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THURSDAY	FEBRUARY 20
4:30 P.M.	Lecture: William Freehling Connally Center, Kraft Eidman Courtroom
5:30 P.M.	Reception Connally Center, Jamail Pavillion
7:00 P.M.	Lecture: Gore Vidal LBJ School of Public Affairs
FRIDAY	FEBRUARY 21
	Connally Center, Kraft Eidman Courtroom
9:00 A.M.	Welcome: Dr. Betty Sue Flowers Director, LBJ Library and Museum Dean Richard Lariviere The University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts Dean William Powers University of Texas School of Law
9:30 A.M.	Introductory Remarks: Professor Sanford Levinson University of Texas School of Law
9:45-11:30 A.M.	Panel 1: The Purchase of Louisiana Paper 1: Thomas Jefferson, Louisiana and the Problem of the Extended Republic Professor Peter Onuf University of Virginia Corcoran Department of History Paper 2: Constitutional Issues Surrounding the Louisiana Purchase Professor Guy Seidman Radzyner School of Law The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel Discussants: Professor Jack Rakove Stanford University Department of History, Professor Sean Theriault The University of Texas at Austin Department of Government
11:45-12:45 P.M.	LUNCH
1:00-3:00 P.M.	Panel 2: The Louisiana Territory and the Civil War Paper 3: Annexation Revisited: The Jacksonian Constitution Outside the Courts Professor Mark A. Graber University of Maryland Department of Government Paper 4: The Louisana Purchase and the Shaping of the Ensuing Slavery Controversies Professor William W. Freehling Singletary Chair in the Humanities University of Kentucky Department of History Discussants: Professor David Currie University of Chicago School of Law, Professor George Forgie The University of Texas at Austin Department of History
3:15-5:15 P.M.	Panel 3: The Imperialist Moment of the 1840s Paper 5: The 1840s, Mexico, Texas, and the Southwest Professor Paul Kens Southwest Texas State University Department of Political Science Paper 6: The 1840s Professor H. W. Brands Texas A&M University Department of History Discussants: Professor Sarah Barringer Gordon University of Pennsylvania Law School, Professor Elliot West University of Arkansas Department of History
SATURDAY	FEBRUARY 22
	Connally Center, Kraft Eidman Courtroom
10:00-12:00 A.M.	Panel 4: Indigenous Populations Paper 7: American Indians and American Expansion Professor Gerald Torres University of Texas Law School Paper 8: Modes of Rule in America's Overseas Empire: the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Samoa Professor Julian Go University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Department of Sociology & Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Discussants: Professor Stuart Benjamin University of Texas Law School, Professor Rodolfo de la Garza Vice President, Tomás Rivera Policy Institute Columbia University Department of Political Science
12:15 P.M.	Luncheon Speaker: William H. Goetzmann Townes Hall, Atrium Professor William Goetzmann Jack S. Blanton, Sr. Chair in History The University of Texas at Austin Department of History
2:00-4:00 P.M.	Panel 5: Where Is the United States (and Who Is Within It)? Paper 9: Empires External and Internal: The Unincorporated Territories and the U.S. Public Lands Professor Bartholomew Sparrow The University of Texas at Austin Department of Government Paper 10: Puerto Rico’s Political Status: The Long-Term Effects of American Expansionist Discourse Dean Efren Rivera-Ramos University of Puerto Rico Law School Paper 11: Untied States: The Idea of Secession and the Law of American Imperialism Christina Burnett Princeton University Discussants: Professor Alexander Aleinikoff Georgetown University Law Center, Professor Sarah Cleveland University of Texas Law School go to top