Free Parking: available in 272 Charlotte Street.

12:00-2:00 pm
Lunch in St. Augustine
A1A Aleworks, 1 King Street. We will be seated as a group, but participants will pay individually on separate checks. If you plan to join us, be sure to complete the registration survey.
2:00 pm
Group visit to Castillo de San Marcos
Castillo de San Marcos, 1 S Castillo Drive. Admission is $15 per person for adults, and all participants will pay individually. Admission fee is waived for students with a valid ID.
4:00 pm
Group visit to the Oldest House Museum Complex
Oldest House, 14 St. Francis Street. Admission is $10 for adults, $4 for students (with ID), and all participants will pay individually.
Acknowledgments
The Inaugural Piracy Studies Conference is a project of the Grupo de Estudio Internacional “Piratería de la Edad Moderna Temprana.” The conference organizers are Mariana-Cecilia Velázquez (University of Nevada-Reno) and Clayton McCarl (University of North Florida).
This event has received financial and in-kind support from the St. Augustine Historical Society and the following units at the University of North Florida: the Latin American and Caribbean Council; the International Studies Program; the Department of History; and the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.